Smoking
- Created by: Jade19
- Created on: 11-01-16 10:10
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- Tobacco TNC's
- Production of Tobacco
- LEDCs are converting from traditional crop farming to tobacco growing
- BAT is the largest Agribusiness in Kenya, contracting 17,000 farmers, cultivating 15,000 hectares
- Brazil is the largest exporter of tobacco
- Tobacco grown in the USA is twice as much to buy
- Production is, therefore, moving overseas to exploit cheap labour
- Vietnam sells off the majority of its tobacco for under $3 a kilo
- Tobacco Industry Effects
- Greater cause of death than any disease
- 5million deaths per year
- Five times more likely to have a heart attack
- In men 22 times more likely to have heart attack
- Smoking during pregnancy – miscarriage, low birth weight, damaged child development
- Tobacco Transnationals
- Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds & British American Tobacco are the world’s largest tobacco TNCs
- Own or lease plants in 60 countries
- Have a total revenue of US$70billion
- 1.2billion smokers worldwide: 800million are found in LEDCs
- TNCs target LEDCs with advertising and marketing
- Nearly 70% of Chinese men smoke
- Reducing impacts of smoking
- Advertisement campaigns featuring shocking and graphic scenes relating to the risks of smoking aired during prime time TV.
- A ban on the sale of cigarettes to under 18s.
- All cigarettes must be kept behind a counter and away from public view.
- Vending machines that dispense cigarettes are illegal.
- Public smoking is banned except for in designated areas.
- Cigarette packaging must be generic and plain and must feature large warnings about the risks of smoking.
- The NHS offers free stop smoking clinics.
- Production of Tobacco
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