Thursday, July 17, 2008

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
Tobacco companies "use primarily scenes that have been used for 50 years here to market overseas," says Nancy Kaufman, vice president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and co-author of a WHO report on the global marketing of tobacco to women. Kaufman says many of the regions tobacco companies target include Asia, Africa, India and former Soviet bloc nations — areas in which the rates of smoking among women are far lower than for men. Besides advertising, many companies also give out free cigarette samples and sponsor cultural and athletic events in countries where tobacco advertising is restricted or severely limited, she says. Marketing in China"By marketing to women, by getting women addicted to tobacco, you sort of help reinforce tobacco use as a normal activity," says Ross Hammond,

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