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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.

Media

Reuters. “Scientists describe problems in Philip Morris e-cigarette experiments”

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Like the tobacco industry, e-cigarette manufacturers are targeting children

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Pakistan diluted proposed tobacco health warnings after Philip Morris, BAT lobbying

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