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Tobacco ads targeted at minors

lundi 21 juillet 2014 à 14:00

RJ Reynolds has been hit with 23 billion dollars in punitive damages for advertising designed to make minors smoke.

The article says "children", but adolescents are not children, so I won't use that word. Advertising tobacco to adolescents is arguably even worse than advertising it to children, since children are not likely to start smoking whereas adolescents may well do so.