Factors and influences that promote teen smoking.
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Research by Harvard Professor.
British American Tobacco is planning an extraordinary internet campaign to drive unwitting young consumers to bars and clubs where it promotes its cigarettes, according to a leaked company memo. Article explains, and provides the memo.
Summarizes research showing that tobacco ad spending has not decreased since the tobacco industry agreed to stop targeting youth; examines where the ad budget goes.
Article in scientific journal examines how R. J. Reynolds designed a cigarette to appeal to young starters.
Essay comments on RJ Reynolds' Joe Camel advertising campaign.
Scientific paper finds cigarette advertising is a stronger influence on teen smoking than other factors.
Marketing professor finds that teens are more likely to be influenced by strategic tobacco advertising than adults.
Article in Salon magazine. "Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth."
Britain's biggest tobacco company was so concerned that it would lose market share to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin that it attempted to market a 'rebellious' image for cigarettes to make them more attractive to youngsters.
Research measures whether tobacco advertising and promotion increases the likelihood that youths will begin smoking.
Quotes compiled by MASCOT, the Multicultural advocates for social change on tobacco.
Research finds the tobacco industry has detailed pictures of the values and aspirations of smokers as young as 15 years.
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BAT (British American Tobacco) hands out free cigarettes to teenagers at sports events in Africa, a BBC investigation finds.
New England Journal of Medicine study finds that a 1998 tobacco industry promise not to market to teens has had little effect; advertising for youth brands of cigarettes in youth-oriented magazines has not decreased.
(July 16, 2001)
Study concludes that cigarette ads lead young people to identify smoking with popularity and relaxation, and these associations are stronger than any perceived risk picked up from anti-smoking ads.
(June 11, 2001)
Brown and Williamson Tobacco engaged a marketing research firm to look at the potential smoking habits of children as young as 5, according to internal company documents. A judge said Brown and Williamson "blatantly abused" attorney-client privilege to keep these documents secret.
(March 07, 1998)
The nation's largest tobacco company used pollsters through the 1970s and 1980s to learn more about teens' smoking attitudes.
(December 15, 1996)
Article on recent tobacco industry tactics to recruit young customers, such as cartoon characters in cigarette ads, rock music promotions, and making cigarettes easily available to youth.
(July 01, 1992)
Research by Harvard Professor.
Article in Salon magazine. "Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth."
Article in scientific journal examines how R. J. Reynolds designed a cigarette to appeal to young starters.
British American Tobacco is planning an extraordinary internet campaign to drive unwitting young consumers to bars and clubs where it promotes its cigarettes, according to a leaked company memo. Article explains, and provides the memo.
Britain's biggest tobacco company was so concerned that it would lose market share to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin that it attempted to market a 'rebellious' image for cigarettes to make them more attractive to youngsters.
Research measures whether tobacco advertising and promotion increases the likelihood that youths will begin smoking.
Scientific paper finds cigarette advertising is a stronger influence on teen smoking than other factors.
BAT (British American Tobacco) hands out free cigarettes to teenagers at sports events in Africa, a BBC investigation finds.
Essay comments on RJ Reynolds' Joe Camel advertising campaign.
Marketing professor finds that teens are more likely to be influenced by strategic tobacco advertising than adults.
Quotes compiled by MASCOT, the Multicultural advocates for social change on tobacco.
Summarizes research showing that tobacco ad spending has not decreased since the tobacco industry agreed to stop targeting youth; examines where the ad budget goes.
Research finds the tobacco industry has detailed pictures of the values and aspirations of smokers as young as 15 years.
[PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine study finds that a 1998 tobacco industry promise not to market to teens has had little effect; advertising for youth brands of cigarettes in youth-oriented magazines has not decreased.
(July 16, 2001)
Study concludes that cigarette ads lead young people to identify smoking with popularity and relaxation, and these associations are stronger than any perceived risk picked up from anti-smoking ads.
(June 11, 2001)
Brown and Williamson Tobacco engaged a marketing research firm to look at the potential smoking habits of children as young as 5, according to internal company documents. A judge said Brown and Williamson "blatantly abused" attorney-client privilege to keep these documents secret.
(March 07, 1998)
The nation's largest tobacco company used pollsters through the 1970s and 1980s to learn more about teens' smoking attitudes.
(December 15, 1996)
Article on recent tobacco industry tactics to recruit young customers, such as cartoon characters in cigarette ads, rock music promotions, and making cigarettes easily available to youth.
(July 01, 1992)
