Historical+Event+(Smoking)

This historical event of the smoking controversey that occured in about the 1950's relates to the event in the book where Huck runs away from his problems and avoids confrontation. Cigarette companies would avoid confrontation and run from problems when confronted on whether or not smoking was bad for human health. They did not want to deal with thier problems, and all they did was just run away from them. Now what problems did this solve?

In about the 1950’s there was the huge controversy about smoking. Many cigarette producing companies knew that cigarettes were bad for your health, but instead of approaching the problem and solving it, they decided that it would be easier and save them more money if they just denied it and ran from their problems. In this case, the running happened to be denying the fact of the harmful affects that smoking has on the human body. The significance of this event is how a company’s urge to make money outweighs their consciousness of protecting people’s health. These companies also would try to avoid confrontation on the subject, because at the time it was not yet known that smoking was bad for your health. Now, whether or not these companies knew the truth, does not change the fact that they avoided confrontation on the subject, because they wanted to continue to make money. In this event in history, money was the factor that caused many decisions affecting American’s health in history.

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