COMPARATION BETWEEN THE SMOK NEWS IN NIGERIA AND COLOMBIA

THIS IS OUR ESSAY ABOUT COMPARATION BETWEEN NIGERIA NEWS AND COLOMBIAN NEWS.

In Colombia one has seen that the companies that it makes cigarettes have chosen to increase his sales across several media of massive communication giving messages to the community of the benefits of the consumption of cigarette. All that they have realized it without a respective control of hearing minor since these advertising notices have not been restricted in the specific hours and many of these messages come to the teenagers who on having received this message choose to prove the cigarette. On the contrary in Nigeria have seen as the government this taking control opposite to the big companies of tobacco in opposition to the advertising messages that him come to the teenagers by means of the restriction of schedules of publication of these propagandas up to after 10 p.m.
Since the teenagers even do not have the sufficient criterion to see the physical and psychological hurts that can generate organic addiction up to leading to the death.

In conclusion we can observe that in Colombia for example the advertising means support and influence more the teenagers to interfering in the world of the addictive substances that take them only to diseases to comparison of Nigeria that day after day trying this one to eradicate the tobacco and the campaigns that foment the consumption of the cigarette.

Nigeria sues over child smokers

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Nigeria's government says it has begun legal action against three leading international cigarette companies.
It is demanding more than $40bn in compensation over their alleged role in promoting underage smoking.
The companies concerned are British American Tobacco (BAT), Philip Morris and International Tobacco Ltd.
A BAT spokesperson in London said children are not and never will be their audience and it believes the action is flawed and lacks merit.

BAT's Catherine Armstrong said it would vigorously defend the claim.
The government is also seeking an injunction compelling the companies to stop the marketing, distribution and sale of cigarettes to minors.
It says that products sold by the companies are addictive and hazardous to public health.
Cigarette smoking is widespread in Nigeria and BAT recently set up a factory in the West African country.
Correspondents say that over the past 20 years, tobacco companies have aggressively marketed their products in Africa and other developing regions to compensate for the loss of sales in developed countries that have imposed smoking restrictions.
Restrictions
The BBC's Fidelis Mbah in Lagos says the Nigerian government has in the past few years stepped up its campaign against smoking with the health warning "smokers are liable to die young" on cigarette packets and after radio and TV adverts.
Cigarette adverts have also been restricted, only allowed on radio and TV after 10pm, and billboards have been scrapped.
But our correspondent says tobacco sellers are still on the streets displaying their products for all to see.
Most children smoke in hiding after buying their cigarettes as there is no enforcement of a ban on the sale of tobacco products to underage children, he says.
One Lagos seller said he did sometimes sell cigarettes to children.
"But only to those who say they are sent by their uncles or fathers to buy," he told the BBC.
The World Health Organization estimates that 18% of young Nigerians smoke.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7083202.stm

COMPANY NEWS; PHILIP MORRIS BUYS COLOMBIAN TOBACCO COMPANY

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Philip Morris International, a unit of the Altria Group, bought Compañía Colombiana de Tabaco, Colombia's biggest tobacco company, for about $300 million to increase sales of such brands as Marlboro in Colombia. Shareholders sold 61.4 million shares of Coltabaco, or 97 percent, for $4.88 a share, or 4.3 percent more than the price on March 18, the last trading day. Coltabaco, based in Medellin, said in August it had agreed to the sale. The result was announced by the Colombia stock exchange. ''Our priority is the local market,'' said Luc Gerard, general manager of Philip Morris Colombia. ''Close to 50 percent of the market is still in the hands of our competitors and I want to maximize our participation.'' With the purchase, Philip Morris has 51 percent of the Colombian market, Mr. Gerard said.

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