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Can Smoking make you Slim?

As it is known the main problem of a woman is her weight. That’s why Tobacco Companies for to attract more people in smoking they made new cigarettes which can help women to lose weight.

Tobacco Companies are increasingly targeting teenage girls, using cynical marketing ploys that tap into young women's fears about their weight, and introducing "female-friendly" packaging.

Silk Cut, a brand of low tar cigarette produced by the Gallaher Group, will next month launch a range of "Super slims", which will be sold in "perfume-shaped" boxes designed to attract to image-conscious women.

Deborah Arnott, director of the Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said: "Silk Cut is using the terminology 'super slim' to make the link between smoking their product and losing weight. Like a dog whistle that is inaudible to humans, this message is only heard by those it's aimed at: in these case girls anxious about their weight and desperate to stay slim. It's despicable for the industry to target vulnerable young women in this way."

According to a recent study, every year in UK die 46,000 people because of smoking.

Research published in the US journal Tobacco Control last month revealed that stars of Hollywood's golden age also promoted smoking, with Clark Gable and Bette Davis paid the equivalent of £35,000 a year by tobacco companies.

The actress Scarlett Johansson was accused of promoting smoking with her role in the 2006 film The Black Dahlia, in which she was seen sporting an old-fashioned black cigarette holder.

Many tobacco companies have tried to invent a link between smoking and slimness. The first ad which emphasized the "benefits" of smoking for weight control was brought out in the late 1920s, with the slogan "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet".

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