Smoking Questions

Questions
1. Why is an improving economy positively correlated with smoking rates?
More people are buying smokes, so the economy is making more money
2. What challenges do public health officials face as smoking expands globally?
They dont have enough money or the resources to tell and show people how bad smoking is for them so there are minimal regulations
3. The article says companies are starting aggressive efforts to "push smoking in countries where there had been relatively little effort to discourage it." Is it ethical for companies to increase their smoking advertising in developing countries? Why or why not?
No, it is not eithical because smoking is just as bad for people in countries where there has been little efforts to discourage it as in a country where there have huge efforts to discourage it.
4. Would you take a great paying job as an accountant for a cigarette company? why or why not.
Yes, becaure you are not dealing with tobacco, you are just dealing with the money. You dont promote sale and you are not distributing it you are just doing a job.
5. Research the history of cigarette advertising in the U.S. and comment at how the adds have changed over time. What types marketing was regulated by the government?(you could post some ad examples here)
When people first started using tobacco they thought it was a "cure all". People used it for dressing wounds and for easing pain, it was said to be good for you. There were lots of advertisement on what you could be, or how you could look if you used tobacco, but now trought out the years to come, people started to disccover the bad effects of tobacco on humans. Now people are fighting harded then ever to get rid of tobacco. The types of advertisement that is regulated by the government are ads that promote tobacco to minors.