TakeAPart: British American Tobacco in Argentina

British American Tobacco is Marketing Products to Kids in Argentina

Tobacco companies cannot stay in business unless kids get hooked on tobacco.

Governments must enact and enforce policies mandated by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to protect kids from the aggressive marketing tactics of tobacco companies. Share now to stop British American Tobacco from marketing to kids in Argentina!

How British American Tobacco Markets Products to Kids

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.

That’s because kids are more susceptible to cigarette advertising and marketing than adults. The vast majority of all smokers begin their addictive habit before they reach age 18, and almost nobody tries smoking for the first time after 18. In other words, if large numbers of kids did not try smoking and go on to become regular users, the tobacco companies eventually would not have enough adult customers to make staying in business worthwhile.

In Argentina, investigations into British American Tobacco efforts to market to kids have uncovered advertising and product placement immediately surrounding primary and secondary schools.

Resources

Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Technical Report on Tobacco Marketing at the Point-of-Sale in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Product Display, Advertising, and Promotion around Primary and Secondary Schools. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; October 2016. PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Tobacco Company Quotes on Marketing to Kids PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Smoking and Kids PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Tobacco Companies Cannot Survive Unless Kids Smoke PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Technical Report on Flavored Cigarettes at the Point-of-Sale in Latin America: Availability and Marketing around Primary and Secondary Schools in Five Countries. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; June 2017. PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Informe de investigación: Marketing de productos de tabaco en los puntos de venta de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Fundacion Interamericana del Corazon-Argentina; Octubre 2016. PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Sabor que Mata: Estrategias de la industria tabacalera para atraer nuevos consumidores en America Latina a traves de los cigarrillos saborizados. Fundacion Interamericana del Corazon-Argentina; Junio 2017. PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Sabor que Mata: Hoja informativa. Fundacion Interamericana del Corazon-Argentina; Agosto 2017. PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Technical Report on Tobacco Marketing at the Point-of-Sale in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Product Display, Advertising, and Promotion around Primary and Secondary Schools. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; October 2016. PDF Icon -  this link goes to a PDF

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