...Purpose The business research that I chose for my paper is the reinforcement of smoking and drinking and how tobacco marketing strategies link themselves with alcohol in the United States. The reason I chose this topic is because I see this issue increasing within our society. The purpose of this research is to investigate tobacco companies’ awareness about concurrent use of tobacco and alcohol, their marketing strategies linking cigarettes with alcohol, and the benefits tobacco companies pursued from these marketing activities. Problems under Investigation Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature deaths in the United States, accounting for more than 440,000 deaths yearly. Alcohol consumption is the third-leading cause of deaths in the nation. Each year, approximately 79,000 deaths are caused by excessive alcohol use. The concurrent use of cigarettes and alcohol further increases risks for certain cancers, such as cancer of the mouth, throat, and esophagus. In addition, the use of both tobacco and alcohol makes it more difficult to quit either substance. The three basics issues are under investigation: 1. What tobacco companies knew about the association between drinking and smoking, especially about smokers’ drinking behaviors 2. How tobacco and alcohol companies developed cross promotions featuring cigarettes and alcohol 3. How tobacco companies linked cigarettes with alcohol in their marketing activities and the benefits they expected...
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...chemicals are known to cause cancer and other diseases.(http://chealth.canoe.com, February 8, 2017) Why is the government letting the sales of tobacco continue? Smoking costs nearly $300 billion a year to the United States alone.(https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco, February 9, 2017) This includes the money that is needed to pay for treatment and the medical care that is needed for the smoking patient. Smoking has been an issue since the starting of the New World. Smoking should be made illegal in the United States, because it is the leading cause of deaths, as well as it is a problem to our economy....
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...sense to sell tobacco in a pharmacy that promotes a healthy lifestyle? Most people would say no. In 2014, CVS Pharmacy announced to stop the sales of any tobacco related products. Focusing more on getting people to quit rather than starting. CVS pharmacy one of the top leading pharmacies wants to set an example for other pharmacies. Would consumers want their child to picking up prescriptions and turn around to see the same pharmacy selling tobacco? Smoking is the leading cause of deaths in the US. “Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is about one in five deaths.” (CDC, 2014) Pharmacies around the United States should ban tobacco because of the negative side effects it can do one’s body, but also by banning tobacco at the local pharmacies will bring attention to why smoking is bad for the health. Health before wealth. It’s safe to say any company will do anything to raise sales, even sell tobacco while promoting a healthy lifestyle. CVS pharmacy raked in about $2 billion dollars annually from tobacco sales. In addition, the company revenue rose up to 9.7%. At least, this didn’t have a negative impact on the pharmacy sales. On the other hand, the front store did feel a little bit of change in the sales, but in overall the no tobacco in stores helped the company. With 900 walk-in clinics most CVS pharmacies offer quick easy clinics. “More than 70-90% of smokers who try to quit will relapse into regular tobacco use with the...
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...nearly fifty years now we have learned many new things about tobacco. The effects and problems that it brings us such as birth defects, heart disease, stroke, and rheumatoid arthritis to name a few. In this article she explores all the reasons why people shouldn't smoke and the evolution of cigarettes. Dr. Mazzucco has supported claim on the problems and health risks that smoking causes. Smoking or tobacco use has been part of history for centuries, and in the last fifty years we have become exceptionally savvy on the topic. Dr. Mazzucco uses rhetoric and develops a sense of urgency by stating that it's the...
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...cigarettes in Australia Introduction: Recently, there has been a new trend in the tobacco industry in Australian society due to the increased prices of cigarettes, mainly for the reason that “with more than 3.1 million people still smoking today, tobacco still being the leading cause of death by a wide margin… “ (Scollo & Winstanley, p.xiii, 2008). Therefore, this report will illustrate the market structure of Australia tobacco industry, and then make analysis about the price chances on the demand and supplies for cigarettes. The third and the fourth part of the report are about the impacts of this change and some government policies for the tobacco industry, respectively. The market structure: Table 1: Tobacco companies operating in Australia: summary table for 2006-07 | BATA | PMA | ITA | Total revenue ($m) | 1476.7 | 623.3 | 386.5 | Net profit after tax ($m) | 410.7 | 172.6 | 2.7 | Shareholders’ funds ($m) | 632.6 | 403.4 | 25.1 | Total assets ($m) | 2962.1 | 627.5 | 176.7 | Number of employees | >110019 | 691 | 299* | Approximate market share in Australia (%) | 4619 | 34* | 1820 | * Figure for 2006 ** Figure assumed on the basis of market share reported by BATA and ITA, and assuming that a small percentage of the Australian market is accounted for by imported brands. Source: The BRW 1000, BAT website, BATA website, Imperial Tobacco Group Website. The tobacco industry in Australia has been considered as a subset of the global industry and its...
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...American Cancer Society: Advocating for the Family Smoke Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA) 2009. Abstract On June 22, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA). This Act gave the FDA authority to regulate the distribution, manufacture and sale of tobacco to the public in the United States. The American Cancer Society and many others believe that the enactment of an effective national tobacco control policy is a necessary first step in reducing youth and adult smoking, controlling the tobacco industry, and significantly reducing tobacco- related disease and death. Before this day tobacco products were unregulated by the federal government. This paper will discuss the Act and the ACS strong support of this Act, as well as some of its supporters and opposers. My interest group is the American Cancer Society. One of the organizations priority issues is to prevent cancer. They work with lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and rally communities to join the fight. Many people think of cancer as a purely medical or scientific issue, but it is just as much a political issue. Every day in the news we hear of legislators introducing bills, passing laws and allocating funds that affect people with cancer and their families. Even clinical trials and health insurance all involve legislation. As a community-based organization the ACS unites millions of people...
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...com/quotes/calvin_coolidge_414555?src=t_aloneAaron Taylor Mrs. Turner English 1 25 February 2018 Tobacco companies should be blamed for teen smoking because they advertise the product, sell the product, and make the product. INTRO/ 1 PARAGRAPH Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking. Loni Anderson. Tobacco companies should be blamed for teen smoking because they advertise the product. Have you ever been watching a family friendly television show with your family and a tobacco commercial pops up? This is exactly why some teens smoke. The image stays in their mind because of a catchy catchphrase, the colors are unique, or the logo sears its way into their thought process. This way it is all that they would think about. Then they would want to know what it is like to smoke. They try it, and get addicted. The nicotine temporarily forces...
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...conventional smoking cessation approaches wether it’s the use of nicotine gum,counseling, or behavior modification they often look outside the mainstream motivated by the hope that alternative medicine might finally deliver them from a life cluttered with cigarette packs and tarnished by nicotine-stained teeth. Background of the Study Smoking remains a pediatric epidemic with so many adolescents stubbornly refusing to quit. This epidemic is predicted to kill 250 million children and adolescents who are alive today, a third of whom live in developing countries.Tobacco is addictive, carcinogenic and deadly. Analysis has shown that a tobacco leaf contains about 1,000 chemical substances. The smoke carries more than 4,000 chemically different compounds, mostly harmful to man. Tobacco is known or probable cause of some 25 different diseases for lung cancer, bronchitis and Emphysema it is a major cause. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there are 1.1 billion smokers in the world at the beginning of this decade and it is one-third of world’s adult population. Four million people died yearly from tobacco related diseases throughout the world. WHO estimates that the figure will rise to 10million by the year 2030 that’s one death every three seconds. Help is available through treatment methods that involve a combination of behavioral treatment and pharmacotherapy, telephone helplines, national and international tobacco-free days and...
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...The tobacco industry continues to abuse the ethics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to change their public image, whilst also attempting to achieve their goals. This is evident in the ways the industry manipulates data and targets youth smokers. This could be characterised by the analysis of the transparency, dignity and citizenship principles of the Global Business Standards Codex (GBSC). The manipulation of data by the tobacco industry expresses the abuse of the transparency principle, demonstrating their involvement in deception. The tobacco industry has utilised its economic power, political influence, marketing and manipulation of the media to discredit scientific research and, lobby governments to propagate the sale and distribution of its deadly product (Friedman 2009). According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the tobacco industry has utilised their power to undermine tobacco control through inappropriate relationships with staff, to discourage initiatives, and using front groups for indirect influence. In a historic judgement, United States (US) District Judge Gladys Kessler, ordered tobacco makers to buy newspaper advertisements detailing adverse health effects in smoking. Justice Kessler in her judgement blamed the tobacco companies of suppressing research, destroying documents, distorting the truth about low-tar and light cigarettes to encourage smokers to switch, instead of quitting, and abused the legal system in order to make profit with disregard...
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...6_12 January 02, 2013 Three Ways That Cigarette Ad’s Hook Kids Smoking is a bad habit. It causes lung cancer, depression, and is addictive. In order to survive, tobacco manufacturers need to continue to recruit new cigarette smokers. More than 80% of adult smokers started before they turned 18 and by that time more than half of them were already smoking daily. We know that kids feel peer pressure from other kids in their everyday lives. But the teens and adults in cigarette advertising may be one of the most influential peer groups of all. As they move into their teens, kids often feel insecure about their appearance and their popularity. Cigarette ads use these insecurities to make empty promises. Ads give teens the message that smoking can help them become attractive, desirable, and independent when the reality is quite different. Smoking can cause bad breath and yellow teeth, isolate teens from largely non-smoking peers, and possibly lead to a deadly, lifelong habit. Images such as the Marlboro Man equate smoking with a macho ruggedness that is appealing to men and boys. This theme mirrors the pressures many boys face to be “tough”. Boys may believe that smoking will give them the aura of coolness they are searching for. Tobacco companies have specifically targeted women and girls for many years by associating specific brands with slimness. In fact, cigarette advertising often depicts smoking as a weight management tool. This plays into the cultural pressures to...
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...Ban on Tobacco Ads by the Government of India An article titled: Ethics in Business was written between 1998 - 2001 and finally published in February 6, 2001. This article was written about a tobacco organization called India Tobacco Company (ITC) Philip Morris, found in India. 1. Arguments in favour of the ban on tobacco advertising in India Government, acting as the manager of the entire country has the responsibility to protect its citizens against any inappropriate behaviour. In 2001, India launches arguments in favour of the ban on tobacco advertising in the country. Fights between ethical and commercial issues are usually very challenging. The company (ITC) spent much money sponsoring many cultural events which at first sight was promoting...
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...The Suing of Tobacco Companies Try to imagine six million people. Six million people are equivalent to the number of Jewish people who died in the holocaust. Six million people are equivalent to five times the number of Americans who have died in all the wars combined. As a society this number is viewed as outrageous and unacceptable, yet every single year six million people die from tobacco related illnesses and for some reason this number is not seen as ridiculous when these deaths are attributed to tobacco related illnesses as when they are due to war and genocide. How can any substance that produces such mass death ever be distributed and produced legally? Well, many have begun to think the same way and have embarked on the long and arduous journey to attempt to sue tobacco distributers. But these large companies have fought back with a vengeance, and so the debate has arisen whether or not people should be able to sue big tobacco companies. People not only have the right to sue, but should sue tobacco companies for a multitude of lawless acts, for pain and suffrage, and as well as for the economic losses many have suffered. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of big tobacco companies is my beloved uncle. He tragically passed away three years ago from gun disease. My uncle Anthony had been an avid chewer since he was 16 years old. At a very early age he had become a slave to his addiction to chewing tobacco, this addiction ended his life. With the passing...
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...Economically and culturally smoking is considered to be a “norm” within society. The government has policies on cigarettes that try to help reduce smoking, but in an effort to make more revenue the taxes that are placed on cigarettes are not so high that consumer usage will drastically decline and affect government revenue. The government has imposed quotas and tariffs on cigarettes to help regulate the importation of them. A country like the United States has a high border tariff, which the government likes, because its economic level of exporting is high. Countries that are considered to be third-world or developing nations tend to have low or no border tariffs on tobacco. By placing a tariff on tobacco, consumers lose, but the government earns income from it in the form of taxes. Quotas on the other hand, take some of what the consumers lose and give it to the suppliers who are fortunate enough to have their product shipped as part of the quota. For example, the few tobacco farmers in the United States who are granted quotas by the government earn a lot of money mainly because they have no shipping cost – government pays for their shipping cost. The government knows that cigarettes are a bad commodity but since the government makes money off of it, taxes are put in place. The taxes are not only put in place for the government to make money but an effort to reduce smoking, particularly amongst young people (MBN, 9). Young people are targeted the most because studies have...
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...Alan Kerstetter ACCTG 404 Tobacco Industry Analysis Part 1: Analysis of the Tobacco Industry Using Porter’s 5 Forces Framework By using Porter’s Five Forces Framework I will discuss five basic competitive forces within the tobacco industry. The threat of potential new entrants, the bargaining power of suppliers, the bargaining power of buyers, the threat of substitutes, and the extent of competitive rivalry will all be addressed in this analysis. 1. New Entrants The barriers to entry in the tobacco industry are initially low and it is easy for small local and regional companies to enter into the market, but the barriers to enter the market nationally are very high. The economies at scale in manufacturing, distribution costs, and marketing at the national level make it very difficult for start-up companies to enter into the national market. There are substantial costs in raising the capital needed to build manufacturing facilities that can mass-produce tobacco products at the national level. Also, the costs of packaging goods such as cigarettes, at a mass level can generate high costs. Brand identity can also pose a barrier to entry for new entrants. Advertising restrictions imposed on electronic media by the U.S. government make it hard for any new entrant to gain brand awareness and also make it difficult for current top players in the market to increase their brand awareness. While many companies once relied on brand incentives in order to increase...
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...A Fire in the Global Village: Teaching Ethical Reasoning and Stakeholder Interests Utilizing Tobacco Lucien J. Dhooge Sue and John Staton Professor of Law Journal of Legal Studies Education Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 95–125, Winter / Spring 2012 [T]is a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.( Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), quoted in Philip J. Hilts, Smokescreen 185 (1996)) I. Introduction Tobacco has been an agricultural staple from the time of the first recorded European encounter with the plant in the fifteenth century.2 The pervasive nature of its cultivation and consumption has made tobacco one of the most profitable crops in world agricultural history.3 World production is estimated at thirteen billion pounds annually, originating in more than one hundred countries.4 This production has flourished, in part, due to the demand for cigarettes, the leading form of tobacco consumed in the global marketplace. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 1.2 billion people over the age of fifteen are regular cigarette smokers.5 In developed countries, 35 percent of men and 22 percent of women smoke cigarettes on a regular basis.6 In developing countries, 50 percent of men and 9 percent of women smoke cigarettes on a regular basis.7 Globally, smokers consume 5.5 trillion cigarettes every year, which translates into a consumption rate of one thousand...
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