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Though tobacco companies’ financial support has, to some extent, helped educational development in underdeveloped areas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], their ill-motivated charitable activities are mostly harmful. Once profit-oriented sponsorship begins to prevail in the education sector, it will not only undermine charity efforts but also inflict a negative impact on students.
Wang Yanming (Beijing Times): In many countries, tobacco companies are barred from sponsoring entertainment and sports activities, let alone funding schools. In China, however, there is no legal ban on outdoor tobacco advertising although the country has ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. I do not deny tobacco companies’ efforts to undertake social responsibilities, but only that they should do so in acceptable ways.
The primary social responsibility of tobacco companies is to warn people of the harm of smoking and to encourage the youth to stay away from tobacco,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather than erecting promotional boards in schools. Currently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], China’s highest tobacco consumption tax is 56 percent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which falls far behind developed countries where the tobacco consumption tax is as high as 60-90 percent. Tobacco companies are obligated to pay high taxes and try to support other industries by transferring profits to government financial revenues.
It’s ridiculous to see them showing off “charity” through financing the construction of Hope schools. When tobacco companies have turned to Hope schools to promote their brands, it’s high time for the government to formulate laws to curb such unscrupulous and immoral behavior. “There’s a theory about this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” she says, “which is that there’s always an upward pressure on smoking.
That’s because it’s still something that’s attractive to young people, because it’s still cool. If you talk to 8-, 9- or 10- year-olds, they’ll be very anti-smoking. Puberty is when it happens: you’re independent, you want to be cool, and you’re not sure what do with your hands when you’re talking to people of the opposite sex.” But how do you fight that? You can’t ban pictures of Kate Moss smoking at awards ceremonies. “No,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you can’t. And that’s difficult.
But over generations, that will change. You need it to stop being seen as cool. And it’s beginning to go that way. My children went to a comprehensive in central London ? and actually, what amazed me was that they used to come home at night, and they didn’t smell of smoke. It is becoming less cool.” Back in Westminster, Burnham suggests that in the early-to-mid 1980s, he was ahead of the generational curve.
His experience of smoking, he assures me, is very limited indeed ? because even as an impressionable youth, he found the supposed attractions of cigarettes baffling. “I had a couple under the slide in a park when I was 14, and that was it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” he says. “I couldn’t cope with it. I genuinely have never seen any upside from it. I think it’s a unique activity in that sense.”
LONDON -The possibility of cigarettes being sold in plain packaging threatening the profitability of the world’s tobacco companies resurfaced Monday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as the U.K. government pledged to halve the number of smokers in the country over the next 10 years. Included in the U.K. government’s proposals to crack down on smoking in the U.K. Monday was a pledge to look once again at banning all logos and branding from tobacco products?a move which could set a dangerous precedent and pose a real future threat to profitability in the global tobacco industry.