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Marlboro maker Philip Morris, is also quitting cigarettes, sort of…

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Philip Morris International has made a dramatic New Year’s resolution: “We’re trying to give up cigarettes.”
Philip Morris International has made a dramatic New Year’s resolution: “We’re trying to give up cigarettes.”

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Tobacco giant Philip Morris says it has a New Year resolution: to try to ‘give up’ cigarettes. Kate King asks whether its latest UK ad campaign is more than just a publicity stunt.

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The maker of such cigarette brands as Marlboro, L&M, Parliament and Chesterfield took out full-page ads in several newspapers in the United Kingdom that said its new ambition in 2018 is to build a smoke-free future and eventually stop selling cigarettes.

The manifesto, as described on the company’s web site, is to help people quit smoking traditional cigarettes and to one day replace them all with smoke-free alternatives like e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

The company claims the alternatives are less harmful and that “we can achieve a significant public-health benefit only when a large number of these smokers switch from cigarettes to better products.”

The Philip Morris ad states: “No cigarette company has done anything like this before. You might wonder if we really mean it.”

“The tobacco industry and its front groups have misled the public about the risks associated with other tobacco products,” the World Health Organizations said in a September 2017 statement.

“Such misleading conduct continues today with companies, including PMI, marketing tobacco products in ways that misleadingly suggest that some tobacco products are less harmful than others

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2 responses to “Marlboro maker Philip Morris, is also quitting cigarettes, sort of…”

  1. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Doctors call for carbon monoxide detectors in Shisha-Bars.

    Shisha bars sprout up everywhere like mushrooms and complete the picture of a safe pastime.
    But that is a fallacy.
    “Shisha smoking is at least as dangerous as cigarette smoking,” warns Sven Dreyer, a member of the North Rhine Medical Council and senior pressure chamber doctor at the University Hospital in Dusseldorf.
    To Glimmstengel, although less and less young people.
    The Drugs and Addiction Report 2017 mentions a survey by the Federal Center for Health Education, according to which the smoking rate among young people aged 12 to 17 has fallen from 27.5 percent to 7.4 percent in 2016 since 2001. Instead, they go to the Shisha – and that is hardly better.

    More and more teenagers smoke hookah. There you sit comfortably together and puff harmless water vapor.
    Or? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that!
    Hookahs are even more dangerous than cigarettes, warns the doctor Sven Dreyer.
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    “With the hookah, there is also the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, which in the mildest case leads to dizziness, nausea and vomiting and then passes into unconsciousness and seizures,” explains Dreyer. The odorless and colorless gas carbon monoxide is released when the coal burns on the water pipe bowl. With every bubbling pull through the shisha tube, it gets straight into the smoker’s lungs, quickly accelerating the carbon monoxide in the blood to dangerous heights. A poisoning and unconsciousness are the result.

    Shisha looks harmless. Shishas are like cigarettes, only worse.
    They look very pretty, people sit in bars together, share a hookah and blow sweet smelling steam in the air. Shishas are becoming increasingly popular among teenagers and seem to be an alternative to cigarette smoking.
    According to a report of the health insurance DAK, every second tenth grader in Germany has ever smoked tobacco from a hookah, about 15 percent of the 7000 surveyed students regularly puff.

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