Tobacco Companies In The 1920's

During the 1920's, smoking tobacco had been documented as hazardous to peoples health as studies had linked lung cancer patients were more commonly smokers. Since the 1920's various other studies had significant evidence to claim other health risks with pregnant women, children and the affects of second hand smoke on others. After all these studies came the debate on whether smoking should or should not be continued in a workplace.

Tobacco was in crude form since the early 1600s, and was mainly used for pipe-smoking ,chewing tobacco and snuff. In the early 1800s, is when cigarettes began to become widely popular in the United States. The fact that tobacco was bad for human health was not known around the time European had proscribed it to the Native Americans. At this time the physicians thought it would be an effective medicine. Around the 20th century is when they found that smoking can cause extreme health effects. In the 1930 is when a researcher in Cologne, Germany made the connection between smoking and the causation of cancer. A Doctor by the name of Raymond Pearl reported that people who smoke do not live as long as individuals who do not smoke. In 1944, the

Smoking and drinking before the 1920s was seen as strictly “royalties” that men indulged in; if a women was seen smoking or drinking it was considered an unhealthy and unlady like. That was until women wanted to even the playing field, they no longer had to worry about political equality they had their eyes set on tackling social standards next by taking up drinking and smoking. Eventually, these two habits also became symbols the Flapper’s empowerment, cigarette company even thought that marketing to women would help them sell the most product.In the advertisments cigareete company’s would often use women who represented Flappers to attrack more buyers ( Women and Smoking, Wikipedia). Flappers, much like their male counterparts openly defined

The rapid growth of industrial corporations and urban world from the late 1800s to the early 1900s caused many changes in the lives of the American people. Unable to keep up with the swiftly changing world, many political, social, and economic problems arose during this time. Political problems like monopolies influencing government affairs and arguments over how much the government should be able to regulate and control society. Social problems like women’s rights, the working conditions of factory workers, living conditions of people living in cities and slums. Economic problems such as big corporations monopolizing industries, providing workers with a living wage, and implementing taxes. New parties formed to try to solve some of the

Between 1880 and 1920, the candy industry was booming. In 1880, 2.2 pounds of candy were consumed per capita. Forty years later, the number per person had jumped to 13.1 pounds. This expansion in consumption meant that many jobs were available in large cities.

The Consumer Goods Industry revolutionized household work. Before the twenties, all furniture was moved off the carpets, which were rolled up and dragged outside to beat out dirt and dust. The ice in the icebox was replaced and the waterpan that lay beneath was changed. Clothes were scrubbed in a washing tub on a washboard. Women spent months canning food for the winter. Clothing was made from patterns, and bread was made from scratch. Many of these chores were soon eliminated. The vacuum cleaner got rid of carpet beating. Refrigerators and washing machines helped reduce the amount of work. Store-bought food became cheaper as there were new methods of canning and freezing. Clothing became more widespread and purchasable. Large bakeries supplied

In 1953, Philip Morris had a survey conducted on American’s smoking habits. The only menthol cigarette on the survey and the only one of any importance in the early 1950s was Kool. The survey showed that only 2% of White Americans preferred the Kool brand. By contrast, the survey reported that 5% of African Americans preferred Kools. This small difference in preference was successfully parlayed by Brown & Williamson executives, and later by the tobacco industry as a whole, into the 70% vs. 30% difference that we see today between Black and White menthol smokers,

Over two thousand years ago, when Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco, it began to be smoked and chewed (Cancer Council). Tobacco use was not known all over the world until the 1600s (Cancer Council). In the 1700s, many tobacco industries had been developed all over the world (Cancer Council). Great factors that helped the mass production of tobacco products and the growth of markets, were advertisements and promotions. After tobacco products started to become popular, machine made cigarettes were introduced (Cancer Council). In the 1900s, scientists began to discover that tobacco products have nicotine, an addictive drug, in them (Kessler). The nicotine caused tobacco sales to be extremely high, because it was causing addiction. The high

It is estimated that an approximate 158 040 Americans alone will die from lung cancer each and every year. The cause for this horrible event may lead to many reasons although the biggest reason is the multibillion dollar Tobacco industry. Tobacco companies are one of the major reasons that many people died from lung cancer and now with universal health care becoming widely accessible the hard earned money made by the taxpayers are going towards treating those who were struck down by its negative effects. Instead of this I strongly believe that given the facts and the reciprocations of thier continued actions the tobacco industry should be legally forced to pay for any and every smoking patient diagnosed with lung cancer.

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.

According to Thibodeau and Martin (2000), the cigarette industry was growing and aiming to steal the fire from the cigar market. It appeared that early packaging wasn’t yet distinct - wrappers had the subdue colours, while advertising display cards showed smokers in scenes of leisure and comfort. The also stated that since the british believed that handmade meant higher quality, this then began to influence the packaging of new mass produced cigarettes. The tobacco industries salesmen worked hard to convert the japanese to American brands. Undeterred by the language barrier, the cigarettes packaging and products spoke for themselves. Thibodeau and Martin (2000) stated that even though the Meiji government stopped the importing of cigarettes to protect from the British American Tobacco industry, they still continued to distribute a copycat version of BAT’s tobacco brand ‘John Player’. The Japanese version looked exactly the same as the original with the same design and typeface used, the only difference was that the japanese clearly couldn’t figure out the difference between the letters ‘r’ and ‘l’ and ended up calling it ‘John

Product liability - the tobacco companies made and marketed a product that was unfit to use. Negligent advertising - the tobacco companies failed to warn consumers of the risks of smoking cigarettes. Fraud, and [the] violation of state consumer protection statutes’. The defendant tobacco companies came out victorious in these original cases. This is partly due to their inability to successfully link tobacco use with the development of cancer. With this, tobacco companies were able to cling to the hypothesis that many factors contributed to cancer, and smoking could not be considered the only cause. Due to this contention, tobacco companies could fall behind the excuse that with a lack of information, they were unable to know about the potential health risks of smoking and therefore could not research them and effectively warn the plaintiff consumers.

American’s spend a startling $156 Billion dollars every year on tobacco and tobacco related products and an additional $133 Billion dollars on healthcare for diseases that originate from smoking and chewing tobacco. The human toll is also significant with a projected 8 million people to die every year by 2030. To combat these extreme statistics CVS Caremark, now CVS Health, has decided to make the hard business decision to stop selling tobacco products in all 7,700 of its drug stores. The decision stemmed from changing its image from a corner store that fills prescriptions to a health care company that is trying to “reinvent the pharmacy to have a more supportive and active role in health care”. To show support for the idea, petitions have been popping up on Change.com like the one by Michael Brochstein of New York, New York who is calling for other drug store giant Walgreens and its subsidiary Duane Read to follow in CVS’s footsteps and stop selling tobacco products also. Proponents of the idea say that if these giants stop selling tobacco then regular purchasers will have to go elsewhere, making it less convenient and possibly making smokers move in the right direction, to quit smoking and hopefully curve the smoking rate as a whole. This is needed because although smoking has been on the decrease since the early 1990’s, recently getting to a low of 18% percent of white males being smokers, it is still an epidemic that kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents,

Tobacco agriculture is expanding across the globe. Much of this expansion is in the developing world where, in general, prices and incomes are lower when compared to other parts of the globe. The opportunity to find cheaper sources of agriculture products and other raw ingredients could help tobacco product firms reduce, or at least maintain, existing expenditures. While this is an interesting opportunity, the relatively low weight for this factor is reflective of the top tier’s strong existing profit margins.

In 2008, 21% of adults in America aged 18 and older were current cigarette smokers while another 21% had been former smokers and 58% had smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their life, according to a CDC survey (Pleis 10). These statistics result in almost half of the United States population being smokers at one point in their life. The tobacco industry is huge in order to provide cigarettes to the quarter of Americans that currently smoke. The statistics that resulted from the survey did not even include other types of tobacco products, which are just as harmful. However, even realizing the harm that tobacco products can cause, tobacco companies use a variety of devious methods to draw people in to buy their product, especially younger