William Atkins
Thursday, 04 June 2009 19:21
Opinion and Analysis
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Sometimes, in the 1950s and 1960s, the tobacco industry and their advertisers used real-life actors, cowboys, and other famous people to advertise their sticks of death, which were not known to be so dangerous in those days. Tobacco studies in the 1960s began to show the dangers of smoking.
The tobacco advertisers also advertise directly to children with fun-filled cartoon characters.
But, in the end, all they are trying to do is make a huge profit for their company. And, they have succeeded--so far. However, many people are finally getting wise to them and their products.
If you are a smoker or believe smoking will not harm you, then you don’t have to believe one word that I say in this article.
However, read about what others say about cigarettes. I’m going to do a Google search of “Cigarette Health” and give you the first five comments I get from organizations.
Here they are:
1.
Healthy-Heart-Guide.org:
“If you asked 100 people to quickly name one thing that's bad for your health, a vast majority of them would undoubtedly say smoking. Cigarette smoking health effects are widely known, yet millions of people continue to smoke despite all of the risks involved. FACT: Smoking kills over 400,000 Americans each year, and millions worldwide!”
2.
American Council on Science and Health:
“This report examines the irreversible effects of cigarette smoking on various organ systems and challenges the notion that a few years of exposure to smoking will have no lasting adverse consequences. Our hope is to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit by appealing to their common sense and better judgment, thereby allowing them to choose for themselves not to smoke. We will not recite the familiar litany of smoking-related health problems such as emphysema, cancer, and heart disease. Rather, we will show that smoking cigarettes for as few as five years can have a permanent effect on the lungs, the heart, the eyes, the throat, the urinary tract, the digestive organs, the bones and joints, and the skin—even if the smoker quits.”
[The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web page didn’t come up, might be temporarily down.]
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