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Tobacco: Big Tobacco
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The executives of Big Tobacco have stopped insisting that tobacco is not addictive, but have not stopped making a killing from the deadly addictive quality of their product. The steady demand, particularly in the developing world where regulation doesn't reach, breeds a booming business in smuggling, as well as aggressive marketing schemes targeting the poor, minorities, and children. International treaties and successful lawsuits have helped to slow the malignant spread of tobacco in the United States and other developed nations, but the industry remains one of the largest and most influential in national and international politics.
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On Kick Butts Day, kids turn the tables on Big Tobacco with events that range from "They put WHAT in a cigarette?" demonstrations to mock-funerals for the Marlboro Man to rallies at state capitols. Activities in Texas include (all events are on March 28 unless otherwise noted):
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Since anyone supporting any goal of Big Tobacco could be considered their ?ally? in some sense, the Antismokers are on reasonably safe legal ground. However, as noted earlier in the chapters on Language and Fallacious Argumentation, lumping the word ally into the same phrase as ?front group? ties the two together in the listeners? minds so as to give a very deliberate false appearance.
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In Salado, students at Salado Intermediate School and other community members will declare "War on Tobacco." Youth and faculty on campus and around town will be wearing camouflage clothing to show their outrage about Big Tobacco's lies and manipulation. Time: All Day Location: 3602 South W.W White Road, San Antonio. Contact Stephanie Hood (254) 624-1008
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- With today's resounding defeat of Proposition 28 the voters of California have once again handed Big Tobacco a Big Loss. Sustaining the 50-cent tax per pack of cigarettes will decrease youth smoking, maintain th
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Actually, Crusading groups today are far more powerful than Big Tobacco. In addition to the emotive power supplied by images of threats to our children, the power of hundreds of thousands of kids working for them in school programs powered by scholar-ships and prizes, and the power of TV ads, they ... have the pure raw power of money beyond a drug-lord?s wildest dreams.
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