Key Messages
Tobacco Industry: Manipulating the youth into a lifelong addiction

The tobacco industry manipulates the youth into a lifelong addiction through flavors and targeted marketing. It publicizes its so-called contributions to society to mask long-term health and socio-economic harms while keeping children in tobacco farms and lobbying against policies that protect children. More so, top tobacco companies’ vaping product brands are widely advertised in sports events; with fancy brands splashed onto fast cars designed to target the youth then streamed online to young audience. |