CTFK and Y Street hype Kick Butts Day with more lies

[Bill Godshall]

CTFK and Y Street hype Kick Butts Day by lying about health risks and marketing of tobacco products, encouraging youth use
Kick Butts Day

Today, March 21, is CTFK's Kick Butts Day here in the US. So you'll probably see lots of outrageous propaganda by anti tobacco industry extremists.

Y Street is the VA settlement funded group that showed youth pictures of never-before-seen dissolvable tobacco products placed beside similar looking easily recognized candy products, then asked the youth if they believed the tobacco products looked like candy, and then issued a press release claiming that youth believe dissolvable tobacco products look like candy and appeal to youth.

The FDA was so impressed with Y Street's junk science propaganda that they invited Y Street to present at the January TPSAC meeting in yet another attempt to demonize and misrepresent the health risk/benefit profile and marketing practices of dissolvable tobacco products.

 

[Vocalek]

Big Tobacco spends one million dollars every hour to recruit kids as "replacement smokers" for the over 400,000 Americans killed each year by tobacco.

Oh, really? Matt Myers is falling down on the job. He should be reporting these violations of the Master Settlement Agreement. Oh wait, he can't, because they don't really exist.

Where is the proof that advertising recruits kids to smoke? In a poll that I posted back in May, 2011, the #1 reason, selected by 69%, was "My friends were doing it," followed by "My parents smoked," selected by 23.3%. It was a tie among "Catchy advertising," "Candy and/or fruit flavors," and "Attractive packing," with each getting ZERO percent of the votes. The other 2.52% (inexplicably) selected, "I saw some stranger smoking and it looked cool."

 

[tommy2bad]

It must be coordinated though, this change of terms from smoking to tobacco use. Here in Ireland it hasn't happened yet but American culture being the global culture, I'v noticed people using the 'tobacco use' term in everyday speech and I've never seen it on any health dep literature or TV advert or campaign.
Worse is the misconception that nicotine is the thing that causes cancer. Hell, even my sis in law told me she wouldn't us an ecig because it all nicotine so what difference? Still smoking 20 a day and a call back after a mammogram hasn't changed a thing.

 

[rothenbj]

"The other 2.52% (inexplicably) selected, "I saw some stranger smoking and it looked cool.""

Translated "I saw some stranger smoking and he/she was hot so I tried smoking to impress him/her".

 

[VapApe]

Scratches head. Were are all these adds and marketing. I must live under a rock, I haven't seen any.

We must start calling them out on this, and point out that flavoring alone is not marketing to children.
If that were the case then we should pull all flavored alcohol from the shelves.

 

[Vocalek]

"The other 2.52% (inexplicably) selected, "I saw some stranger smoking and it looked cool.""

Translated "I saw some stranger smoking and he/she was hot so I tried smoking to impress him/her".

One thing I didn't think about when I created the poll was seeing someone smoking in a movie or on TV. Presumably an attractive someone.

 

[TennDave]

What a shame to use kids for propaganda. Reminds me of those religious sects that bring their kids to the door- they push past you and are in your house before you know it- then you have to deal with their pushy parents or other-wise adults. They might even "borrow" these kids to do what they do. Unfortunately, the kids end up getting brain washed and think they're doing the "right thing."

 

[cigarbabe]

What a shame to use kids for propaganda. Reminds me of those religious sects that bring their kids to the door- they push past you and are in your house before you know it- then you have to deal with their pushy parents or other-wise adults. They might even "borrow" these kids to do what they do. Unfortunately, the kids end up getting brain washed and think they're doing the "right thing."

That is exactly what they do.
They've been using this precise practice of having kids to push their agenda's in Boston for many years now.
They kids just repeat from a list of "facts" which they have been presented with and if possible ad lib some phrase they think applies to the moment and /or product like in the ecig bans last year.
"It's safer to smoke a cigarette than use ecigs they cause cancer I don't want my mother using them".
Sure kid, sure.
You just keep telling that to yourself and your mama.
How low won't they stoop?
Apparently there is no floor beneath to stop them.
I used to think kids were smarter than kids in my teen years.
Not anymore sadly.
C.B.