WHY does the FACE(most seen) of our cigarette packets carry very minor healthy warning. Are these marketing reasons?? We do not want to scare our customers??
Funny enough, if you keep checking the packet, it does not even say the amount of Mg per gram,,amount of Nicotine, and amount of Carbon monoxide. It makes me sick to think of the idea that people are marketing carelessely at the expenses of poor Tanzanians healthy, especially as a former sales executive for 1 year at the leading cigarette company.
I feel guilty for not challenging my employer and being diluded into poisoning my fellow Tanzanians, whenever I think of the guerilla marketing that is taking place.
It makes me even more sick to think of the fact that, cigarettes are delivered at every single village in Tanzania ON TIME and SAFELY(If needed,guarded with a weaponed policeman), even at the so called ´not passable roads`.
Tanzania Cigarette Co., the country’s largest cigarette maker, profit rose 27 percent last year(2007) as sales increased.
The company posted net income of 31.1 billion Tanzanian shillings ($23.8 million) for the year to Dec. 31, compared with 24.4 billion shillings a year earlier,
Japan Tobacco International, a unit of Japan Tobacco Inc., the world’s third-largest tobacco manufacturer, owns 75 percent( BLOOMBERG)
Look at these adverts, and where they are located;
IT´S FRESH, IT´S GOOD,IT´S YOURS
THIS IS THE LIFE
I wonder why JTI chooses to market these products this way, particularly in Africa.. In other parts of the world especially in EUROPE and AMERICA, they would never do this stinking business. WHY? KWANINI JAMANI?
