Project SCUM

SCUM: Sub-Culture Urban Marketing

Project SCUM is a marketing scheme proposed by R.J. Reynolds to sell cigarettes to members of the "alternative life style."

read a san fransisco newspaper article about the industries project here:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2001-05-02/news/smoking-gun/

no one is safe from Big Tobacco's targeting schemes. they are out to get anyone and everyone they can. and as we can see, they think very highly of you....

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join Utahs new grassroots movement, Project:1200 and let your voice be heard!
http://www.projecttwelvehundred.blogspot.com/
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other links:
http://www.lgbttobacco.org/
http://www.gaysmokeout.net/resource7.html

FACTS

• LGBT people have higher rates of stress and depression and above average tobacco use and substance abuse.

• The LGBTQ communities smoke at rates 40%-almost 200% higher than the general population.

• The American Cancer Society estimates that over 30,000 LGBT people die each year of tobacco related diseases.

• In a recent national study on adolescent health, 45% of females and 35% of males who reported same-sex attraction or behavior smoked; compared to only 29% for the rest of the youth.

• Emphasis on bars and restaurants as social opportunities for LGBT people
  create added exposure to secondhand smoke.

facts gathered from lgbttobacco.org