Question

Hello, please assist with the following:

Do you believe statements by tobacco companies that their advertising is not aimed at getting kids to smoke? What about vaping? Please explain.

Answer 1

Ans) evidence that exposure to e-cigarette adverts might influence children's perceptions of smoking tobacco cigarettes, reducing their perceived harm of occasional smoking. These results suggest the potential for e-cigarette adverts to undermine tobacco control efforts by reducing a potential barrier (ie, beliefs about harm) to occasional smoking.

- At the same time as they deny marketing to kids, major tobacco companies vigorously oppose reasonable efforts to make it more difficult for kids to obtain cigarettes, such as raising tobacco excise taxes, requiring that all tobacco products be sold from behind the counter, forbidding sales of single tobacco products or “kiddie packs” (e.g. single sticks of little cigars) or prohibiting sales of tobacco products via the Internet or through the mail. Defendants continue price promotions for premium brands which are most popular with teens.”
- The cigarette companies are addicted to underage smoking. About ninety percent of all regular smokers begin smoking at or before age 18, and hardly anybody tries their first cigarette outside of childhood.

- In other words, if kids stopped smoking, the cigarette companies market of smokers would significantly shrink.
But each day, about 1,900 kids try smoking for the first time and more than 250 additional kids become
regular daily smokers, largely due to tobacco company marketing efforts