The tobacco industry currently spends billions each year on slick marketing tactics and political influence so they can profit off death and disease.1516
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Even for people who don’t use tobacco, there can be deadly consequences.17
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The industry calls kids their “replacement customers.”18 Big Tobacco sentences them to a lifetime of addiction and disease.
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This racist and unjust industry has strategically targeted certain communities with deadly products and manipulative messaging.19
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No one’s safe from the environmental damage and health risks from toxic tobacco waste and its plastic pollution.20212223242526
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As two cities end tobacco sales, and smoking and lung cancer rates drop, a California without Big Tobacco is already happening.
Nicotine is toxic for kids and young adults with developing brains.
Big Tobacco’s trying to sell us a future without smoking, where vapes are a “safer alternative.” Their deception is dangerous – and deadly.
When manipulative and deceitful marketing is disguised as empathy and support, it’s easier to hook historically excluded groups.
Cigarette butts are made of microplastics – tiny toxic fibers that can contaminate our food chain and could make their way to you.
Exposure to secondhand smoke can happen at work, at home, or even outdoors – which puts everyone at risk for serious health problems.
For too long the tobacco industry has been strategically killing the Black community with menthol cigarettes.
California has already protected people from other harmful products, and it's time to hold the tobacco industry to the same standards.
