#tobacco companies

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Can you spot the Camel Filters smoker? Camel cigarettes ad - 1973.

[desimonewayland]

Do you know what a Zynbabwe is? Or an upper-decky lip pillow? OK, here’s an easier one — how about just Zyn?

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Never forget that Truth.org was bought by tobacco company's in the late 2010s and ever since has only advertised against vapes and lobbied to get rid of vapes. You know what Truth.org used to share in their accurate studies before they were bought out by big tobacco? How effective vaping is to quit cigarettes.

When's the last time you saw an ad about the lung cancer caused by either of these items? It is now all about teenagers anxiety because (sarcasm ahead) that's obviously the ONLY BAD SIDE EFFECT OF NICOTINE?? They also no longer run their ads made by POC about how tobacco companies specifically target poor city environments because they know they're more likely to get teens hooked on the way to the cornerstore. Or anything about the cost occurrence or injury and harm to others around you.

Truth as an organization is just don't vape now. It's just, don't give yourself worse anxiety. It says nothing about cigarettes quite purposely.

As a teenager that actually supported Truth in its early years and witnessed this change around 2016-2018, I've always been disgusted. But I don't think I've ever written up how obvious they are about it and tried to get others to spread that. Even when truth specifically got in the way of all thc vape cartirdges as well for medical users to try and ban flavored vapes without a clear enough law because "kids just vape flavors". And they're still making these pushes country wide. They even got our lighters banned to 21 and up (which I'm well over the age of, but still stuns me when I realize legal adults at 18 can buy fireworks with no way to light them??)

Kids still smoke cigarettes. Kids started vaping about a decade ago now because they're easier to hide than cigarettes and quite literally less harmful (which doesn't equate to unharmful.) Teenagers are always going to see their older peers and family have bad habits and emulate them.

But before Truth.org was bought by big tobacco in the late 2010s, it was having an actual impact in the youth population dropping cigarettes, both under the legal age and above it. This was found with a ton of repeated studies.

Which meant less sales of tobacco products, which led to big tobacco buying them out. And I still can't believe this was legal for them to do, as it's thrown us back into a past of tobacco companies controlling the news around tobacco, as well as staining the narrative and making it less accessible for people quiting cigarettes to get access to items proven to help people quit.

Anyway, that's my rant for the year. Fuck Truth.org and fuck tobacco companies.

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"SHOW CHANGE NEEDED BY TOBACCO EVIDENCE," Toronto Star. May 15, 1934. Page 2. --- Rouses People to Inequality and Injustice of System, Says Teskey ---- Interrupting the meeting with questions involving international finance, when the speakers continued to discuss national and local questions, a heckler was finally ejected by force at a C.C.F. meeting in Veterans' hall, Mount Dennis, last night. Two ushers hurried from the rear of the hall, grabbed the heckler and rushed him through the swinging doors, and deposited him on the curb.

With rebellion as a drastic alternative, the C.C.F. is Canada's only hope for a governmental system based upon human needs and Christianity truly applied, declared Dr. Luke Teskey, C.C.F. candidate for South York.

"In less than 100 years there have been two rebellions in Canada. We are now face to face with a crisis of the greatest magnitude in the history of Canada," continued Dr. Teskey. "The Canadian people will spring about a change in our social construction and it will either come by evolution or revolution.

"The evidence as given at Ottawa recently by Waller M. Stewart, wealthy tobacco manufacturer, that 'excise favors and been exchanged for campaign contributions to party friends of the present government,'" is well known.

"These facts are of inestimable value in rousing Canadian people to the gross inequalities and injustices of a capitalistic state of society," he declared.

"If the report in the press yesterday of the Saturday night clash at Earlscourt park between C.C.F. speakers and the police wherein the police state that I ordered the driver of the truck we were using as a platform to leave it standing on one of the athletic fields,' is true, then the police are bearing false witness against me," Dr. Teskey charged.

Other speakers included Councillor Arthur Williams of East York and J. W. Buckley, C.C.F. candidate in West York.

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'Get the honest taste of a Lucky Strike'

Lucky Strike cigarettes advertisement (1959).

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Ok last one, this might be a little obscure but here's some premades as various pics I took while working in a call center, is that relatable?

[an-aura-about-you]

actually since we're talking about details that imply things that some might have missed in TMA, this has me wondering:

y'all know the dude in the first episode smokes pot, right? the one that rolls his own cigarettes? that is a Pot Smoker Thing to do, even if he does have tobacco in this instance. and I don't mean from extra stuff that implies he does, I mean just from that detail in the episode itself.

[stone-cold-groove]

Light up a lucky - it’s light-up time! A circa 1956 ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

[caeliflammae]

refusing to buy a new vape bc i dont want to contribute to exploitation in the congo but also still being addicted to vaping leads to me just chiefing on the deadest oldest nastiest vape and wondering why i feel like shit every time i hit it

[thediktatortot]

I don't understand how people can actually smoke cigarettes for real.

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"CLAIM REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS IN TOBACCO TRADE," Toronto Star. May 16, 1934. Page 9. ---- Retailers Afraid to Display Any But Imperial's Pro- ducts, Inquiry Told ---- SAYS THREATS MADE --- Special to The Star Ottawa, May 15. - H. C. Fortier, Montreal tobacco wholesaler, appearing before the tobacco price spreads inquiry, to-day declared he had become so calloused to complaints of Imperial Tobacco's alleged efforts to strangle all other competition that he could not begin to enumerate the various instances.

Quebec retailers were in constant fear of being cut off Imperial's buying list, he said.

Favors Price Maintenance John Hughes, secretary-treasurer of LO. Crothe, Ltd., of Montreal, said his firm was in favor of price maintenance.

His company had passed on to the consumers the lowered excise and sales tax in 1932 but nothing came out of their pockets, he said. Jobbers and retailers absorbed the 37 cents reduction not taken up by the reduced government tax.

Mr. Hughes claimed his 1931 price of 27 cents per pound was the highest paid by any tobacco buyer that year. In 1932, he paid 31 and 27 cents per pound on two purchases.

Witness said he had refused to supply jobbers who cut prices. "Did you ever refuse because the jobber did not belong to the association?"

"No."

"Do you contribute money to the association?" "In one case."

Charges Competition Strangled Mr. Hughes declared he did not like the methods used to strangle competition. "The methods used are so numerous it would take a week to enumerate them. Some salesmen for other manufacturers even go into tobacco shops and, if rivals goods are too prominently displayed, they will pick them up themselves and cart them to the back of the store. The retailer is afraid to say a word for fear of being cut off."

That applied more to cigars than cigarettes, he said. "To whom are you referring "Imperial Tobacco."

"Is that a real complaint?" "Yes. It is the general practice."

"Can you name them?" "Yes, but I ask that their names be withheld. Otherwise I fear for the consequences unless Imperial Tobacco has has a change of heart because of what has come out of this committee."

W. W. Kennedy, Winnipeg, Conservative, asked him to file the names for Investigation by the committee's investigators. "Otherwise we are dealing with fog," he pointed out.

"Nearly Life Death" Mr. Hughes charged "complete discrimination against his cigarettes. He cited the case of a Winnipeg retailer warned by Imperial Tobacco that their goods must have 80 per cent of his advertising space under penalty of losing the privilege of buying direct.

"Eighty per cent, means 100 per cent," he complained.

"I looked in 3 different windows to-day," said E. J. Young Lib.. Weyburn). "Imperial cigarettes dominated most windows dominated but I saw Macdonald's and your cigarettes in others."

Norman Sommerville. K.C. committee counsel: "If the retailer doesn't play with Imperial. It is life or death to him?" "Pretty near." Mr. Hughes said three weeks ago his firm put out a new cigarette in Toronto and put streamers on the streets. A day or so later Imperial plastered the streets with streamers advertising their brands.

"We put up more streamers to counteract this," he said. "To-day I received a wire from our Toronto manager telling me that almost all our streamers were taken down, but he could not prove anything."

Witness cited several instances of alleged threats by Imperial salesmen the tobacconist did not remove the showcases of rival firms. "This one funny," he observed. "This complaint does not affect our goods. It says the salesmen warned the retailer that he would have trouble buying direct unless he took Benson-Hedges cigar showcase off his counter."

Mr. Hughes declared the complaints widespread that the believed orders to salesmen must come direct from Imperial Tobacco head- quarters

"Have you any actual personal experience of this practice?" "No, but one retailer was ordered to produce for Imperial a record of all other brands he sold that month. He had ordered goods three or four days delivery delivery was held up.. He told us the Imperial salesman coming back the next day so we sent down some men to hide in the next room and listen to the conversation. The salesman told the retailer he was ashamed to do this but he had orders from head office. If the records were not forthcoming. the retailer could no longer buy direct from Imperial. Our men came out. The salesman saw he was trapped and the retailer got his supplies that afternoon."

Claims Signs Torn Down Only last week the signs advertising a new cigar his firm was making in Hull were torn down. Mr. Hughes said. "Who did this?" he was asked. "Imperial," he replied.

"Who says so?" "Our manager. He would not say so unless he had pretty definite evidence."

Major Kennedy: "It's a big fish eating the case of the little fish. That has gone on ever since there were fish."

Mr. Hughes: "Maybe we were fish to go into this but, now we are in, we will fight."

"But sometimes the little fish escape?" "The smaller they are, the better chance of escape they have."

All manufacturers could afford to the grower more for his tobacco were not for the premiums in packets of cigarettes, he said. "Who started this practice premiums? asked Sam Factor.

Mr. Sommerville: "Cards in cigarettes are as old as you or I. I remember when we used to get pictures of Delilah Fox, Lily Langtry and other famous actresses. They were to look at, though."

Claims Initiative Stultified Defining the practices which he said militated against free exercise of business Initiative, H. Fortier, prominent Montreal jobber distributing for Macdonald's, said: "We have found we would put up a British Consols sign and an Imperial man would come along and tell us he could sell us no longer direct. We arranged to distribute Macdonald's tobacco the Montreal unemployed. A few days later the retailer who distributed to the jobless was told he could no longer buy direct from Imperial."

A. C. Picard, vice-president of the Rock City Tobacco Co., at Leamington, makers of Spud and Master Mason cigarettes, said the retailer to-day was in "dangerously poor" condition "Every one of them will be out of business business in in a few years, years," he predicted. The retailer's share of the $75.000.000 Canada spends in smokes every year was $12,000,000, he said. This, divided among 57,000 retailers, is an average of $260, or $1 a week.

"The retailer should get 20 per cent. and the jobber 10 per cent. That's how it was until ten years ago, he said.

He often thought the heads of Imperial did not know the lengths to which their salesmen went to get business, he said. "They drive their men, who get so nervous and excitable they upset everything in their scramble for business. Imperial has 133 salesmen going around the country with 100 advertisers following them to check up on them.

"They are to keep on putting the fear of God into the heart of the retailer," he claimed. "The salesmen are frightened of losing their jobs if they don't seem to have firm enough hold on the retailers."

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[timeisacephalopod]

Funny that every single fat person is accused of promoting obesity for simply existing- but somehow tobacco companies aren't held similarly responsible for selling a product that causes all kinds of health risks and cancers- fat people are held accountable for their "cost" to the healthcare system but never once have I heard anyone argue for shutting down tobacco companies under the grounds of promoting and glorifying cancer and only existing to sell poison to addicted customers for the sole purposes of their own profits.

Like it's very strange how little we shit on tobacco companies for doing everything we accuse fat people of down to actually costing the healthcare system money, which I doubt fat people do more than anyone else as fat people report delaying doctors visits for as long as possible to avoid weight based discrimination. I just think it's baffling that fat people face systemic oppression for existing because we think we can Individual Choice them into being thin, but we can't Individual Choice tobacco company execs into shutting down a business that exits entirely to get people addicted to cancer causing products to the point of being an ongoing public health crisis. We can't shut up about The Obesity Epidemic ™️ but them stats on tobacco deaths? Well I guess no one can be Systemically Shamed into fixing that except the smokers whom we shame via disgusting images on the back of cigarette packages. Because somehow that's how tobacco companies can be held responsible for getting people addicted to cancer causing products, acting like the customer is responsible for the company selling it.

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Happy New Year. 1890