Joe Camel or Minnie Mouse?
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Sylvestor Stallone was paid $500,000 dollars to smoke Brown Winston in the movie Rocky.
15,000 young people start to smoke each year
This is what the tobacco industry wants to happen - the quicker they hook you, the more money they make from you!
“if you are really and truly not going to sell to children, you are going to be out of business in 30 years”
(tobacco industry executive) “younger adult smokers are the only source of replacements smokers. If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.”
(tobacco industry executive) "attract young smokers to replace the older ones who were dying or quitting …I was part of a scam, selling an image to young boys. My job was to get half a million kids to smoke by 1995"
(tobacco industry lead model) +
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Joe camel the cartoon character designed by Camel cigarettes as part of their advertising campaigns became even more recognisble than Disney’s Minnie Mouse at one point. Click on the T.V button to flick through some more advertising facts... |
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