They need you as replacement smokers for their longtime customers who keep dying on them! And that includes more than 37,000 Canadians who die every year in from smoking related diseases. Check out stupid.ca
The tobacco industry pays actors big money to smoke their brands in their movies. It’s a way to advertise and attract youth who look up to these actors. Check out this Canadian site www.smokefreemovies.ca and the U.S. site smoke free movies for more information.
Help to get the message out. If you are in high school talk to your principal about getting a Healthy High School Grant or other supports offered through the health unit for students to design their own messages and events to promote tobacco-free living. You can expose the tobacco industry and show how it works so hard to distort the truth about smoking, dip, and chew and instead sell the use of thier products as a sign of being cool and mature.
It’s time to take a closer look at what’s really going on. Click the links below to see what other teens and concerned citizens have a discovered about the tobacco industry marketing to “hook ‘em young, hook ‘em for life.”
For years the tobacco industry publicly denied that they target youth. But their own internal documents have a whole different story to tell. We call it lies, manipulation and deceit. What would you call it…?
