...Ethical Dilemma - Tobacco Industry A. What stakeholders are affected by the U.S. tobacco industry's production and marketing of cigarettes? What stakeholder interests are impacted? How does the tobacco industry prioritize these stakeholders? Do you agree with the tobacco industry's prioritization? Why or why not? According to Wikipedia, a stakeholder is defined as a person, group, organization, member or system who affects or can be affected by an organization’s actions. There are several stakeholders that have been affected by the U.S. tobacco industry’s production and marketing of cigarettes. The retail tobacco companies are one such group that is undoubtedly affected by the developments affecting the production and marketing of cigarettes. Companies like Phillip Morris USA, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and British American Tobacco Limited who are interesting in profit maximization and return on investment felt that they were unfairly targeted by the imposition of restricted marketing activities and efforts to reduce the consumption of cigarettes. The tobacco companies believe that the law is excessive and will result in an increase in the cost of modifying packages and inversely, a reduction in net profit. The state (government) is also affected by the issues surrounding the tobacco industry. The government is faced with a slight dilemma because they are the regulator of the industry and the product is a legal product which is known to be harmful to both smokers...
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...Activities could be done • ‘Youth access’ – enforcing laws that prevent retailers selling to under-age smokers; • ‘Responsible marketing’ – tobacco companies have agreed a code which they claim amounts to responsible marketing for their products • ‘Counter-marketing’ – tobacco company’s pay for advertising aimed at persuading young people not to smoke. • Cigarette selling should be prohibited in public places rather smoking should allowed in some restricted places only. • Not only should admit or defence the marketing code rather they should go for a accommodation or proaction. • They should maintain their marketing code in such a way so that their competitors become influenced to follow their own marketing codes too. • By no means, discrimination can exist. Meaning, company should promote its business or maintaining its marketing codes in possible fairways across the world. • They should arrange employee seminars to create consciousness among them so that their basic instinct will hold them from wrong doing or unethical issues. • In order to create more consciousness among the human being, they should have mandatory seminars to let their consumers know about the consequences of being tobacco addictions • Arrange a TV program and telecast it on national TV channels focusing on the consequences of smoking habits and other effects of tobacco addiction. • Stop direct or indirect advertising at a public place and their current advertising policy should be more effective. • Global...
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...dSocial Problem Homework Social Problems 8 am Crafting a Social Problems Claim A social problem that many do not take the time to look into depth would be smoking in public places. Smoking in public is a problem in many different ways, some are that not only does it cause health issues; it puts others at risk, and those who could be allergic to smoke in general. People should care about this social problem simply because not only does this problem harms the people who are engaging in this practice, but it harms innocent people who have not done a thing. The cause of the problem I deeper than what most would think. Smoking begins with having social change and problems out in the world. People often smoke to ease their minds, to get away from their problems that they are having, and while some do so only to fit in with a group of their peers. It is amazing how such a small moment decision can affect many lives within the world. Stop smoking in all public places is the set goal for this social problem, and some may ask why?, but when we look at many commercials on the television on people are dying every single day to some type of cancer caused from smoking. My question would be to everyone who has made up their minds that smoking should not be banned in public places that would you want your family be harmed or even die from someone else causing their bodily harm or deaths. Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death. It is a prime...
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...of a contested issue, requiring a 'yes' vote, in which citizen proponents had sufficient TV money and a simple message. Citizen initiatives in the past have faced two different problems: a campaign that is difficult to explain and paucity of resources. A smoking ban is easily understood and the issue was well-defined in voters’ minds long before the campaign began. The dangers of second-hand smoke have been understood for decades. SmokeFreeOhio raised a significant amount of money (over $1.8 million). Although as of October 18 SmokeFreeOhio had not raised enough money to cover Ohio’s media markets on their own, they were greatly assisted by free media coverage prompted by the presence of Issue 4 (Smoke Less Ohio) on the ballot. The tobacco industry’s attempt to trump SmokeFreeOhio was well publicized in newspapers and on television, and certainly contributed to public awareness of the differences between Issues 4 and 5. This helps to explain the success of the SmokeFreeOhio campaign despite the competing ballot campaign, Smoke Less Ohio (Issue 4) and this successful citizen initiative provides a template for future ballot campaigns. For an overview of Ohio’s history of ballot initiatives visit, www.ohiocitizen.org/about/training/ballot history.html. An analysis of successful ballot campaigns in Ohio is available at www.ohiocitizen.org/about/training/ballotconsiderations.html. Big Money Doesn’t Win the Day Learn and Earn/Vote Yes on Issue 3 Committee generated...
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...There is a vast difference between the cigarette commercials of the 1980's and the anti-tobacco Truth ads of today. We were sold a lie, and now many have paid the price with their health and their life. Should it be the responsibility of the tobacco industry to care for these people who have life threating illnesses caused by their products? Should they also handle the burial of the individuals who die as a result of tobacco usage? In this industry, someone has to look out of the consumers that are not looking out for themselves. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013, there were 42.1 million people in the United States that smoked cigarettes. Smoking causes many diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Smoking is considered to be the leading cause of preventable deaths in the US. It is responsible for about 480,000 deaths, including 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke. According to the CDC, the United States spends $300 billion a year on smoking-related costs to include medical care, lost productivity, and premature deaths. By now we are all well aware of the harmful effects that smoking and other use of tobacco products have on use, but according to the CDC 3,200 people under the age of 18 smoked their first cigarette today. Choosing to smoke is a personal choose that affects many. If an employer is required to pay a higher insurance premium...
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...this case cigarette manufacturer Altria Group (MO) had no choice. The Food & Drug Administration, which as of last year regulates tobacco products, banned the use of the words "mild," "light," or "low tar" on packages effective on June 22. The agency says such cigarettes are just as harmful as regular ones. Before Altria made the switch, it used the old packs to tell smokers that while the look of Marlboro Lights would change, the "cigarette stays the same." That got the FDA's attention. The agency argues many consumers will continue to assume Marlboro Golds are safer than regular smokes and has ordered Altria to hand over market research showing why it used the tactic. "What we're concerned about is that it is potentially perpetuating this untruth that these products are somehow less harmful," says Dr. Lawrence R. Deyton, the agency's top tobacco regulator. Altria spokesman Bill Phelps says the company will cooperate with the agency. Pharmaceutical companies frequently skirmish with the FDA, and Big Tobacco is widely expected to do the same. Altria was the only cigarette maker to support FDA oversight, says Phelps, because it wanted consistent rules of the game for the entire tobacco industry. Still, this is the second time Altria has clashed with federal regulators in recent months. In March it challenged the membership of an FDA tobacco science panel studying the health risks of menthol cigarettes, which account for more than a quarter of U.S. cigarette shipments. If the...
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...puts Dr. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) at odds with Brown & Williamson, the third largest tobacco company in the country. Wigand was fired from his position as Vice President of Research and Development, at which he was instructed to hide information related to the addictive nature of nicotine. The plot takes off when Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), a producer for 60 Minutes, discovers that Wigand has a story to tell. The best way for Wigand to tell that story is with the help of Bergman, via an interview aired on 60 Minutes. However, tobacco companies have a history of viciously defending their profits, by whatever means necessary, and Brown & Williamson does just that. The story hits a climax as the interests and incentives of the television station CBS, 60 Minutes, Dr. Wigand and Brown & Williamson are played out. Portrayal of Business The film portrays business in an extremely negative light. It focuses on two central conflicts – one between Brown & Williamson and Wigand, the other between CBS Corporation and Bergman. Brown & Williamson is the primary antagonist. The film is ripe with examples of the bad things they do. Their principle, most damaging offense is deceit. They are charged with covering up the addictive properties of nicotine and finding ways to exploit it to increase profits. For example, in Wigand’s interview for 60 Minutes, he says that tobacco companies view cigarettes only as a delivery device for nicotine. He also says they take advantage...
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...Internal Communication Practice in British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) 1. Introduction 1. Origin This report is prepared as part of the course requirement of “C501 Managerial Communication” and is submitted to the instructor of the course Ms. Mahjabeen Ahmad, Professor, Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka. 2. Objective The objective of this report is to study the steps, tools, process and the role of internal communication practices in British American Tobacco Bangladesh. 1.3 Scope This report contains brief overview of BATB and various aspects of its internal communication related to the objective. 4. Methodology The information of this report is collected from both primary and secondary sources. The primary source is oral interview with some company personnel while the secondary sources are company brochures and website. 1.5 Limitations The contents of this report are collected mainly through oral interview of some company personnel. Naturally they declined to give information which is confidential and related to the non-disclosed strategy of the company. So incompleteness in the information provided here is inevitable. 1.6 Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations Internal communications: Communication is often defined as an exchange of information. Internal communications includes all communication within an organisation. Internal communications may be oral or written, face to face or virtual, one-on-one...
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...Rhetorical analysis: Thank you for Smoking Watching anti-smoking or tobacco commercials is common in America. Which is to make people aware of the harmful side of smoking cigarettes, how it affects our heath by causing lung cancer and heart disease. This will be difficult for tobacco companies to sustain in the market, who get profit from cigarette smokers’ addictions. This companies hire smart lobbyists Nick Naylor to publicly protect their industry. He was the vice president of the academy of tobacco studies and also he gives legitimate argument to support his big tobacco company and he was confident with every thing he does. There is a good example where Naylor uses rhetorical appeals...
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...stakeholders are affected by the U.S. tobacco industry's production and marketing of cigarettes? What stakeholder interests are impacted? How does the tobacco industry prioritize these stakeholders? Do you agree with the tobacco industry's prioritization? Why or why not? According to Wikipedia, a stakeholder is defined as a person, group, organization, member or system who affects or can be affected by an organization’s actions. There are several stakeholders that have been affected by the U.S. tobacco industry’s production and marketing of cigarettes. The retail tobacco companies are one such group that is undoubtedly affected by the developments affecting the production and marketing of cigarettes. Companies like Phillip Morris USA, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and British American Tobacco Limited who are interesting in profit maximization and return on investment felt that they were unfairly targeted by the imposition of restricted marketing activities and efforts to reduce the consumption of cigarettes. The tobacco companies believe that the law is excessive and will result in an increase in the cost of modifying packages and inversely, a reduction in net profit. The state (government) is also affected by the issues surrounding the tobacco industry. The government is faced with a slight dilemma because they are the regulator of the industry and the product is a legal product which is known to be harmful to both smokers and non-smokers. The industry also contributes significant...
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...The Altria Group, Inc. Often referred to as “the house the Marlboro Man built”, The Altria Group, Inc. is the world’s largest tobacco company. Altria operates its cigarette business through the companies known as Phillip Morris USA and Philip Morris International, both of which sell Marlboro – the world’s largest selling cigarette brand since 1972 (“The Altria Group,” n.d.). This company controls about half of the US tobacco market. This is also the parent company of Kraft Foods. I chose to do a paper on this particular company because of the practices of lies and deceit that it has followed for many years. Some of the behaviors that I find socially and ethically irresponsible are that the company continually down plays the addictiveness and severe risk to health that their product can cause. Over the years the company has been under scrutiny for many different things including the practice of employing under age children to hand out cigarettes, falsifying legal and medical documents, and the paying off of political and legal leaders to accomplish the things that it wants done. This corporation has also been listed in the Wall Street Journal as Number 1 in a list of the top 10 worst places for a woman to work because of the fact that there are no women in any upper management positions and they employ nearly 75,000 people in the Philip Morris US plant alone (“Unethical Companies,” n.d.). At the annual shareholders meeting in 2011, Philip Morris International celebrated...
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...Tobacco is one of the world’s largest consumer goods industries despite pressuring environmental forces that try to diminish its market share. It has a long withstanding global history as a profitable business model rooted on a leisure activity. The use of tobacco first started to spread in the late 15th century after a crewman aboard the Christopher Columbus voyage noticed Cuban natives igniting and inhaling smoke from dried tobacco leaves. News returned to Spain, spreading the smoking experience, which lead to the production of the world’s first cigar. By the 1600’s the use of Tobacco reached much of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Although paper cigarettes were developed around the same time as cigars, the first push for factory production came in 1881 with the issuance of a patent for a cigarette rolling machine that could produce 120,000 units daily. By 1944, there were roughly 300 billion cigarettes produced annually.[i] However, the industry would take a turn in 1964 when the Surgeon General of the United States reported the dangers and health risks of cigarette smoking. The tobacco industry has been combating consumer health awareness, governmental restrictions and taxes, and anti-smoking lobbying despite increased profitability ever since its introduction to the global market. Estimates place the current industry revenue at $465BN and gross profit at $280.3BN for 2010. After taxes the estimated net profit will account for approximately 8.5% of...
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...distributed * Entrepreneurial Politics - Benefits are widely distributed, harm is concentrated S.1415 was an outgrowth of the Tobacco Resolution. Tobacco Resolution is an example of “entrepreneurial politics”. The resolution was a result of a negotiated bargain among the state attorneys general, tobacco companies, and class action lawyers. The lawyers represented the class-action plaintiffs looking to file a claim. The interests comprised of the trial lawyers and the state attorneys, plaintiffs and taxpayers, acting as entrepreneurs and the tobacco companies bearing the costs of the resolution. The motivations of the bargainers were distributive and probably moral. The state attorneys general, sought funds to cover healthcare costs borne by taxpayers through the state budget and also wanted to position themselves for political success. The S.1415 is an example of “client politics”. The stakes are mostly distributive. The bill sought to increase tobacco regulation including giving the FDA authority to regulate tobacco as a drug. The bill also restricted tobacco advertising and promotions and imposed an excise tax on the price of each cigarette. According to its provisions retail stores would require a license to sell tobacco. Liability of tobacco companies would be capped at $6.5 billion a year. The interests in favor of the bill include include tobacco companies, trial lawyers for plaintiffs, cigarette only stores, state attorneys, antismoking groups such as ASH, ENACT, the...
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...outline the ethical failings of Tobacco marketing in the US in “The Ethics of Tobacco Marketing.” In this research paper, the authors juxtapose the American Marketing Association’s ethical norms against the Kantian theory of ethics to expose that by marketing tobacco products and betraying their duty to “do no harm” tobacco marketers fail the Kantian standard of ethics to act only in a manner worthy of becoming a universal law (Carlson and Luhrs). The paper outlines the dangers associated with marketing tobacco products when the marketing is extremely effective, pervasive, aimed at vulnerable children and deceitful resulting in high levels of addiction, sickness and ultimately death (Carlson and Luhrs). Carlson and Luhrs point out that “one would not consider doing harm to others or acting dishonestly as worthy of a universal law.” While this ethical failing, by Kantian standards, is evident in the US, the ethical failings of tobacco corporations are compounded when this marketing is done in developing countries with even more vulnerable populations. In her March 2010 article, “Phillip Morris Pushing Smoking Hard in Foreign Countries,” Anne Landman outlines the tactics that Tobacco giant Phillip Morris had begun to use in developing countries to sell their product because the market for tobacco products in the US had decreased. These tactics included utilizing strategies that had proven successful in the US prior to the decline of tobacco, fear mongering and exploiting the...
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...Tobacco Industry Irma Paul Business Ethics 309 May 5th, 2015 As a consumer, the tobacco industry should be stop producing, cigarettes, cigars and pipes and selling them to our youth and adults. Smoking is one of the major causes of death in many countries and around the world. Smoking leads to diseases and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. More than 16 million American are leaving with a disease caused by smoking. Each year around half a million American die of tobacco related diseases, and the other die from secondhand smoke. CDC… (n.d). According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s there have been more 20 million smoking-related deaths in the United States since 1964. . – cancer.org ... (n.d). As result 2.5 million American died from exposure to secondhand smoke. – cancer.org ... (n.d). The immune system is the only way of protecting our body from any infection or diseases. People who smoke are more likely to have respiratory infection. CDC... (n.d). Tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million per year by 2030. More than 80% of those deaths will be in low-and middle-income countries. Tobacco facts. (n.d.). According to World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco is one of the biggest health threats we ever faced in America and around the globe. Due to the fact, every six second a person dies due to Tobacco-related. If tobacco industry knows that medical evidence says that smoking will kill you, why tobacco industry keeps selling them...
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