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From influencers to flavors, here are the tactics tobacco executives have used to get you.

BIG TOBACCO MARKETS TO TEENS TO REPLACE THEIR DYING CUSTOMERS.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Let’s Make the Next Generation Tobacco-Free: Your Guide to the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2015 Oct 19].
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Let’s Make the Next Generation Tobacco-Free: Your Guide to the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2015 Oct 19].

Menthol flavors make smoking cigarettes easier.
SOURCE: Hersey JC, Ng SW, Nonnemaker JM, et al. Are Menthol Cigarettes a Starter Product for Youth? Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2006;8:403-413
SOURCE: Hersey JC, Ng SW, Nonnemaker JM, et al. Are Menthol Cigarettes a Starter Product for Youth? Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2006;8:403-413

Tobacco companies make nearly $7,000 for every tobacco death.
SOURCE: http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/news/the-tobaccoatlas-finds-industry-tactics-are-creating-a-future-ofmissed-opportunity-to-improve-global-health-wealth-andequality/

The number of tobacco incidents in pg-13 movies has climbed to historically high levels.
SOURCE: www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/youth_data/movies/index.htm [accessed 2020 May 9]

“We don’t smoke that s***. We just sell it.”
Actual Quote From A Tobacco Executive
SOURCE: Thames TV, First Tuesday, Tobacco Wars, 1992, 2 June.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults. A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2016.
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