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Philip Morris International is Using Young Social Media Influencers to Market Tobacco Products

Reuters exposes how Philip Morris International has aggressively marketed their IQOS heated tobacco product on Instagram and other social media platforms, reaching millions of young people across the globe.

Ashes To Ashes: How British American Tobacco Avoids Taxes in Low and Middle Income Countries

Support government investigations into British American Tobacco for tax avoidance.

Tell British American Tobacco to pay the tax they owe

The SA Revenue Service says it is owed R143m by the local arm of British American Tobacco as a result of tax fraud and evasion. Join the campaign to demand BAT stop evading taxes in South Africa.

Where There’s Smoke – Tobacco Advertising on Social Media

Tobacco companies are secretly paying social media influencers to flood your newsfeed with images of their tobacco products.

Philip Morris International’s Newest Marketing Ploy

Philip Morris International – the giant tobacco company – announced in September 2017 that it had established the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, with funding of $80 million per year over the next 12 years. This foundation is part of Philip Morris’s campaign to portray itself as part of the solution to the global tobacco epidemic, which kills more than 7 million people worldwide each year.

Urge the ad industry to #QuitBigTobacco

If you work with Big Tobacco or its agents, you’re helping this industry do its deadly work to kill 7 million people every year. It’s time to Quit Big Tobacco. Sign the #QuitBigTobacco pledge.

Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets – Big Tobacco Near Schools

Tobacco companies cannot stay in business unless kids get hooked on tobacco. Referring to youth as “replacement smokers,” the world’s largest tobacco companies are targeting kids with special advertising and promotions, tobacco products designed to appeal to youth, and product placement near primary and secondary schools across the globe.

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