7.29.2018

Bronwyn King : You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies


Bronwyn King at TEDxSydney
You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies (transcript)
Summary
The speaker knew that people have been accidentally investing in cigarette companies that kill many people who have cancer by smoking. She suggests a way that people can't invest them. It's used three questions that people can know whether their money goes to those companies or not.
She strongly tells us that cigarette companies make products that kill seven million people every year but they use children to make products.
And then, although there is a risk that there are families that work at cigarette companies, the tobacco industry ranks the world's least reputable industry, thus people won't need paying the costs of them.

However, in Japan, people won't listen to such a story about tobacco, even if the speaker tells us important things. The reasons are that the speaker is a woman, companies and governments have a strong tie, Japanese children don't work and can't work, and cigarettes are expensive because more than half of cigarettes' price is tax. People think that a person who smokes is a good person who pays tax, so I wasn't surprised by the title but I thought that her three questions don't have an effect.

This is a problem that all cycle has to be changed.
Cigarette companies can get gains without making tobacco.
Children can go to school without working.
People who love smoking can find something they love without smoking.
The most important thing is that there are superannuation fund systems that use much money and our tax.
Or is it good that only the death rate is decreasing?  How many numbers is it allowed?

Words in this story
complicit /adj/ involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing. colluding is to come to a secret understanding for a harmful purpose, conspire, plot, scheme, plan
oncologist /noun/ a person studies of tumors

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