...E-Cigarettes are battery-powered devices that vaporize nicotine. They've been sold in the U.S. since 2007 and now have millions of users worldwide and nearly $2 billion in annual sales. They contain less toxic substances than traditional cigarettes do, but little is known about their health effects. Whether they help or hurt anti-smoking efforts is hotly debated. Some say they encourage smoking by letting people maintain their habit in places where cigarettes are banned. Keep this question in mind. Is smokeless tobacco better? Are E-Cigarette (E-Cigarettes) a safe alternative to a traditional cigarette? The California Department of Public Health declared E-Cigarette a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products as “vaping” (Using the E-Cigarette) grows in popularity. They also noted that E-Cigarettes emit a cancer-causing toxin Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is found in many everyday things, such as: certain building materials, disinfectants and embalming fluid. Lab tests have shown that using certain E-Cigarettes at high temperature could emit more Formaldehyde. On some E-Cigarettes, there is a dial to change the amount of heat and liquid and test have...
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...E-cigarette is getting popular recently; studies and statistics have found that People are buying more and more E-cigarettes. Many of the E-cigarette selling companies advertise that this type of cigarette is less harmful toward the human body, and they can help people with real cigarette addictions. There are three big E-cigarette selling companies in the US, Altria Group, Reynold American, and Lorillard. As E-cigarette providers, are they been ethical toward this market? From many studies, it concludes that they are not been ethical when advertising and selling the product. The two ethical problems they have are: honesty, and conflict of interest. Companies are not truthful toward the statistic of health issues, and are conflicting their...
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...indications for nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs), and input on a report to Congress examining the regulation and development of innovative products and treatments for tobacco dependence. In more basic terms it is trying to get tobacco dependent treatments or mechanisms, such as electronic cigarettes, a chance to be officially approved by the FDA. 3. Six months after most people purchased e-cigarettes, 31% of these smokers said they'd quit cigarettes and two-thirds of them said they'd cut back on the number of cigarettes they smoked. A third of those who'd quit smoking also quit using e-cigarettes. But E-cigarettes have not been tested for efficacy and safety. Additionally, they are produced overseas with little oversight to ensure good manufacturing practices. To regulate this product identified chemicals and quantities that is used in this product, release pros and cons for this product, and put a warning label on the product about the risk of addiction to nicotine. I wish to accomplish in my comment was to help the FDA is that there is pros in the use of E-cigarettes. Also, that the use of E-cigarettes is a lower and healthier risk then the use of regular tobacco cigarettes. 4. The deadline...
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...a. I think women are better listeners than men. PRO | CON | Women show to a greater extent in emotions | Could be just pretending to listen | Women naturally use reflective language | They talk way too much about one thing | Women care and are really interested in conversations | Can be annoying with certain topics | They give advice from their own experiences | They can push a subject down your throat | They give a women’s perspective on certain things | May be crying or loud speaking | b. capital punishment is no deterrent to crime. PRO | CON | Morality | Cost of death vs life in prison | Constitutionality | Race | Deterrence | Income level | Retribution | Attorney Quality | Irrevocable Mistakes | Physicians at execution | c. “Hard” sciences such as math are more difficult than “soft” sciences such as sociology. PRO | CON | More prepared for life situations | Economics | Larger expand of knowledge | Political Science | Being accurate | Chemistry | Computing sciences | Less job opportunities because of less knowledge | Physics | Biology | d. The production and sale of cigarettes must be outlawed for the health of the American public. PRO | CON | Change magnitude smokers because it is outlawed | Finding alternate bad habits | Chemicals found in cigarettes | States loses money on cigarette sales | Stop underage smokers | Have yellow tone on your skin, fingernails and teeth. | Decreased number of smokers | Your lunges bequeath...
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...E-cigarettes 1) The electronic cigarette (E-cigarette) concept first appeared in 1963 when A Gilbert acquired a patent. Because at that time tobacco was not yet generally accepted as harmful this device never reached manufacturing until 2004 when a Chinese pharmacist, Hon Lik introduced to the market. E-cigarette is a portable electronic device that simulates the act of tobacco smoking. It looks like, feels like and tastes like a real cigarette and perform just a traditional cigarette but with some differences, works without fire, tobacco, carbon monoxide ash and smell found in the real cigarette. Electronic Cigarettes are driven by a micro-electronic technology. The actual cigarette body is made up of 3 parts: a nicotine cartridge, an atomization chamber and a smart chip with a lithium battery. E-cigarettes are an alternative to the tobacco smoking that attempts to deliver similar experience of smoking a real cigarette but without the adverse health effects. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the beginning wanted to regulate the E-cigarettes like, drugs or medical devices, but a court ruled that this is not possible. Right now the FDA is trying to regulate electronic cigarettes like a tobacco product. The FDA will propose subjecting e-cigarette companies to rules that already cover the makers of regular cigarettes, such as providing the government with lists of product ingredients. 2) Pros of selling E-cigarettes: * Cleaner environmentthe environment will...
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...The Electronic Cigarette, a healthy alternative Tacita Elliott English composition II National American University Abstract The Electronic Cigarette has become a popular in the recent years as a healthy alternative to the tobacco smoker. The newer vapor style electronic cigarettes allow the normal tobacco smoker to have a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes when trying to acquire their nicotine. Being the newer product out on the market in the refined versions of vapor liquid you can find today, there are many health questions that linger in people’s mind, some of which include but are not limited to, what do the doctors say? Is this FDA approved? How does this compare to the tobacco that is in an everyday cigarette? Is this lifestyle choice a change that I want to do? In this paper you can read several answers to these questions and having that knowledge you can go forward to understand more about how the electronic cigarette can affect you in positive and negative ways. There is a new discovery that is sweeping the nation in the recent years; the healthy substitute for cigarettes, the electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette or the “e-cigarette” is becoming more and more known throughout the smoker community as a healthier substitute for one who is addicted to nicotine. The electronic cigarette takes out the harmful tar and other harmful aspects of tobacco and delivers the nicotine though a vapor to the smoker. Though smoking in general is bad for your...
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...Smoking cigarettes is such a taboo thing now a days. During the 1950’s smoking was completely normalized and was even broadcasted. This may be because there was not the research necessary to tell smokers why it is unhealthy. For the first commercial, commercial 1, it is a simple 60 second, black and white advertisement promoting “Camel” cigarettes. In this commercial, the company is exhibiting doctors smoking their cigarettes to appeal to their audience. Their audience includes doctors, smokers, and/or those considering smokers. The role of a doctor is a highly respected profession, so if a doctor can smoke it makes it seem like anyone and everyone should. One societal change I noticed throughout the commercial was that all actors were white, and the female actresses involved in the commercial were not the doctors, instead they were the assistants....
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...places in the United States are making calls just like these. Why? Their kids are being poisoned by e-cigarettes due to an increase in the use of products. There has already been “at least 1 child death reported from unintentional exposure to a nicotine-containing ENDS solution” (Walley 1018). These poisonings will continue because the products don’t have to be childproof and come in fruit, candy and other flavors specifically targeting young children (CDC). Calls regarding poisonings from e-cigarette liquids have risen from 1 per month to 215 a month in just four years while the...
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...nicotine hit through e-cigarettes. Yet as "vaping" replaces smoking – and is excitedly market by the tobacco titans – nobody is yet certain how safe it actually is. What does the research say? Vaping introduced to the people as an item with the potential to shield smokers from the hazardous effects of tobbaco, e-cigarettes are promoted as an approach to get your nicotine fix without breathing in all that lung-blackening smoke that is been straightforwardly connected to cancer and heart disease. Vaping, advertised as safer than ordinary cigarettes, deliver...
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...penetration * Existing, New = Market Development * New, Existing = Product development * New, New = Diversification Marketing Mix: The 4 P’s * Product * Price * Promotion * Place Define Positioning: The way by which the marketers attempt to create a distinct impression in the customer's mind Chapter 3: Environmental scanning: Looking into what factors can hurt your business - Macro: indirect effect a. Demography: Study of human population change b. Geography c. Education: d. Diversity e. Economy - Micro: Direct effect a. Work Force b. Suppliers c. Marketing d. Selling e. Publics: Media, financial, government, citizen Legislature: Anti-Monopoly -Sherman Anti-Trust Act - Clayton Act -Robinson Patman -FDA - Cigarette labeling Chapter 4: Why do you need a specific and clear problem? With unspecific answers you get unspecific results. Define Secondary info: Info you did not do yourself. -Pros: Easy...
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...According to the table 3.1, there is a minimal increase in the excise duty of unfiltered cigarettes in the years 2006-07 and 2007-08 and large increase can be seen in the year 2008-09. In the case of filtered cigarette, there has been a minimal increase or rather we can say that excise duty has been constant for 2007-08 and 2008-09. In the case of bidis, the excise duty is constant for 2006-07 and 2007-08 while decreases in 2008-09. So we can make out from this given table that by increasing the cost of unfiltered cigarette the government wants people to shift from unfiltered to filtered cigarette which will eventually lead to betterment of public health. Secondly, it also helps the Government in the generation of revenue. According to table 3.5, there has been an increase in consumption of bidis and less in cigarettes from 2000-01 to 2005-06. While due to the increase in price of bidis in the year 2006-07, the cigarette consumption of brands likeGold flake, Navy cut, Gold flake small and Wills flake has increased. As the price is increased there would be less consumption of cigarette while on the other side the revenue generated would still be the same or slightly less because of increase in price therefore net sales will be the same without any significant loss. So in order to maintain the revenue generated the quantity of cigarette manufactured will be reduced i,e less number of cigarette will be sold at a higher price Q2: Based on the price elasticity estimates in table...
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...create a product or service and develop it into a business. As with anything, a business partnership has it’s pros and cons but there are also two types of partnerships, General and Limited. A General Partnership is subject to partnership agreement; all partners have equal rights in the management of the partnership. The Pros of General is that the partnership may designate particular partners with particular skills to make decisions in that area and reserve the more important decisions to the partnership as a whole. Cons to consider is that each partner has rights in management and may contractually bind the partnership. Each partner is responsible for the contracts that the other partners execute and the liabilities that they incur. The possibility of disagreement and deadlock exists. The other partnership is Limited. In a Limited Partnership at least one general partner is responsible for the management of the partnership. A limited partner may not participate in the management of the business or the limited partner runs the risk of becoming personally liable for the debts and obligations of the limited partnership. Pros to this partnership include that a general partner may vote on matters related to the business of the partnership provided such matters are subject to the approval of the limited partners. This also must be spelled out in the agreement. Cons are that an individual may be reluctant to invest in this partnership because of the limits on participation...
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...The E-Cig WHY CIGARETTES ARE BAD… It is only common sense that smoking is bad for us. Not only is cigarette smoking one of the most avoidable causes of poor health and death in our world today. But “smoking puts your friends and family at risk. Approximately 50,000 adult non-smokers die each year from second hand smoke alone, 3,000 of which die from lung cancer.” (NIDA/tobaccofreekids.org) Did you know that smoking is the leading cause of death in the United States “approximately 443,000 deaths or 1 of every 5 deaths, in the United States each year.”(CDC) The people who die from smoking cigarettes alone is more than deaths related to alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. “An estimated 46 million people, 20.6% of all adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes” (CDC) It is estimated that “over 6 million children in the U.S. under the age of 18 will ultimately die from smoking. There are also 8.6 million people in the U.S. who suffer from a smoking related illness.” (tobaccofreekids.org) The vast numbers of deaths and illnesses are caused by one thing, cigarettes, but it’s not the cigarette itself that is the problem it is the chemicals that are used to produce and manufacture the cigarette that are the initial problem. Did you know that the average smoke in a cigarette contains over 4,000 different chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Just a few of the most unbelievable ingredients a cigarette contains are but not limited to “Ammonia;...
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...becoming a retail distributor of the new e cigarettes makes logical sense for Indianapolis Indiana. E Cigarettes were first marketed in China in 2004 and rapidly growing at an astounding pace. Sales are expected to hit $1 billion in 2013 (Stuttaford, 2013). Despite the newness of the product and much of if any side affect have been noted through some studies. In the ECLAT 12-month study, which is double-blind, controlled, randomized clinical study to evaluate smoking reduction, smoking abstinence and adverse events in smokers (Caponettto etal, 2013). The study demonstrated e-cigarettes hold some validity in ‘reducing number of cigarette smoked, and can lead to enduring tobacco abstinence…” E Cigarettes are operated by batteries that heats up the liquid solution of which some contains zero nicotine, propylene glycol, and other chemicals. When consumers puff on the element this triggers the vapor to be heated giving off a mist (vapor) which consumers inhale and exhale like traditional cigarettes. E Cigarettes are made to look and feel like their real counterpart and ‘simulate the visual, sensory, and behavioral aspects of smoking traditional cigarettes (Caponnetto etal, 2013). Without the combustion or burning of the tobacco leaves, e cigarettes have been proven through some studies to have positive effects on consumers as well as aiding in smoking cessation (Scott, 2013). Here is a diagram that shows the anatomy of e cigarettes from www.ecigaretteslist.com. ...
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...Change the drinking age to 18. When you are eighteen years old you have multiple responsibilities. Everyone who is eighteen is seen as a responsible, mature young adult. If eighteen year olds are portrayed as responsible and mature adults then why can’t they buy or consume alcohol? The legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen because people are able to fight for their country, can be prosecuted as an adult, can buy cigarettes, and many more. One of the biggest issues on not being able to drink when you are eighteen is that they are able to fight for their country for freedom. They are able to hold, and shoot a gun, and possibly kill someone. Yet, they still can’t have a beer? Reynolds states “If you are old enough to enlist, and old enough to vote, you are old enough to swill cheap beer in the company of your peers."(n.p.) Military men and women have every right to drink and purchase alcohol if they so choose. Some people disagree with lowering the drinking age. They think it will cause more fatalities. People believe that someone who is eighteen is more likely to drink, and drive. I have no clue how people came up with this, but a twenty-one year old is just as likely to drink, and drive. Therefore, our roads won’t be any more dangerous than they are now, but Ogilvie states “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that raising the drinking age to 21 saves about 800 lives a year.”(n.p.) The thing is underage drinking is happening every day,...
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