Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, then, Larry White, who is not a doctor, is not calling on us to quit smoking for health reasons. He is calling for a boycott of the tobacco industry on moral grounds. Charging the officials of such companies as R J Reynolds and Phillip Morris as being the vendors of fatality, White paints an incredibly grim picture of an industry that thrives on fraud, deception and a complete lack of social responsibility...
...forming his attack against the tobacco giants, White makes use of examples of the cigarette industry behaving at its worst. He analyzes advertisments in both magazines and on billboards, reviews medical tracts and relies on legislation and lawsuits against tobacco companies to villify their merchandising techniques of a product he considers to be lethal. White also relies on public surveys, information from the tobacco companies themselves and his own personal experiences as a smoker to make a case that the cigarette manufactures are nothing more than industrial murderers...
...influence over smoking policies. He writes that as companies like Reynolds have merged with Nabisco, they have dictated national policies, becoming like spiders with tentacles of influence in interests as diverse as food and appliances. When any of its subsidiary companies attempt to ban smoking in their offices, the tobacco industry imposes hardships on them...
...while White's experiences inhaling cigarettes from Camels to Newports do not have much relevance to the tobacco industries' policies as a whole, it seems, in this first chapter, that White is attempting to justify his writing of the book. By showing that he too was victim of the manufacturer's ploys, White avoids alienating smokers by appearing to be a "holier than thou" figure...
White concentrates first on the great lobbying power cigarette companies have held over Congress and in local politics. Citing a statistic that out of 451 congressional districts, tobacco is grown only in 51, White presents us with information regarding laws and national tobacco policies to show that the cigarette kings have more than their fair share of representation in Washington...