L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Convenience Store, Corporate Social Responsibility, Marlboro Man
31 Oct 2016
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Implicates a range of social and public health issues: healthcare for migrant workers, etc. Corporate paternalism and the problem of harmful products by peter benson. We sell cigarettes but don(cid:495)t want to justification through caring for children and families. The case for abolition by robert n proctor. Cigarette is the only legal product that used as intended, is harmful. Tobacco use causes a massive burden of disease. This is not a vector you can intervene and prevent, it(cid:495)s a legal distribution health prevention. Tobacco led to about 480,000 deaths in 2010. Us is 5th leading smoking country in world (cid:885)(cid:882)% in china . Medicine and art are ancient as is tobacco. In the last century, 100 million people died from tobacco. In the current century, one billion will die from tobacco. The industrialization is the problem, not the tobacco. Cigarettes are cheap and with nicotine and promote chronic use.
