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Cigarettes Impact
Cigarettes Impact
Cigarettes Impact
we're talking about 2 bilion 747 planes LOADED (sarat) with men, women and childern
BLOWING UP (meledak) in the sky every single hour of the day, every single day
that would be EQUIVALENT (setara) to the number from the september 11 attacks
which killed nearly 3,000 people, hapening six and a half times a day
Cigarettes even OUTRANK (lebih tinggi dri) AK-47 RIFLES ATOMIC (senapan atom) BOMBS
AND DYNAMITES
have you ever wondered why most governments in the world have anti-smoking
movements
but none of them banned tobacco manufacturing?
in 1990, the french goverment collected 1.2 milion francs per minutes
in 1977, the japanese's goverment budget collected 13 bilion from cigarette taxes
and the 1984 the small island of cyprus still earned 11 million pound from
cigarette tax
for ages. tobacco companies in the united kingdom have been known for the mass
manufacturing of cigarettes
every year the world produces 6 million tons of cigarettes
the united statesaccound for 1 million tons of those total
the business profit is worth tens of billions of dollars
in the U.S tobacco companies power is reflected through their contribution to the
goverment
budget, which is a crucial part to the development and survival of that country
therefore (karena itu), the tobacco companies are untouchable since their 'evil'
impacts have reached
deeply into the goverment
they LOBBY (melobi) every goverment ELECTION (pemilihan), as well as support the
goverment's finances
politicians dont dare to DEFY (menentang) tobacco companies because they do not
want their politician career to end
PREMATURELY (sebelum waktunya). the history of the world tobacco industry is long
and it has been growing with a great number of mysterious bussines AFFAIRS
(urusan), and political manipulations.
spokespersons from these center were all related to this 'dirty' money
they claimed that there was no EVIDENCE (bukti) that proved cigarettes caused
cancer, NOR (juga bukan) did any ingredients
in cigarettes lead to cancer
in fact, about one third of all cancer deaths are related to tobacco use
tobacco companies have made people believe that cigarettes are healthy by paying
millions of dollars
for celebrities to smoke cigarettes on movie, or paying famous athletes to be
cigarettes spokespersons
the movement took millions dollars from the goverment budget, but fines from
smoking illegally
were also profitable.
this movement had made a huge impact around the world other country started to
follow
with financial power, the tobacco companies spend load of money to RECRUIT
(merekrut) the smartest ad most skillful
employees to protect empire, including managers, salespeople, lawyers, doctors,
spokepersons and many more
everyone OPERATES (beroperasi) like a WELL-OILED machine. they ready to face any
problems threatening their empire
due to the large contribution to the goverment budget from tobacco companies,
cigarettes not only
ENCOURAGED (mendorong) to be manufactured but also protected secretly or publicly
therefore, the goverment will mot allow any organizatons to pressure or inlfuence
cigarettes manufacturing
the goverment just VAGUELY ACCUSE (menuduh samar samar) the negative effects of
cigarette by IMPRINTING (cetak)
some useless warning
on the pack of cigarette, which no one pays attention to
OCCASIOANLLY (kadang2), there were some wining cases against tobacco companies in
the COURT.
However, that might be an action of REASSURING (meyakinkan) the public opinion
with these intimidating figures, tobacco companies arround the world have GROSSED
(meraup)
765 billion but they also killed 7 million people every year
isn't ironic how most goverment PROHIBIT (melarang) smoking in public but still
allowed cigarettes manufacturing?