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.
Tobacco advertising featuring prominent sports and entertainment figures project an image of tobacco use as glamorous, fun, healthy, sophisticated and wealthy. In countries where advertising bans are beginning to emerge more subtle product placement in movies and music videos continue to send these messages to young people. By the time people find out, it is often too late The threat concerns us all The tobacco industry acts as a global force sparing no nations and peoples. There are no true economic or public health arguments in favour of tobacco as it kills human beings and saps national treasuries. Tobacco has killed four million people this year.