What makes you think the PMI lawyers ever saw the letter? This is what marketers do. They lie to make sales.
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Unfortunately, unlike Jon he is on only once a week, though without the ads on HBO he manages to cram a lot of info into his comedic vehicle in one full half hour.
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Iād read about these shenanigans years ago and Iām glad that Last Week Tonight has taken this up. CLASSIC!!
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Sorry. It is beyond belief that a company that size would send a letter re a narrow legal issue (trademark infringement and international arbitration settlement) that it did not run by its legal department firstā¦ unless company lawyers told Marketing to leave them out of this loop to maintain plausible deniability, which is equally reprehensible ethically.
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I prefer ādeconstructedā and then rebroadcast truthilly
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There are more deaths attributable to tobacco then all the illicit drugs put together. There is no known benefit from smoking or chewing tobacco.
While I understand how hard it is to quit smoking, it took me six years to quit after my heart attack, there is no beneficial use of this toxic substance. The sales of tobacco products should be banded. Current users could be given a Rx for the poison if choice but there is no need for over the counter sales of the most addictive product in the world. Society doesnāt need any more smokers created who will drain public funding for end of life services.
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They would be perfectly happy if Oliver had maintained their product tasted like springtime,had physicians shilling for the health benefits or doing a bit about the research findings (fake) citing tobacco as a health hazardā¦60 years on and weāre STILL too gullible to tell these pricks to go blow smoke up their OWN ass.
The laws are even stricter than the segment mentioned in Aus.
Not only does the packaging have the plain packaging, it is illegal to display cigarettes for sale.
Four top executives of American tobacco companies in sworn testimony before Congress: āSmoking is not addictive-- anyone can quit anytime they wantā¦ Smoking does not conclusively cause cancer or any other illnessā¦ Tobacco companies do not advertise to entice new smokersā - Baltimore Sun 11/8/93
Now Philip Morris admits in its press release that its product āis harmful to health.ā
It also purports to give a ābalanced approachā to the topic covered by Oliver in his piece.
Who we gonna believeā¦ A hundreds of billions dollar worldwide industry interested in maximizing revenue that has a track record of misinforming the public or anyone else, especially the comic Oliver who referred to his story as ācomically appallingā?
thatās right tobacco industryā¦give John Oliver another reason to take the mickey out you on national television.
Iāll get the popcorn
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New York City tried to make every retailer selling cigarettes post the same type of images next to the cigarette displays - since the FDA hasnāt been able to get similar packaging approved here, but they pulled the plug - apparently people were too freaked out while paying for their morning coffee and lottery tickets.
Perhaps the idea of marketing their products to Islamic populations makes sense, eh ?
āwe take seriously the responsibility that comes with selling a product that is an adult choice and is harmful to health.ā
If you took it seriously, you wouldnāt be selling the product, ace.
Also, as an ad guy, I have to say his takedown of the āMaybeā brand video was painfully spot-on.
Itās interesting to see all the people who get whipped into an anti-corporatist frenzy about neonicotinoid pesticides and bees, who never seem to pay much attention to the actual name. Nicotine was formerly widely used as an insecticide (tobacco has very few pests because of it), but itās so toxic to people that neonicotinoids were developed as a safer alternative.
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Who knew there was niche opening in the news business called, the news, the hard investigating kind of real news. In fact, niche is the wrong word, its more of a Grand Canyon sized gap.
An entire month of the year, at least, needs to be dedicated to the eradication of tobacco usage, just like breast cancer awareness month.
Big Tobacco, AKA Big Death, should be publically shamed or maybe Phillip Morris could be sentenced to sitting in a room 8 hours a day and made to rebreathe some second hand smoke until heās lungless.
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Kind of ironic that states ban marijuana cigarettes but not nicotine ones.
Alleviating pain bad, dying good.
Great plan!
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back in the day, commercials promoted the health benefits of tobacco cigs
Iād suggest Big Tobacco, as an offer of goodwill on behalf of their supposedly non-addictive and only mildly harmful product, start their own insurance pool for smokers. Pay all smoking-related health care costs. I would joke and say they should diversify into the casket business, but they probably already have.
then they got the shit sued out of them and moved their major operations overseas.
Tobacco is PR 100%. How else do you get people to inhale toxic chemicals from disgusting death sticks and make them think that it is a good thing?
The key is getting people hooked and hooked young and these bastards target children no matter their rhetoric.