Why Big Tobacco? And why healthy eating issues?
Hmmm. Where do we start? Let’s do Big Tobacco first. This is an industry that talks about young people as “replacement customers,” more specifically, to replace the people who die everyday from using their products. Big Tobacco has been marketing a deadly product and has been lying to the public for decades. Tobacco companies continue to stand in the way of smoke-free workplace policies and other efforts to protect public health, and they continue to contribute to the death of 1200 Americans every single day. Those are just a few of the reasons why we are fighting back. If you need a few more, just check out what Big Tobacco has to say in our Tobacco Documents section. If you ever asked the question “Is the tobacco industry really that bad?” the documents they write will quickly answer that question. And healthy eating is at the top of our list too. We figured, why only focus on the number one preventable cause of death in the U.S.? We need to get started on number two. Obesity is the
