Tobacco Case Study

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This case study summarize the argument in favor of the ban on tobacco advertising in Indian such as using animated camel, encouraging them to smoke, by damaging their health and enhancing the states expenditure, question where also raise about the economic impact, because the tobacco company contributed to the growth of the employment issue to 26 million people, so they argued that tobacco consumption and employment show policies are likely to reduce smoking and not decreased employment, because even if people stop smoking the money will be spend on other expenditures such as goods and services which were more labour intensive and produce more jobs. So this favor the tobacco company in producing and creating more jobs. However, the world bank report has pointed out that policymakers who want to control tobacco should be aware of the fact that bans on advertising and promotions would prove effective, only if they were …show more content…

So the moral behavior of people and ethical behavior has a role to play in countries and individual choice on their smoking habit. Shunu Sen, CEO, Quadra Advisory, said, "Excess of anything is bad. Excess of coffee, tea. Whatever", they argued that the ban was unjustified, as advertisement didn 't promote smoking, and that the ban was not the right solutions to be problems, whereby, the Cigarette companies expressed concern that the ban would deny them level-playing filed. (Philip Morris, 1982-2001, cited in Food, Beverage and

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