cco products."(Elders 1994) "Increasingly, tobacco companies market their products through promotional activities that reach youth."(Elders 1994) "Cigarette advertisers liken their products to personal success, sex appeal, and beauty. The ads infer that smoking makes men daring, courageous, and manly. For woman, it enhances feminine charm."(Feighery 1992)"The income produced by the tobacco farming and cigarette manufacturing is regenerated throughout the state economy."(Robertson 1995) Even though it is hard to believe, we are helping the tobacco companies by putting money into the company because the Tobacco Company is so big that it effects the economy. "Weoperate in average-size farm, and we put about $1 million each year into the local economy in the farm of wages and buying goods and services to operate the business."(Robertson 1995) That's not all we are paying for due to smokers. "Health care expenditures caused directly by smoking totaled $50 billion in 1993, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."(Mccuen 1997) If tobacco companies closed down a lot of people will be out of work. "Some industries like Philip Morris has up to 152,000 employees."(Marketguide 1999) Which there is a lot of companies like Philip Morris. The world is basically run be tobacco. "The world consumed 5,342,991,000,000 cigarettes during the year, almost as many as in 1990, the year of peak consumption."(Britannica 1998) With that much sales around the world, just think of how much power and control the tobacco companies has over people. For me personally, that is too much power for anyone to have.Banning smoke will benefit the people in the long run. It will give the people a better chance at a healthy life and a ling one. The environment will be a lot cleaner due to less pollution from the tobacco smoke; the nonsmokers will be better off as well from this. But for the money and the economy is another story. The...
