Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use

Key messages:

• →Tobacco products kill more than 8 million people every year. Tobacco and related industries must continuously find new consumers to replace the ones that their products are killing to maintain revenue.

•  →Tobacco companies spent over 8 billion in marketing and advertising and the world lost 8 million lives from causes related to tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke.

•  →Tobacco and related industries’ tactics to market to children and adolescents include...

Breast cancer. Smoking tobacco increases the risk of breast cancer in women who started before they got pregnant for the first time (Gaudet, 2013).

Lung cancer. Smoking tobacco is a significant risk factor for developing lung cancer. The risk increases with daily use, cumulative doses, the number of years of consumption and onset at an early age (Caicojya, 2003).

References

- Gaudet, M., Gapstur, S. M., & Sun, J. (2013). Active...