Once there was a headstrong young journalist who thought he could outsmart anyone as if he was flawless. Society saw him as an epic journalist, a rising young storyteller, and most of all an influential leader. Sadly, Stephen Glass’s cover up soon came to a downfall. It was almost as if this well-known writer was secretly another person, and shockingly no one knew about his split personality. Glass was known to sit for hours at his desk destroying his pen on the paper in front of him. He, without a doubt, was a pathological liar with an extremely bizarre malady.

Maybe the young writer should have been a novelist instead, because he was known to write vivid stories. Some of the narratives were about blackmailing software giants, and various articles written on Monica Lewinsky made him a prominent figure in the media. Eventually, back in 1998, he was convicted of fraudulent plagiarism including deceptive information in almost twenty seven articles that he wrote. Considering they were all works of bigotry, clearly, this distraught individual must have created a kind of chemic al imbalance in the public’s mind, just as tobacco companies are doing to their smokers today.

Just as Glass’s folly deceived the public, tobacco companies are worldwide abominable. Furthermore, Just as in the Glass scandal, where the public was deceived by fake and fraud news stories, today’s tobacco industry misleads people into buying their products. The tobacco industry misleads people in a way that can leave them incompetent and helpless. The tobacco industry misinforms consumers and leads them to believe that cigarettes are pathway to cultural assimilation. The profit-growing nicotine industry emphasizes cigarette smoking to be commonly known as sexy, glamorous, fabulous or “hot.

” Their marketing strategy is targeted and focused on a specific group of individuals. These individuals are people who suffer from stress, are under heavy peer pressure, want to be popular, or long to follow in the footsteps of those who have a positive image because of their smoking habit. These individuals are persuaded to engage in risky activities such as smoking when tobacco industries post sexy models on bulletin boards or in trendy magazines smoking cigarettes. These advertisements make inhalation look like smoking will eventually lead you to an alluring and exciting life.

On September 16th, 1998 a member of the American Cancer Society, Emily Smith, stated, “The ad buy marks an unprecedented $5 million effort by the society to challenge the erroneous information and outright lies the tobacco industry has been feeding the American public. The tobacco companies have already spent, and continue to spend an estimated $50 million + on ads that carry a strong anti-government message and claim that tobacco legislation is just an attempt by politicians to “tax and spend. ” These misconducts of wrongdoing are not only misleading to the public, but as well are severely hazardous to there health.

Moreover, tobacco selling companies represent cigarettes in a positive light, however; in reality they are spiteful and addictive. Nicotine can lead to a slow and severely painful death. Furthermore, this is why they are commonly known as death sticks or cancer sticks. Little does the public know that these falsehood companies are stealing its innocence. Cigarette smoking can cause a wide variety of harmful effects. Some of the main effects are lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. The American Cancer Society noted that tobacco related illnesses take almost five-hundred thousand lives a year; this is more than any other death in the USA.

These deaths are more common than decease from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, and murders. Sad but true, these industries feed and off money and even live for it. Tobacco companies also claim that they do not tackle kids, however extensive amounts of research has included that youth groups aged 14 to 24 will engage in cigarette smoking within the next twenty-five years. Directly quoted from an article by the American Cancer Society an RJR marketing executive says, “they represent tomorrow’s cigarette business”.

Undoubtedly, nicotine manufacturers have left it to the community to help find ways of preventing cancer and other harmful diseases caused by smoking. We can hopefully demolish these false attributes through campaigning, activism, and education. Luckily, we are living in a generation full of great activist. Non profit organizations such as American Legacy Foundation (Truth), American Cancer Society, and COST: Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco, as well as many others help to reduce these problems. They are now countering the tobacco industry with fearless commercials that offer bluntly narrow opinions of which tobacco companies really are.

These organizations exploit the problematic issues the public faces from cigarette smoking. The American Legacy Foundation, “launched the Truth campaign aired by MTV and prevented about 300, 000 youths from becoming smokers between 2000 and 2002. This study was released on a Wednesday, in the March edition of the American Journal of public health; Bmjj journals noted that on August 28th, 1979 BAT scientist declared “we are searching explicitly for a socially acceptable addictive product involving a pattern of repeated consumption, a product which is likely to involve repeated handling”.

Hopefully, these organizations will slowly but surely soon come to help smokers realize what nicotine intake really does to the body. Summing up, Stephen Glass and fraud tobacco companies are comparable for the reason that Stephen Glass tainted people into believing his false attributes, just as untruthful tobacco companies persuade the public into considering that smoking is a good thing. Both parties are guilty of charge for causing mass corruption to society, disrespect to civilization, distorted news to the public, and most of all loss of trustworthiness.

Overall, it is vital that the public is informed on the lookout of such false claims and predicaments. Optimistically speaking, hopefully, in the near future the general public will become even more involved with helping diminish the detrimental consequences of false promotion, and further critical research on smoking health conditions. Last but not least, help create more supportive guides and organizations in order to promote more awareness about nicotine.

All in all, it is left in our hands as a growing, technologically advanced society to help the forthcoming generations understand and know the true setbacks of fraud, and misconduct by advertising companies. In the end we are left to be each others mentors, and counselors. Hopefully, in the near future we will come to realize the true and harsh effects of these hoaxes. Till than we need to realize that humankind has the strongest effect on each other. With power and understanding we can out beat any scandals or deception.