Cigarettes In Australia

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This is through reducing the prevalence of smoking an its associated health, social and economic costs, and the inequality it can cause. The NTS offers a national framework, reflecting the best practices for tobacco control and combines past policy frameworks at state and territory, national and global levels. The NTS provides an overview of the impacts of tobacco use, outlines the shared goals, objectives and targets for tobacco control across government and non-government organisations for the next six years. The approach of this strategy involves from the continuation and successes from previous national tobacco strategies and continue national-wide approaches that have reduced smoking prevalence over the last four decades. Over the decades, Australia have instigated various policies which include; mass media campaigns, cessation services, health warnings on packaging, prohibitions on tobacco advertising, price increases and access to tobacco.

Tobacco industries are categorized as oligopolies. Oligopoly, according to McConnell Brue Flyyn’s textbook, is “characterized by multiple firms, one or more of which will produce a significant portion of industry output.” Tobacco had been present in Indonesia since the 1600s. It was brought in to Java Island by Portuguese merchants. At first, Indonesia’s cigarettes were handmade at home. They were rolled and wrapped with cornhusks, but that was a long time ago. The Indonesian tobacco industry today is characterized by the dominance of big three tobacco companies---Gudang Garam, Bentoel, and Sampoerna. These

Large tobacco companies are losing money by losing smokers. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 1965 42 percent of men and women above the age of 18 smoked and in 2010 that number is reduced to 19 percent. Altria, the nation’s largest tobacco company and Reynolds American, the second largest tobacco company are turning to the electronic cigarette market to make up for this drop. Electric cigarettes convert liquid nicotine into vaper which is then inhaled (Montopoli, 2013).

Pricing has long been one of the most important marketing strategies employed by tobacco companies in the USA and around the world. The profits resulting from this monopoly power in the cigarette markets led American Tobacco to move into the markets for other tobacco products, subsidising the same types of aggressive pricing and marketing strategies that eventually gained it a significant share of these markets as well. Perhaps most important among these strategies were the “fighting brands”—very low priced cigarettes and other tobacco products, including some priced below manufacturing costs—that were used to drive competitors from the market. After a relatively short learning period, pricing in US cigarette markets during the 1920s became

The use of tobacco products is just one of many factors that influence the price of insurance. Unlike some other deciding factors of insurance prices, people choose to use tobacco products. There is plenty of information about the dangers of tobacco products. Tobacco products’ packaging warns that use of the products will have negative effects on a person’s health. There are also numerous public service announcements circulating on television and the internet warning people to stay away from tobacco. Many systems are also available, often paid for by insurance companies, that will help a person quit using tobacco. These vary widely, from patches that a person wears, to nicotine gum. The increase in the cost of insurance for tobacco users

Left to its own devices, in the heyday of zero regulation, no taxes and a lot of hype, the e-cigarette industry has experienced unprecedented growth. It is no surprise that the industry has recently drawn the attention of a swarm of interested parties; competitors, supporters and opponents alike. NJOY, an electronic cigarette company, is one such company that has found it self in the midst of this attention and must now navigate its way through to survive. Currently, NJOY is facing a host of problems, which must be overcome to in order to maintain a successful position in the market. E-cigarettes are under close scrutiny by legislative and regulatory bodies in government; decisions made by these parties can have a tremendous impact on the future of the industry. In addition, competition from Big Tobacco poses another big treat. Finally, special interest groups such as Tobacco Free Kids and anti-smoking lobbyists are also pushing their agendas with policy makers in order to play a role crafting the future of the industry. These issues affect almost every aspect of NJOY’s business, thus to successfully compete in the e-cigarette market without selling out to Big Tobacco, NJOY needs to have an integrated market and nonmarket strategy.

Tabaco use is a major health issue that affects adolescents and young adults today. “The use of tobacco products represents one of the most widespread, high-risk health behaviors for this group” (SITE). Tobacco usage in adolescents and young adults is a big deal due to the fact that “The vast majority of people become dependent on nicotine develop that dependency before the age of 18”(SITE). Those that smoke less than five cigarettes daily experience some type of withdraw faster and more often than adults (SITE). Nicotine dependency is extremely high causing the “first time to cigarette” to be shorter, increasing the need/want. This trend has little financial impact in the beginning, however health care costs overall would increase over time.

The above graph shows that at the original price level(P), the marginal private benefit(MPB) of cigarette is greater than the marginal social cost (MSC). This means that cigarette is over-consumed and the green triangle between MSB and MPB shows the welfare loss. The government may decide to increase the indirect tax to cigarette as the cost of cigarette(healthcare) outstrip the taxation it collects. The supply curve shifts to the left from S=MPC=MSC to S+tax. The quantity consumed will decreases from Q to Q1 and the problem of over-consumed will be solved as the yellow triangle that represents the decrease in consumption is equal to the original welfare loss triangle.

Cigarette smoking and tobacco usage is a negative externality of consumption, an economic activity that imposes costs on a third party for which the consumer doesn’t account for the costs. In this case, those who are passive smoking, diseases and health issues are the costs towards them. Negative externalities are one of the sources of market failure, a situation where, in any given market, the quantity of a product demanded by consumers does not equate to the quantity supplied by suppliers. This is a direct result of a lack of certain economically ideal factors, which prevents equilibrium. Negative externalities occur due to the overprovision of demerit goods, a good or service whose consumption is considered unhealthy, degrading, or otherwise socially undesirable due to the perceived negative effects on the consumers themselves. They are over-consumed and over-produced.

Strengths * Immense amounts of capital to invest * Already in a similar industry * Willingness to adapt with the times

I have chosen cigarettes to be my market transaction as it is has a very large and wide market. A cigarette is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives1,

However our concern here is not only about the cigarette as a product but with the ethics of cigarettes as well, that affect the social process of marketing. This is because marketing process makes things worse and is also considered as unethical, and as a result has a significant negative impact on the societal welfare. Multinational tobacco companies apply sophisticated strategies ( such as putting flavor in the cigarettes and placing cigarettes in the shops near the sweets to make them more appealing) and invest huge amounts of money for marketing, in order to establish brand familiarity and future loyalty among young peoplem, to secure profits in the long run. 'The tobacco epidemic is a man-made international health crisis, created and sustained by multinational tobacco corporations.' (Yach, Brinchmann, Bellet page 2).

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Given the oligopolistic nature of the US tobacco product industry, the remaining firms are forced to compete through aggressive marketing and advertising strategies that are subsidized by their high economic profits. A 1976 report for Phillip Morris (now Altria) described the nature of tobacco product pricing as “some sparring among potential price leaders, after which the rest of the industry accepts the resulting price structure” (IARC, 2014). This report offered that a “relative absence of price competition in the market” allowed prices to offer high profits which were then used to support other marketing and advertising activities, which is where cigarette companies were more likely to compete aggressively with one another (IARC, 2014). Tobacco companies have consistently raised prices on their products beyond the various tax increases put on at the state and federal level, passing on this additional cost to the customer (USDA Economic Research Service, 2007). Moreover, the tobacco companies have also acted opportunistically as a group by earning more profits on a per unit basis after the introduction of tobacco taxes. This price increase strategy could be recommended if consumers don’t associate the price increases with profit-seeking from the tobacco companies, but instead associate it with the government (IARC, 2014).