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An Adult Choice? Corporate Responsibility and the Global Face of Tobacco
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:13:31
Publish Date: 2015-09-09 13:30:58
Description: Tobacco has been a global industry for more than a century. But in the era of corporate social responsibility, how do tobacco companies justify their push to sell even more cigarettes around the world? Trade agreements like the currently proposed Trans Pacific Partnership make it easier for tobacco corporations to flood markets in low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of the world's billion tobacco users live. Peter Benson, an anthropologist from Washington University in St. Louis and author of Tobacco Capitalism, weighs in.
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