Hi,
Camel started to advertise again but not for their cigarettes. The tobacco company is advertising for Camel Snus, a tobacco packet that you put up in your upper lip, that you don't chew, and that is spit less. It's because of the low salt content that spares users the unpleasantness of public expectoration.
Camel Snus had already been advertised in many magazines, like Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated and Maxim. But many tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in August seeking tobacco advertisements from using logos or color in publications that have either more than 15 percent readership, or two million readers, under 18.
A spokesman of the tobacco company said that “We do not advertise cigarettes in print right now and have not done that for a couple years, but Camel Snus is not a cigarette.” “This is a different product, and if ultimately you want your adult tobacco consumers to be aware of the product and its attributes, clearly you have to advertise.”
If you want people to know about your new product, you indeed need to advertise. I understand that it's not a cigarette but it's tobacco. Just because the tobacco is not rolled up in a stick and has a filter, it is tobacco, which makes it the same thing. Young adults will see and read about the new product, and because it's not a cigarette they might think that it's OK to buy and try it out.
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I don't know, I think by this point, EVERYONE (including kids) knows that tobacco, in all it's possible forms, is bad. Just because they put it in a nice little pouch that you put in your upper lip doesn't make it any less dangerous.
ReplyDeleteAll tobacco, from the time it comes up out of the ground, contains nicotine (the addictive part) and multiple carcinogens (the cancerous part that is such a buzzkill.)
People are going to do what they want. I think the ads just let them know their options.
This is ridiculous, just as you said tobacco is tobacco, not matter what form. What makes me sick is that tobacco compan.ies are that desperate to make money that they will do anything to create not a product that is better for your health but creates a different illusion than a cigarette. In my mind I feel that tobacco should not be advertised anywhere because of the fast it KILLS PEOPLE! That will never happen though, considering the profit that both the government and huge companies make off the product. WIse up America, tobacco is tobacco no matter what form
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