Every 13 seconds someone in the world dies of a smoking related illness. That's a big responsibility that your company must live with each day. Every year, 15,000 infants and children die from complications from second hand smoke. Children have no choices because they are forced to be around adults that are in cars, enclosed rooms, in restaurants, etc... Second hand smoke is not filtered smoke and is worse than the smoker who is smoking a cigarette. It DOES affect the people around you. People addicted to smoking are literally killing themselves with each cigarette they smoke. It DOES affect the people around them. With the percentages being so high for smoking related deaths, I bet you know someone who has died from smoking.
When my Grandpa and Grandma were teenagers, smoking was advertised as the cool thing to do. They got hooked from the nicotine in the cigarette and smoked for years. Cigarette companies like yours even created catalogs you could buy things from with a coupon that came in the carton and on the box. Cool people like James Dean would be shown smoking. Now you advertise in teen magazines and make cigarettes look like XBOX symbols and things that would be attractive to kids. You get people when they are young to keep your business alive. Now my Grandpa has COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.) I promise you it doesn't look cool when my Grandpa is doing his breathing treatment because he can't breathe.
False and misleading advertising is immoral. People are dying because you've led them to believe that smoking isn't going to hurt them. All the research shows that your company is killing people. Please, if you aren't going to stop and caution people about the dangers of your product, at least tell the truth. Own up to the fact that cigarettes kill thousands of people a year and you are making a profit from their sales. At the very least, tell the truth on the packaging of your product.
