Thursday, November 27, 2008

Public Relations For Tobacco Companies

Writen by Lance Winslow

When it comes to tobacco companies in the United States of America we all know what they have been through with class-action lawsuits and we watch as much of the tobacco industry in the United States has been destroyed by lawyers. Of course some people who were heavy smokers are very upset about tobacco companies and the nicotine that has been put in the cigarettes to keep them from going out and enabling them to stay lit.

Most people may not realize that the tobacco industry in the United States helped get the country going and without it we may not have had enough to trade with the rest the world in order to make our nation economically viable. It is unfortunate that sometimes we do not realize these things or address the real issues.

Public relations for tobacco companies is extremely important and that's why they hire the very best public-relations firms and specialist dealing in the industry. Lately the tobacco companies have done a lot of community goodwill and can actually helped get younger people to not smoke.

Some might think this is against their future profits however, the tobacco companies realize that fewer people in the United States are smoking and that there are 1.3 billion people in China who do not have a problem with smoking.

It is a much bigger market than the United States ever was. Perhaps this is a good case study when discussing public-relations issues in large older industries and how to keep them from going up in smoke. Consider this in 2006.

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