Tobacco companies are also no longer allowed to advertise on television or in magazines, and health professionals continually stress smoking tobacco as a cause of lung cancer
Edmund de Waal, Cupboard Cargo, 1999 installation at High Cross House, Devon
Their responsibilities also include banning tobacco advertisements and sponsorships, protecting people from exposure to harmful tobacco smoke, requiring health warnings on tobacco packaging and even increasing tobacco taxes
One of the underlying reasons may involve genetic changes that lead to tumor formation, which chronic inflammation from smoking produces
Several years ago, marketing companies hired by the tobacco industry would hire attractive young women to go into bars in the Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia and give out free menthol cigarettes, as part of the industrys longtime marketing of that product to the urban market