Do you have what it takes to be a tobacco executive?

nope, I couldn’t do it, it would be horrible being a CEO of a company, knowing that the money I had was from people dying, almost like blood money.

I could do it, everyone knows the risks nowadays. Personal choice.

Or a CEO of Budweiser, McDonalds, Smith and Wesson, GM, , etc.
There are so many risks.
I think we all have to take our own responsabilities (and that of our children).

Edit: But, no, i would not have what it takes.
Not so stress-resistent, me.

And the Opinion Masquerading as a Question Award goes to…...

Yeah, tobacco executives arent employing thousands of people, they just get off intentionally killing.

Using too many ‘O’s when spelling ‘lose’ is a common indicator of a nicotine deficiency

Lose not loose. Secondly, it’s not like people these days don’t know the risks involved with smoking cigs. Like rebel said, all products contain risks, so should the CEOs of GM and ford hate themselves knowing that millions of people die driving their automobiles? Give me a break where did we lose the idea of personal responsibility?

Personal responsibility isnt pithy, hip and edgy like those TRUTH commercials…

Personal responsibility? What about the person responsibility of not to causing harm to others? Personal responsibility runs both ways.

(PIthy? That means “concise and forcefully expressive.”)

@tinyfaery: Agreed. I think it was absolutely the wrong thing to do to not tell cigarette smokers that smoking their product would cause cancer. However, nowadays everyone knows this fact and it’s plastered across every carton they sell. There is an assumed amount of risk with any product that is sold, automobiles get in accidents, pesticides on fruit could cause cancer, cell phones might cause cancer, eating too much sugar can cause diabetes, eating too much Mcdonald’s can clog your arteries and make you fat, motorcycles will cause you to die if you’re in an accident, alcohol can slowly kill your liver, etc, etc, etc. Personal responsibility goes both ways but when people willingly take on that particular product knowing the potential hazardous (ie tobacco companies telling you that their product causes cancer), it is no longer the said companies responsibility.

I’d have no problem with it really. I smoke like a chimney too anyway.

on a related note, found an unopened pack of Lucky Strikes in my old backpack, used to be my favorite smokes, don’t know if I should open it and try it out though, lord knows how long they’ve been in there.

Id like a pack of Culture of Victimhood, nonfilter please?

Profiting from the suffering and deaths of your customers is not considered “right livelihood” and is not conducive to happiness.

So no I’m not going to work in that field.

My local news told me that my toothbrush causes cancer…and I would feel comfortable being a Colgate executive.

I wouldn’t personally do it because i quit smoking two months ago, and overexposure would lead to failure.

I couldn’t have that job with a free conscience, so no.

I’m gonna have to second the opinion of many of the other comments here. There are risks associated with almost any consumable product you can think of. Yes, these people are getting rich off of something that causes life threatening disease to thousands of people. However, they would not have a dime if people didn’t buy cigarettes!
I personally could not be one of these execs but I also wouldn’t want to sit on the board for Hardees or Carls Jr. (depending on your state I guess). I mean their whole marketing plan these days looks like the question..how many different greasy meats and cheeses can we fit on one bun? Let’s think about how many Americans die from heat attacks each year. But I guess it’s like Noel_S_Leitmotiv mentioned, there aren’t any trendy commercials talking about it that way so it doesn’t get that kind of attention.

So yea it sucks that people are getting rich off of what causes others so much illness. My mother died from cancer a while back so I understand the sensitivity of this. But as it has already been said, we all do have to take some responsibility for our own actions and our own health to a certain extent.

I could never have a position like that. Other than the fact that I feel most CEOs are greedy, and get paid in a year more than what some people will make in a lifetime..I could never live with myself if I did that. This isn’t even factoring in the corruption of those companies.

NO WAY

Golly, could I smoke at my desk at work again? Heck, I would be so productive you wouldn’t know what hit you . . . until I died . . .

@The_Compassionate_Heretic—Well said.

Get rich exploiting the Darwin effect? Oh yes.

CEOs struggle more when it comes to maintaining a healthy work-life balance. I’m neither interested in earning more money nor in working for a company selling dangerous products.

No, I don’t have what it takes to be a tobacco executive. I have a conscience, morals, ethics, and a soul and these are things that tobacco executives don’t have, or so I’ve heard anyway.