Case 4-6 Selling tobacco to third world countries

Use the model in Exhibit 1 as a guide and assess the ethical and social responsibility implications of the situations described.

2. Can you recommend alternative strategies or solutions to the dilemmas confronting the tobacco companies? To governments? What is the price of ethical behavior?

3. Should the U.S. government support U.S. tobacco company interests abroad?

4. Should a company be forced to stop marketing a product that is not illegal, such as cigarettes?