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Fact 1
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-1.jpgDespite the tobacco industry claiming that they don’t target children, a 1986 Harvard study showed that more 6 years old knew Joe Camel than Mickey Mouse.
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Fact 2
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-2.jpgWood is often burned to dry the tobacco leaves in cigarettes. It can take up to 5.7lbs of wood to dry enough tobacco for just one pack of cigarettes.
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Fact 3
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-3.jpgEvery day, 1,200 people die from tobacco-related diseases. In response, the industry calls youth “replacement smokers.”
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Fact 4
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-4.jpgInternal tobacco documents revealed a cigarette marketing campaign called Project SCUM, short for Sub-Cultural Urban Marketing designed to target gays, lesbians and homeless people in San Francisco.
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Fact 5
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-5.jpgIn 2001, Phillip Morris funded a study for the Czech Republic that claimed the country would save $1,227 in health care, pensions and elderly housing for every smoker that dies prematurely from smoking.
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Fact 6
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-6.jpgWhen a tobacco executive was asked if he smoked, he said, “We don’t smoke. We reserve that ‘right’ for the young, the poor, the black, and the stupid.”
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Fact 7
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-7.jpgAt 440,000 lives every year, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Tobacco causes more deaths than AIDS, illegal drugs, homicides, car accidents, fires, and alcohol COMBINED.
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Fact 8
http://defythelies.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/facts-8.jpgThe industry claimed they only test on rodents, which was a lie. When they had to release internal documents, we found out that they also tested on dogs and monkeys.
