In 2006, a federal judge issued a damning 1,600-page opinion, detailing how these corporations marketed and sold their lethal products with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted. Worse still, Big Tobacco intentionally targets children, whom they refer to as replacement smokers. Industry documents reveal shocking admissions: The base of our business is the high school student, one memo stated
In one case, the paper reports, the agents running Squid's Smoke Shop in Portland, Ore., convinced Aaron Key, 19 and described as "mentally disabled," to get a tattoo of a squid on his neck to promote the store
"People don't come to the Maldives because they're able to smoke," Afaal said
Even the Girls Want Her: Joan's roommate Carol makes a pretty overt proposal