Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International bid huge sums of money to invest in Ethiopia’s smokers 27 May 201628 May 2016 The information here was based on, and is a discussion of, the following article published on May 24, 2016, (author, Dawit Endeshaw): http://allafrica.com/stories/201605240890.html Three of the richest tobacco companies globally recently bid…
Child labour in tobacco industry… Child labour in Africa’s tobacco fields: Tobacco companies are to blame 1 May 20165 May 2016 The following article is based on a version of an article I wrote recently for the Kenyan NGO publication, Reject Newspaper, an African Woman and Child Feature Service (awcfs): http://reject.awcfs.org/article/child-labour-in-tobacco-industry-worrying-experts/…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… Behind the smokescreen of Ethiopia’s surging tobacco production 8 Oct 201526 Dec 2015 Click on the blue link below to go to the Addis Standard site and access my article on Ethiopia's tobacco issues. Source: Behind the smokescreen of Ethiopia’s surging tobacco production Tens of…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… Don’t be foolish! Be healthy! Don’t, for God’s sake, don’t be Marlboro! 15 May 201517 May 2015 Philip Morris have a most filthy, disgusting, despicable, unethical, abominable campaign going, marketing, with their rotten-to-the-core tactics, their unhealthy products to teens in 60 countries, and doubtlessly planning to expand that campaign.…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… Menthol Cigarettes, Tobacco Companies, African Americans and Civil Rights 3 May 201526 Dec 2015 Menthol, an aromatic chemical derived in particular from peppermint, has been used to flavor tobacco for 90 years. Menthol is added in small amounts to most cigarettes, but…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… “We dip our cigarettes in petrol to try and quit smoking….” 24 Jan 201526 Dec 2015 Recently I had the privilege of accompanying two of my Masters (MSc) students to different parts of rural Ethiopia to help supervise and assist them in their final-year MSc research projects. Both projects…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… How tobacco companies managed to get our favourite cartoon characters to smoke 23 Nov 201426 Dec 2015 The tobacco industry has targeted just about any and every group of human beings with their addictive and deadly products, and in recent years tobacco companies have stooped so low as…
Child labour in tobacco industry… British American Tobacco’s sneaky advertising in Africa 20 May 201426 Dec 2015 In previous posts I referred to hundreds of British American Tobacco (BAT) posters, advertising Rothmans cigarettes, that appeared in the past several years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These posters clearly…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… More Letters from Kids to Tobacco Executives: “I think you’re just as addicted to money as smokers are to cigarettes.” 2 Mar 201426 Dec 2015 In my last post, I mentioned that I had researched the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, a database of tobacco company documents, for letters from children and young people to tobacco…
Groups targetted by the tobacco industry… Letters from Kids to Tobacco Companies and their Replies (or not)! 26 Feb 201426 Dec 2015 For some months I have been perusing the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. For more information on this database of tobacco company documents that resulted from a legal case against the…