As employees of the leading cigarette producer in North America, it is imperative that the truth about our product is clarified. The harmful effects of tobacco have been greatly exaggerated and the use of our product has little or no known harmful side effects. Though many other tobacco products do have negative health or cosmetic consequences, the use of our product by many doctors and celebrities would prove otherwise. The fact that our product has been the top selling tobacco product in America consistently for the last two decades speaks volumes about the safety and quality of our tobacco as well. The proven negative health effects of tobacco in general do not apply to our product because it is of a higher quality, so please enjoy! The
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If the realization that this statement has used misconceptions with the intention of swaying public opinion becomes well known, the actual effect could be the total loss of trust and loyalty in the consumers of the product. A study of graduate school students with knowledge or experience of unethical faculty behavior reported a significantly lower overall program climate, as well as being less confident in the ability of their department to effectively identify or address issues related to faculty competence (January, Meyerson, Reddy, Docherty & Klonoff, n.d.) Students that could identify at least one ethical violation believed that, “these violations contributed to a greater loss of faith in graduate program faculty and created more negative emotions than did students who could not identify unethical faculty behavior” (January, et al., n.d., p.264) This dissatisfaction with the ethical transgressions of the company could spread quickly and easily with the ease of communication provided by social media, as well as cause severe and permanent financial consequences for the company itself. As most forms of gossip are used as a means of self-policing and social control, developing a reputation as a false gossiper would likely be quite damaging in our
If the realization that this statement has used misconceptions with the intention of swaying public opinion becomes well known, the actual effect could be the total loss of trust and loyalty in the consumers of the product. A study of graduate school students with knowledge or experience of unethical faculty behavior reported a significantly lower overall program climate, as well as being less confident in the ability of their department to effectively identify or address issues related to faculty competence (January, Meyerson, Reddy, Docherty & Klonoff, n.d.) Students that could identify at least one ethical violation believed that, “these violations contributed to a greater loss of faith in graduate program faculty and created more negative emotions than did students who could not identify unethical faculty behavior” (January, et al., n.d., p.264) This dissatisfaction with the ethical transgressions of the company could spread quickly and easily with the ease of communication provided by social media, as well as cause severe and permanent financial consequences for the company itself. As most forms of gossip are used as a means of self-policing and social control, developing a reputation as a false gossiper would likely be quite damaging in our