The Boycott Against Tobacco Companies

Other Actions:  Issues Not Addressed By the Koop-Kessler Committee

Support the Creation of Tobacco User Medical Funds

It is grossly unfair to expect non-tobacco users to pay for the healthcare of tobacco users.  Privately insured tobacco users do pay their healthcare costs in higher premiums.  However for the uninsured, the government pays healthcare costs.  And it is wrong to make all taxpayers pay for tobacco-related healthcare costs.  The tobacco companies make the profit and the tobacco companies (and their customers) should pay the costs. 

Band the Creation of Shell Organizations

The best know shell organization, the Council on Tobacco Research, for many years conspired to hide the unhealthy aspects of tobacco use.  Currently, tobacco companies still create shell organizations to sponsor advertising to combat legislation that they feel threatens them.  This abuse of the legislative process cannot be tolerated. 

Clean Up Tobacco Liter

Walk down any city street around the world and you will see it littered with cigarette butts.   Not only city streets, but country roads, beaches and parks have widespread tobacco litter.  Tobacco companies must develop a quickly degradable version of their product, encourage their users to “dispose of properly,” and pay for tobacco cleanup throughout the world.

Past Payments

For many years the tobacco companies have been making people sick and all taxpayers have been paying for the healthcare.  The exact dollar amount due to the citizens of the U. S. in reparations is difficult to determine.  Currently, there are negotiations and lawsuits by federal and state governments trying to determine these amounts. 

Because of the complex issues associated with this settlement process, its difficult for the average consumer to know what a just settlement would be.  So, Conscientious Consumers will only support a settlement with the tobacco company that is also supported by Public Citizen, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association.

Example of Shell Tobacco Organizations:
See Front Groups in the Public Citizen Report: Don’t Be Fooled Again
http://www.citizen.org/
tobacco/fooled.htm
Astro-Turf:  Bogus Grass-Root Groups and the Tobacco Industry
http://www.toolworks.com/
bilofsky/astrotrf.htm
The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed
http://www.no-smoke.org/
nsa.html
A Chronology of Tobacco Litigation and Settlements
Action and Smoking and Health
http://ash.org/july99/
07-08-99-4.html

Tobacco Settlement Watchdogs
Public Citizen
http://www.publiccitizen.org
American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org
American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org

The Costs Of Tobacco Use

Should Tobacco be Legal?

Tobacco Company's Bad Faith

The Conscientious Consumer's Response

Objectionable Company Actions

Responding 
as a Conscientious Consumer

Action Against Tobacco Companies

Actions Against Politicians

Other Actions

The Right Way to Boycott Tobacco

Other Actions

Tobacco Companies and Their Non-Tobacco Products

Resources

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