Advertisement

Posts Tagged ‘alcohol

Big Tobacco out to target young Latinos

1:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Health| Marketing · 1 Comment

18 Nov 2005

smokey.gifNo, I’m not a pious ex-smoker. I still take a puff on occasion, especially when I’m outside of the U.S., where smoking isn’t villified as much. But like beer companies sponsoring scholarship programs for Latino youth (and I love beer, by the way), I’m not cool with tobacco companies targeting kids. Activists aren’t either:

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is urging state attorneys general to investigate R.J. Reynolds Tobacco’s new “Kool be true” campaign and other industry promotional practices they say are covertly aimed at Hispanic youths.

Read more…


Hola!

VivirLatino is a daily publication published by 2 Mujeres Media, dedicated to featuring all the latest politics, culture, entertainment of interest to the diverse and influential Latino and Latina community in the U.S.

About | Advertise with us | Contact | Twitter

  • AmeRICAN: Calle 13 is a bad luck charm brought on Puerto Rico ex-Boxing Champion Miguel Cotto a BEATING by Pac [...]
  • Maegan La Mala: I don't think so [...]
  • Maegan La Mala: I was thinking about this...how the two are connected [...]
  • Maegan La Mala: Well I certainly don't condone an eye for an eye politics and don't think that that kind of "justice [...]
  • Raymond Lee: This is an outrage, again a young gay man attacked and killed and the fact that they where gay or bi [...]