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In 2014, Big Tobacco spent $7.12 billion discounting products at the "point of sale" — a.k.a. where people buy things (like the counter at a drugstore).

1. U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Cigarette Report for 2014, 2016, https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents
/reports/federal-tradecommission-
cigarette-report-2014-federal-trade-commission-smokeless-tobacco-report/ftc_cigarette_report_2014.pdf;
2. FTC, Smokeless Tobacco Report for 2014, 2016, https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents
/reports/federal-trade-commission-cigarette-report-2014-federal-trade-commission-smokeless-tobacco-report/ftc_smokeless_tobacco_report_2014.pdf

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Advertising products at the point-of-sale at convenience stores increases "impulse buys" and makes tobacco seem like a part of everyday life. Which is probably why Big Tobacco spends 95% of its $9.1 billion yearly budget here.

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Center for Public Health Systems Science. Point-of-Sale Report to the Nation: The Tobacco Retail and Policy Landscape. St. Louis, MO: Center for Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and the National Cancer Institute, State and Community Tobacco Control Research Initative, 2014. http://publichealthlawcenter.org/sites/default
/files/resources/WaU-guide-POS-policy-report-2015.pdf

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Studies show that there is a positive connection between tobacco promotions and the people who see them's susceptibility to smoking.

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Paynter J, Edwards R. The impact of tobacco promotion at the point of sale: a systematic review. Nicotine Tob Res. 2009;11:25–35.

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Advertising, Cigarettes

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Young adults report seeing heavier advertising for tobacco at the point-of-sale than on any other advertsiting platform

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Center for Public Health Systems Science. Point-of-Sale Report to the Nation: The Tobacco Retail and Policy Landscape, 2014.
https://cphss.wustl.edu/Products/
ProductsDocuments/ASPiRE_2016_ReportToTheNation.pdf

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In cities like DC, there are up to 10 times more tobacco ads in black neighborhoods than other neighborhoods.

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American Journal of Public Health : Peer Reviewed. "Marketing Little Cigars and Cigarillos: Advertising, Price,
and Associations With Neighborhood Demographics" ; Jennifer Cantrell, DrPH, MPA, Jennifer M. Kreslake, MPH, Ollie Ganz, MSPH, Jennifer L. Pearson, PhD, MPH, Donna Vallone, PhD, MPH,
Andrew Anesetti-Rothermel, MPH, Haijun Xiao, MS, and Thomas R. Kirchner, PhD ; October 2013, Vol 103, No. 10

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Advertising, Profiling

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Cigarette companies spend almost ALL their marketing budget on discounting cigarettes.

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"Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report of 2014." Federal Trade Commission, 2016.

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Big Tobacco recognized the big business opportunity of targeting the military. In fact, in one tobacco memo, they even flagged that the military market equates to the size of New York.

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Newport Planning Memo, Jan 1983

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In the 90s, Big Tobacco sent free cigarettes to troops deployed overseas during Desert Storm.

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Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2009). “Everywhere the Soldier Will Be”: Wartime Tobacco Promotion in the US Military. American Journal of Public Health, 99(9), 1595–1602. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2008.152983

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During Desert Storm, Big Tobacco sent Marlboro-branded merch to troops deployed in Saudi Arabia.

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Smith, E. A., & Malone, R. E. (2009). Tobacco Promotion to Military Personnel: “The Plums Are Here to Be Plucked.” Military Medicine, 174(8), 797–806.

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Fact In 2014, Big Tobacco spent $7.12 billion discounting products at the "point of sale" — a.k.a. where people buy things (like the counter at a drugstore).

Fact Advertising products at the point-of-sale at convenience stores increases "impulse buys" and makes tobacco seem like a part of everyday life. Which is probably why Big Tobacco spends 95% of its $9.1 billion yearly budget here.

Fact Studies show that there is a positive connection between tobacco promotions and the people who see them's susceptibility to smoking.

Fact Young adults report seeing heavier advertising for tobacco at the point-of-sale than on any other advertsiting platform

Fact In cities like DC, there are up to 10 times more tobacco ads in black neighborhoods than other neighborhoods.

Fact Cigarette companies spend almost ALL their marketing budget on discounting cigarettes.

Fact Big Tobacco recognized the big business opportunity of targeting the military. In fact, in one tobacco memo, they even flagged that the military market equates to the size of New York.

Fact In the 90s, Big Tobacco sent free cigarettes to troops deployed overseas during Desert Storm.

Fact During Desert Storm, Big Tobacco sent Marlboro-branded merch to troops deployed in Saudi Arabia.

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In 2014, Big Tobacco spent $7.12 billion discounting products at the "point of sale" — a.k.a. where people buy things (like the counter at a drugstore).

Fact

Advertising products at the point-of-sale at convenience stores increases "impulse buys" and makes tobacco seem like a part of everyday life. Which is probably why Big Tobacco spends 95% of its $9.1 billion yearly budget here.

Fact

Studies show that there is a positive connection between tobacco promotions and the people who see them's susceptibility to smoking.

Fact

Young adults report seeing heavier advertising for tobacco at the point-of-sale than on any other advertsiting platform

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In cities like DC, there are up to 10 times more tobacco ads in black neighborhoods than other neighborhoods.

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Cigarette companies spend almost ALL their marketing budget on discounting cigarettes.

Fact

Big Tobacco recognized the big business opportunity of targeting the military. In fact, in one tobacco memo, they even flagged that the military market equates to the size of New York.

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In the 90s, Big Tobacco sent free cigarettes to troops deployed overseas during Desert Storm.

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During Desert Storm, Big Tobacco sent Marlboro-branded merch to troops deployed in Saudi Arabia.