Larsen Nichols-Tobacco companies forced to admit smoking kills

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/11/27/16705004/tobacco-ads-smoking-kills

People battled for 11 years, and now finally the federal court will begin to enforce that tobacco companies advertise the fact that smoking kills. The new ads will be required to be played on national television at least five times a week on major channels during prime time, and also printed in over 50 newspapers across the country. Tobacco companies have lied and manipulated people through their ads for years, and have even made cigarettes more addictive to get people to buy more of them.

This article was updated today at noon by German Lopez at Vox. The author is obviously against smoking, and very glad that this law has been passed. Before I read this article, I knew that tobacco companies didn't have to advertise that smoking kills, but I hadn't thought about all the awful ways they've lied to and manipulated people for their own financial gain and at the cost of so many lives. 1,200 lives a day, to be exact. This article is written primarily for people that are also against smoking, and it has a positive impact on them. It was written to inform people of the nefarious schemes these companies were pulling off, and that they've now been stopped. I'm incredibly thankful that the federal courts are now enforcing this. Hopefully this will set an example for stricter laws around smoking and how it's advertising, consequently leading to lower smoking rates.

This event can be compared to Harriet Beecher Stowe's publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Too many people were unaware of the evils of slavery, so she wrote the book to enlighten people of what was really going on and the lives that were at risk.