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It’s impossible to escape the media in the 21st century. Everywhere one turns there’s an advertisement, logo, or brand name looking them in the face. Just the way the industry wants it to be. The cigarette industry has figured out how to use this to their advantage. Cigarette corporations have capitalized the industry. Every year hundreds of thousands of people die from smoking-related causes alone. According to the American cancer society, in 1982, the Surgeon General’s report stated, “Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States.� Seeing that this was true in 1982, it still stands fact today (Cigarette Smoking). How has the industry so widely accepted the fact that something so harmful can be marketed and sold to others? Throughout the last century, advertising of cigarettes has become a second nature and Many people don’t even realize that they are being targeted by these ads. In the last century, however there have been two......

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