Cigarettes And The Power Of Advertising To Destroy;On Full Display In Africa

                                   In many countries, smoking is on the decline. Not so in many countries in Africa, where cigarette companies find fertile ground to sell their cancer causing addiction. Instead of responsible advertising, the cigarette companies do what many other for profit and nonprofit organizations do- sell lies and distortions. Exaggerate the truth and hide the negative.
                                   The power of advertising to lead people to where they should not go is on full display in the world of cigarettes. Unlike many for profit and nonprofit entities that use advertising to mislead and separate a person from their money, the cigarette companies add the additional harm of giving the consumer a cancer causing addiction.
                                   Humans are more than one dimensional consumers, but not so in the manipulative world of advertising, best typified by cigarette advertising. Hook a living being on a harmful addiction, and it is all win win for the cigarette companies. The person buys the product, the company makes a profit, and the real cost; cancer, heart disease and the host of other diseases that result, are borne by society at large, not the cigarette companies.