By marketing their products in ways that appeal to teens - trying to make their packaging look more like candy is one way that they try to encourage teens to smoke.
i read in books that over 1 quarter of people die of tobacco use,though it may not seem a lot , Illinois isn't like California or Texas , it is a very small state for that many people to die
Tobacco kills an estimated 5.4 million people every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), a current or former smoker dies every 6.5 seconds, If this is true, then 13,293 people die every day from tobacco. Note: These are based on smoking tobacco, so these statistics exclude any other form of tobacco use.
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Positive social effects are often subtle and unnoticed (inclusivity in a group, social connectedness, or increase in approval by peers), but encourage future use. Negative social consequences (peer disapproval of use, smell, lack of motivation), maybe dismissed or associated with other causes.
Relational Aggression is "A type of emotional violence whereby individuals use relationships to harm others. It includes the Aggressor, Bystander, & Target. Commonly used by tween & teen girls.
There are many ways the media influences teen tobacco use. One way is modeling. If a celebrity uses tobacco, teens may see it as 'cool' and want to do it. If they see celebrities eschewing tobacco use, they may think smoking is bad and not want to do it. Another way is exposure. Merely being exposed to images of people smoking may increase a teen's desire to smoke (even if it is not someone they admire). Any way the media can make smoking seem cool or not cool will affect teen tobacco use.
Because they are paid to do so by the tobacco companies, who make billions of dollars selling tobacco products.
Companies promote these through the use of advertising, not so much as before due to heavy regulation. Alcohol is still advertised on television, whereas tobacco is not anymore. Tobacco companies do not promote the USE OF tobacco short of selling it. Commercials on television advertising alcohol now almost all include "please enjoy responsibly" as well.
No. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) strongly prohibits the use of tobacco and is most certainly not affiliated with any tobacco companies.
so the nicitein goes stait into your blood sream
They will offer you a low introductory interest rate which will encourage you to use your credit card.
The use of tobacco goes back to the 1700’s and the modern tobacco industry is one of the most powerful in the United States. They own companies like Pepsi and other things. People have to want to quit and unless they do they will keep using. Since the 1950’s tobacco use is down, but I don’t think it will ever be gone.
Yes, through a nicotine saliva test. Many insurance companies will ask you to take this test to prove you don't smoke, or use smokeless tobacco.
Tobacco companies put warning labels on products. They use to not have warning labels. Tobacco companies are also putting out disturbing commercials that you may have seen durring the 2012 Super Bowl commercials. They are to the point now of trying to intimidate tobacco users rather than saying its the cool thing to do like they may have done in say the 50's
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They grew tobacco in the colonies. The tobacco had to be harvested by hand.
The only thing that tobacco use will give is Cancer. This can be used to spread awareness.