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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
for every regulation in the USA "protecting" kids from tobbaco, or mandating stiff penalties etc., there are international trade deals which allow Phillip Morris and their ilk to market cigarrettes directly to children all over the developing world.
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I know, this is a fucking HUGE tragedy. I was watching a documentary about "pygmies" living in the "jungles" in Gabon, these folks were in what we could call "abject poverty." They had ONE single bullet and went on a hunt for two days to bring back game large enough to supplement the diet of an entire village. The whole time, dudes were smoking Marlboro reds. Sure, the film crew might have brought some along to share, but how do folks living in the bush in Gabon develop a habit for filtered cigarettes in the first place? Because they are passed out free like penny candies across the developing world. Its called branding, the middle class is rising exponentially, yesterday's countryman is tomorrows urbanite, so if they are branded when they are too poor to afford a product, when they get money its the first thing they buy, hence Nike billboards in the slums of Lagos.