The tobacco industry continues to abuse the ethics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to change their public image‚ whilst also attempting to achieve their goals. This is evident in the ways the industry manipulates data and targets youth smokers. This could be characterised by the analysis of the transparency‚ dignity and citizenship principles of the Global Business Standards Codex (GBSC). The manipulation of data by the tobacco industry expresses the abuse of the transparency principle
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Tobacco Ethical Issues The five ethical issues that I have selected from thetruth.com are: misrepresenting cigarettes as a safe consumable good‚ using flavored tobacco to appeal to a larger demographic‚ referring to children as “replacement” smokers‚ cigarette butts kill fish and micro-organisms‚ and helping minorities get jobs to buy cigarettes. Misrepresenting cigarettes According to the information available on thetruth.com‚ big tobacco has been implying they are producing a safe consumable
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Business‚ Government‚ and Society Research Paper: Tobacco Industry Dixon 1 Table of Contents Introduction 2 History 3 Corporate Stakeholders 4 Role of the tobacco industry in its social‚ economic‚ and political setting 7 Domestic and International Ethics 9 Ecological and Natural Resources 10 Social Issues 11 Rating of Social Responsiveness 11 Rating in relation to the Saint Leo Core Values 12 Dixon 2 Introduction The use of tobacco is a very controversial topic here in the United
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suicide combined. Tobacco consumption has existed for many centuries‚ since the first Native American to the Spanish conquerors and it has very quickly become global. 100 billion cigarettes are smoked each year and this causes the death of 5 millions people a year. Tobacco companies want to give the impression that they look like all major companies: first‚ they act responsibly and‚ secondly‚ they worry about satisfying their customers and shareholders. But the tobacco industry manipulate people
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Ashley Wall International and Multi- Cultural Marketing Colorado State University Global Campus Module 6: Third World Countries and Tobacco 12/21/13 Selling Tobacco to Third World Countries Can you recommend alternative strategies or solutions to the dilemmas confronting the tobacco companies? To governments? What is the price of ethical behaviors? Most marketing decisions have ethnical ramifications whether business executives recognize
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Prevention‚ tobacco use causes about 6 million deaths per year: 480‚000 deaths result from cigarette smoking and 41‚000 deaths result from secondhand smoke exposure. Nonetheless‚ tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and diseases every year in the United States. In addition‚ companies such as The Real Cost are advertising and appealing to youth and adults all over the country in order to save lives; indeed‚ advertising companies spend millions of dollars on anti-tobacco use ads‚ but
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Background information for Tobacco Stocks Divestment 1 1.1 Responsible Investment Framework The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (Guardians) have made considerable progress during the year in the development of their responsible investment framework. The Guardians approved their revised Responsible Investment Policy‚ Standards and Procedures‚ to encompass both the Guardians ethical investment and voting requirements‚ with regards to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (Fund). The Responsible
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unethical. There are eight principles stated in the Global Business Standards Codex (GBSC) which assist in the assessment of ethics of an organisation or industry (Paine et al. 2005). These principles of the GBSC set the standard in an economic‚ social and environmental sense which all organisations in the global economy should adhere to. Therefore‚ the tobacco industry’s (TI) use of CSR strategy is unethical. This is because the TI’s use of CSR fails to adhere by the transparency‚ dignity and citizenship
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Tobacco Author And Page Information • by Anup Shah • This Page Last Updated Wednesday‚ July 02‚ 2008 • This page:http://www.globalissues.org/article/533/tobacco. • To print all information e.g. expanded side notes‚ shows alternative links‚ use the print version: o http://www.globalissues.org/print/article/533 Tobacco and smoking have a number of negative effects: • Tobacco smoking kills • Tobacco exacerbates poverty • Tobacco contributes to world hunger by
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The tobacco industry has contributed to the growth of Malaysian economy where the industry ranked 5th out of 92 sectors with the total economic output being RM11.7 billion or 3% of GDP . Moreover‚ tobacco plantation in Malaysia grew from a mere of 8 hectares in 1959 to 12‚148 hectares in 2004; whereby East Malaysia has approximately 1‚200 hectares. Therefore‚ the industry indirectly contributes significantly to the country’s economy where more than 190‚000 employment in 2003; as per study conducted
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