It has been estimated that if food crops were grown instead of tobacco this land could feed between 10 and 20 million people In 2002, the Chief Executive Officer of Phillip Morris, one of the worlds biggest tobacco companies made $3.2 million in salary and bonuses It would take a tobacco farmer in Brazil, 2,140 years to earn what a tobacco company director earns in one year A 1994 study reported that about 43 percent of tobacco estates in Malawi employ children directly In 2007 the combined revenues of the three leading tobacco companies (PMI, BAT and JT) was $147 billion Channel 4 are screening Tobaccos Child Workers Smoking and the Media Studies show that smoking in movies misleads young people into thinking that tobacco use is normal, acceptable, socially beneficial and more common than it is The current rate of smoking scenes in Hollywood films has returned to the high levels of the 1950s, after reaching its lowest levels in 1980 The Big Sell In 1997, a Big Tobacco executive once said, under oath, that he believed Gummy Bears were addictive like cigarettes
Netflix and Fox held steady in the second and third spots but more than doubled their depictions from last year: Netflix moved from 157 to 429, and Fox moved from 97 to 241
By Clinton Isham, Tribal Relations Consultant, American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation For generations, tobacco has been at the center of Native life
The CDC even offers free resources to help people quit
