What Is The Adult Use Of Tobacco Survey

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The largest competitor of RJ Reynolds is Philip Morris USA, which nowadays owns the biggest tobacco market share in the US. Philip Morris & Co was founded in 1847. First, it was a London tobacco shop that started making tobacco products.
More than 150 years later, PM was a leading manufacturer of cigarettes in the US (a number one position since 1983). Its headquarters is situated in Richmond. Now they produce some of the most well-known brands in the consumer products industry which include Marlboro, Virginia Slims, L&M, and Parliament. These brands are best-selling cigarette brands in the US and are well-known all over the world.
Marlboro is the most purchased brand in all 50 states as well as the number one cigarette brand for all the smokers …show more content…

The other 29% believed that second-hand smoke is "somewhat harmful", 10% answered "not too harmful", while 5% said "not at all harmful". All in all, this means that 95% of people believe that smoking is harmful to some degree (Saad, Lydia, 25 July 2007). This results dramatically differ from the outcomes of the research conducted in 1986. The “Adult Use of Tobacco Survey” showed that, basically, 69%of all respondents (62% of former smokers, 74% of never smokers) were sure that passive smoking was harmful to their health. And 71% of all respondents (43% of current smokers, 74% of former smokers, and 85% of never smokers) were not pleased or irritated by the cigarette smoke of others. By 26% more people believed that passive smoking was harmful. (Appendix8) This statistics shows that the anxiety and annoyance with public smoking were steadily growing in the American society during these years. Besides, Americans as highly individualistic people, who have a strong government and a quite mighty FDA, prefer a ban on smoking and various restrictions even for smokeless cigarettes rather than a respect for other smokers, by allowing them to use smokeless cigarettes which are safe for