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Essay on Smoking: A Glamorized Deadly Addiction
Smoking: An Introduction
Smoking has in the past been portrayed as an elegant or even glamorous thing to do. The tobacco industry has ‘informed’ teenagers that smoking is an adult choice, knowing that this would only encourage children and teenagers to take up smoking. In the United States nowadays, more than forty six million Americans are addicted to cigarettes. More people have died due to cigarette smoking than from narcotic drugs, World Wars II, and I and the Vietnam War combined (Bailey, 1996). The annual death toll for cigarette smoking is more than four hundred thousand Americans a year, and is the number-one preventable cause of death in the United States. Guy Smith, a Phillip Morris Tobacco Company executive, claims that their research shows that advertising is the top reason people start smoking (Bailey, 1996). Most people will argue that this is not true since the do not like to be “sold” and do not like to admit advertising affects them. In spite of their claims, more Americans buy brand name and greatly advertised products than any other country in the world (Bailey, 1996). Smoking in the mass media is advertised and portrayed in such a way that it is appealing to the public however does not warn about its harmful effects. The media also targets children and teenagers with cartoon advertisements and by putting them in areas that are fascinating the young minds. Tobacco companies recognize the harmful effects of their products, although deny that their advertisements play any part in creating a desire to smoke. William Hobbs, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Chief Executive Officer, explains that advertising played no part in encouraging people to smoke, so therefore he has no responsibility to urge them not to smoke (Bailey, 1996)...........
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