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Blow Smoke to Women: how tobacco industry opens up women's market by advertising.
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Blow Smoke to Women: how tobacco industry opens up women's market by advertising ABSTRACT It is an overview of how the tobacco industry recruits new smokers and enhance brand loyalty by the techniques of targeting of women in tobacco advertising and promotion - in particular, the heavy concentration of cigarette advertisements in women magazines in which tobacco-related health information flow is often limited. This paper also examines how the advertisers used the rhetoric and imagery to lure women all over the world into destructive addiction. Introduction In the 19th century, smoking by women in North America and Europe had long been associated with loose morals. Women smokers were viewed as fallen women, with smoking the occupational symbol of prostitution (Greaves 1996). However, the profound impact of First World War enhanced the emancipation of women and increased the prevalence of smoking among women. During the war, many women had not only taken on "male" occupations...
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