Smoking profits depend on recruiting teen starters because adults rarely begin

Evidence

To remain profitable, the industry must recruit new people to take up smoking. If youngsters do not start smoking in their teens, they are unlikely to start later in life (Lynch & Bonnie, 1994). Evidence that the industry was tracking teenage smoking was dismissed as “anomalies” (Dedman, 1998). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1623

Categorization

• DEFINE: The term ‘anomalies’ here is an instance of the euphemistic labeling moral disengagement mechanism introduced elsewhere in the book.