The tobacco industry has declared war on public health. A cigarette is the only consumer product which, when consumed as indicated, kills. Tobacco is a powerfully addictive substance and the tobacco industry has subverted science, public health and political processes to sell a product that addicts its consumers before killing them.
Available data shows that two thirds of today's smokers started in their teen years.
Far from being a bunch of tobacco leaves rolled into paper tubes, a cigarette is a highly engineered product designed to addict and kill. The deception in this casting is that it leaves the tobacco industry's activities and practices completely out of the equation. It assumes that people make decisions in a state of vacuum, completely uninfluenced by their environment including industry advertising and marketing. They make you believe that if you smoke, you're going to be sexy, attractive, successful, accepted by your peers, rocking, and macho, cool and sassy. Research indicates that the decision to smoke is affected by tobacco industry promotion.