The lives and daily routines of many Americans are affected by corporate activities. Corporations provide the basic necessities like food and water as well as luxuries and pleasures of everyday living. These corporations generate wealth for the economy and their shareholders, and provide employment for much of the population. One of these powerful corporations is Philip Morris who manufactures and distributes tobacco products such as Marlboro (Morris, 1). This tobacco manufacturer not only generates wealth but also generates health hazardous risks for the consumer. Despite increasing warnings about the health hazards of smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places, Americans disregard these warnings and still continue to smoke (Smoking, 4). Later then finding themselves dealing with the consequences of their poorly made decisions. Therefore, a corporation should not be held responsible for providing a product. It is the users who should be held accountable for their choices.

The American people have the right to choose whether to smoke or not to smoke. There is a lot of information of cancer risks from us

Corporate responsibility is not an issue of being responsible of the consumers' poorly made decisions. A corporation's mere responsibility is to generate income for the economy and to provide the necessary information on their product. Therefore, it is the consumer's choice and responsibility to decide whether a product is suited for them or not, and if they are willing to deal with the responsibility that comes with it.

ing tobacco available to Americans, particularly in the media. The American Cancer Society estimates that "cigarettes are responsible for more than 400,000 deaths in the United States each year" (Smoking, 2). American consumers have been informed that tobacco contains nicotine, an addictive drug. They also know that by smoking tobacco, it causes lung cancer, emphysema, and other respiratory diseases. It also contributes to heart disease and low birth weight of

Although consumers make their own choices in smoking cigarettes, do non-smokers have the choice of inhaling second-hand smoke? It is unfair for non-smokers to breath the air that is contaminated by second-hand smoke. Each year about 3,000 non-smoking adults die of lung cancer as a result

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