...this dangerous habit. The Canadian population is addict to this unhealthy habit of tobacco smoking (Albert Health Services, 2012). Discussion Tobacco smoking is really injurious to health. The smoke of tobacco contains several dangerous chemical. These chemicals are injurious to both smokers and nonsmokers. There are more than 7,000 chemicals in the tobacco smoke. Al large amount of them, around 250 chemicals, are very harmful. These harmful chemicals include carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and ammonia. The habit of tobacco smoking is very dangerous for health. It affects almost every organ and part of the body. The ultimate impact of smoking is the diminishing of overall health (Propel, 2012). Health Consequences of Smoking There are millions of Canadian who smoking has caused lots of problems. It is also the primary cause of cancer. This cancer even leads to death. It cause causes to several parts of the body including lungs, larynx, throat, mouth, kidney, pancreas, bladder, and stomach. It also causes heart deceases and heart stroke. The habitual smokers are at higher risk that they develop airway infections and pneumonia (Schane et al, 2010). If a smoker is pregnant then there are heavy chances that she might give too early birth, and the birth weight may also be very low. A female...
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...The Tobacco Industry Smokers claim that smoking helps them relax and release stress, smoking has nothing positive, but harms human health. Smoking cigarette is linked to numerous negative effects that not only affects the health of smokers, but detriments the heath of people around them. Now let’s come to the point where, the Anti-smoking groups continue to push toward their ultimate goal to strip tobacco companies of their strong grip on consumers through politicians under their subjective influence, which leads to the restrictions of advertisements. If anti-smoking groups influence a more negative generalization of tobacco, that could lead to denying tobacco consumers and companies their basic rights as citizens. This topic is discussed in an article written by experienced Heartland Institute writer Joseph L. Bast titled: "Leave Those Poor Smokers Alone!" which discusses the topic of anti-smoking parties. Bast discusses in his article: "People are free to do things both great and foolish so long as they do not conflict with an equal right held by others. That focus on individual liberty is the reason we are the most prosperous and tolerant people in human history....
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... many people think that smoking is a sign of coolness, but in fact it just damages the health. For a long time, researchers have been researching on cigarettes to find out what ingredients are contained in them. Cigarettes contain nicotine which is an addictive substance that makes smokers feel hard to quit. Smoking is not only a bad habit but also wastes money. Therefore, smoking is considered as the destruction of health. First of all, smoking damages the lungs, the heart and causes other diseases, in addition; you will learn several reasons why we need to ban smoking. The most important reason why we need to ban smoking is the effects of it on smokers and second-hand smokers. According to statistics tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 400,000 Americans die each year from diseases caused by cigarette smoking. The biggest killers are lung cancer and other smoking-related cancers, and heart disease. Tobacco causes more deaths than AIDS, illegal drug use, alcohol abuse, motor vehicle injuries, suicides and murders combined. In addition, over a 5 year-period, 2 million Americans die because of smoking cigarettes and tobacco. To non-smokers, breathing the air from smokers is terrifying because they only take the bad smoke from them. They even get a higher rate of diseases from that smoke. Thus, to the children, breathing the smoke the risks increase for childhood illness such as asthma and ear infections. Smoking affects the health of pregnancy and the...
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...The Truth about the Economy of Cigarettes Christopher Tucker Central Penn College “The Truth about the Economy of Cigarettes” The topic of the production, manufacturing, taxation, advertising, and laws of the tobacco industry in the United States has always been, and will always remain, one of the most controversial industries in the United States of America. It is an industry where spokespeople from both sides have blatantly lied to the American public in order to further achieve their goals and agendas. Unlike our grandparents and great grandparents, we all know that cigarettes are extremely detrimental to one’s health. Though a Surgeon General warning is displayed on each pack of cigarettes, stating that; smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy. There are so many chemicals in a single cigarette, that it is one of the few products on the market that does not display it’s ingredients on the packaging. After viewing the amount of chemicals in cigarettes, I don’t believe they would even be able to fit them on the box if they tried There are two sides to every agenda. There is always some bad with any good. There are always faults where there is success. Yes, cigarettes are extremely unhealthy for the American public, but it is one of the few remaining markets of production that the United States ranks as one of the top producers in the entire world. It is “Tobacco Season” in our area of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. If you were to...
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...believe that tobacco companies were inducing those who were underage to experiment with the drug. They also claim that tobacco organizations make their marketing campaigns vivid and eye-catching in order to appeal to younger crowds and encouraged them to try their products. In conclusion, this would help create future chain smokers....
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...dealing with the tobacco industry, one must have witnessed certain characteristics of both sides. An advocate must be able to see why the consumer feel that nicotine and tobacco are or are not essential to his or her day-to-day life. From my experience, my children’s biological father was a chronic smoker and later developed mental sickness. Nicotine had a psychotic effect on our relationship. In May 1992, he was diagnosed with mental illness. After being hospitalized for six months, he then realized he had a serious addiction. That nicotine addiction made me realize the validity of his illness and the consequences he would endure. A tobacco and nicotine addiction has the same effect as one with alcohol addiction. Smokers would say, “I can quit anytime,” and other smokers would say, “oh, I only smoke just to calm my nerves." When one knows that he or she has a problem, only that time can one fix it. Tobacco Industry In the world today, the tobacco industry is capitalizing on the consumers’ addiction. Consumers, having the right to purchase tobacco, the risk, of developing a life threating illness, such as lung cancer, seems of no concern to the industry. Meanwhile, non-smokers are very concerned about the risk of second-hand smoke and the effect it could have on their lives. This paper gives supporting insight on reasons for these and other concerns of the consumers. Explain the role capitalism plays in the corporate decision-making. Meanwhile, clearly state if it’s believably...
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...1.0 Introduction 2.0 Introduction of Porter's Five Forces According to theManager, The model of the Five Competitive Forces was developed by Michael E. Porter in his book "Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors“ in 1980 and ever since that time it has become an important tool for analyzing an organizations industry structure in strategic processes. Investopedia explains that Porters 5 forces are frequently used to identify an industry's structure in order to determine corporate strategy, Porter's model can be applied to any segment of the economy to search for profitability and attractiveness. In learnmarketing, Porter's fives forces model is an excellent model to analyse a particular industry. This 5 forces are: 1) Competitive rivalry 2) Power of suppliers 3) Power of buyers 4) Threats of substitutes 5) Threat of new entrants. As the above factors influence industry performance, it is useful to find out about these factors before you enter an industry or if you are wondering why your business industry is not doing well. 2.1 Threat of New Entrant Accordin to theManager, the competition in an industry will be the higher, the easier it is for other companies to enter this industry. In such a situation, new entrants could change major determinants of the market environment (e.g. market shares, prices, customer loyalty) at any time. Jim Wilkinson states that, a profitable industry will attract more competitors looking to achieve profits. If it...
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...Massachusetts. 2400 JFK Federal Building, 15 New Sudbury Street. Boston MA 02203. Dear Sen. Warren. The recently enacted Massachusetts smoking ban is a wonderful idea. It brings joy to my heart that the legislature finally has gotten what concerned citizens such as myself have been trying to bring to the forefront for some time now. I believe that our entrance ways and parking facilities should and have to be smoke free. I also believe that we do not know the true effects of electronic cigarettes, but still very happy that it was included in the ban. It is my belief that all tobacco products should be banned even though some smokers believe that they are supporting the economy with the taxes imposed on such products. I believe that smokers want to levy their ideas against non-smokers because it is their right to. But they may be doing more harm than good. I am writing you today to emphasize that we should stand firm on the smoking ban. I will lend my support in any possible. I hope that these words will not fall on deaf ears. Thank you for taking time out of your busy day. Respectfully Yours The Massachusetts public smoking ban will be expanded to prohibit smoking in...
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...INTRODUCTION The objective of this mini project is the study the structure and performance of national economies and the policies that governments use to try to affect economic performance. Important topics in this mini project include the determinants of long-run economic growth, unemployment, inflation, and macroeconomic policy. In addition, this mini project are also able us to know the measurement of the standard living of a country in term of productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. Besides that, we are also able to determine what is measured by Gross Domestic Product, Inflation and etc as well as know how the government policy could contribute to improved productivity of the country. The picture below shows the brief idea how does Indonesia looks like. Picture 1: Tourism in Indonesia’s island Picture 2: Place to travel in Indonesia Picture 3: City in Indonesia Picture 4: Map of Indonesia Choose one country of the world The chosen country was Indonesia. The reason of Indonesia been chosen because Indonesia is given public an image that Indonesia is a lag behind country than other since there was a tragic event happened in Indonesia in the middle of 1997 all along. This causing Indonesian suffered a great deal and many of them have experienced a very large decline in their living standard. It was irony in Indonesia’s case seen a country...
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...ECONOMICS FOR MANAGERS T3.2013 Assignment Due date: Nature: Assignment Overview: Monday, January 13, 2014. Individual assignment. This assignment is partly based on the attached article published in The Australian on April 26, 2012 entitled “Poor bear brunt of ‘nanny taxes’” by Adam Creighton and a paper written by Sam Oldfield on August 7, 2013, “Cigarette Tax Hike Defies Economic Logic.” Please read the articles carefully before attempting the questions. You will be required to demonstrate your understanding of economic concepts taught in the unit and relate them to the cases in the articles. This assignment is designed to encourage you to think about the applications of economic concepts learned in this unit to real world scenarios. Based on the attached Rubric, your assignment will be graded on your use of appropriate economic theory and concepts, clarity of exposition and overall quality of your answers. Your answers should follow “Guide to assignment writing and referencing”, available at this link: http://www.deakin.edu.au/currentstudents/assets/resources/study-support/study-skills/assignref.pdf. Answer all questions. Limit the total word count of your assignment to less than 3,000 words. Depth is encouraged over breadth: that is, it is more important that you demonstrate you understand a concept fully, rather than talk about 3 related concepts only cursorily. You are encouraged to use diagrams/examples in your answers when appropriate. 40 marks. Allocation as indicated...
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...Cigarette smoking There is a major concern about banning cigarette smokers in the U.S. the mortality among both males and females smokers in the USA is more than three times higher than that among non-smokers. I agree that smoking should be prevented because it leads to many types of cancer and heart disease; secondly health affects exposure of secondhand smoke, thirdly it affects the health of the youth smoking tobacco, and fourthly the cost of treatment associated with cigarette smoking (healthcare). Cigarette smoking increases the risk of dying from cancer of the lungs, esophagus, larynx and oral cavity (as we studied in biology). The harmful effect of cigarettes is the chemical makeup of cigarette. According to Quitsmokingsupport.com Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals , some of those chemicals are the heavy metals, humectants, casting agents ,pesticide, insecticides and nicotine which is an addictive substance added into a cigarette; that is why it is very hard for smokers to stop smoking right away . A friend’s mother who smoked up to 3 packs of cigarette per day for more than 25 years. She looked healthy and often cited that cigarette kills those who were already predisposed to suffer from those diseases. Years later she died, suffered from ventricular arrhythmia which means heart did not beat properly as a result it pumped little or no blood to the body organs; usually caused by nicotine in cigarette. According to Medical News Today (MNT), cigarette smoking...
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...Essay 3: Should smokers pay health taxes or no? Minh Anh Nguyen City University of Seattle Smoking is something that happens every day in our life. People can easily find someone smoking in some street corners, even in public places like train station, hospital, dormitory. It is not strange if you cross the road and see a mom who is enjoying her cigarette in front of her child. It is a kind of action that has become a part of our society and it accidentally makes people think that smoking is normal and it is just a habit and people do not feel like they have to stop it. Even some people are aware of the negative impacts of smoking they still ignore it and let it happen. People used to have the same thinking and concept about smoking. Not long ago, humans believed that smokers should not pay a health tax because the idea of “smoking is just a habit” it went deep into their mind. Until the day they all witnessed cancer took away people’s lives, which was the moment when all the memories and images of smoking throughout her life came up in their head. Now they can remember cancer like it just happened yesterday. It made humane society see things in a different way. Not only cancer is caused of smoking but also million people are getting killed by heart diseases every day. According to Centers for diseases control and prevention (n.d), “Tobacco use causes nearly 6 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than...
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...Cigarettes and other tobacco products should be outlawed. There is no benefit to smoking, it is not only harmful and the leading cause of lung cancer and other lung diseases, but it’s very expensive as well. If this terrible habit was against the law, people’s health would be undeniably better, plus the people that do spend a portion of their paychecks would have that money to help better the economy. Smoking has been the “cool thing” to do for the longest time, starting when the cigarette making machine was introduced in the nineteenth century. Before that, only wealthy males smoked tobacco, usually in pipes. World War II gave smoking a boost, in 1945 production peaked by producing 12 cigarettes every day for every male in America and then...
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...of chemicals. Some smoke components, such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and nitrogen oxides, are gases. Others, such as formaldehyde, acrolein, benzene, and certain N-nitrosamines, are volatile chemicals contained in the liquid- vapor portion of the smoke aerosol…” According to Cigarette Smoke Components and Disease by Jeffrey E. Harris, we can see that there are several toxic chemical elements contained in tobacco smoke such as Carbon Monxide, Hydrogen Cyanide and so on. Scientists have discovered that when one person is smoking around a group of people, not only he would be affected by the toxic cigarette elements but also the group of people around him would be “poisoned”. This group of people is called “secondhand smokers” and the cigarette smoke is called “Environmental Tobacco Smoke” which stands for ETS. Based on the report from United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, EPA concludes...
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...cigarette smoking communicating that this vice causes death. But a threat to health doesn’t seem to be a good reason for quitting anymore. People somehow block themselves and ignore all the information that is given to them. The purpose of this essay is to discuss three effects of cigarette smoking, besides the broadly mentioned possibility of developing cancer or dying, which are the smell of smoke, the stained teeth, and the cost of doing it. The first effect of cigarette smoking, and probably the one that the non-smokers hate the most, is that it permeates everything around it. Smokers usually have smelly hair, breath, clothes, and, if they smoke indoors, a smelly room. The stench of cigarette smoke is very penetrating and hard to remove. Even if the person quits smoking the odor remains for a long time. The second effect of cigarette smoking is one that most people don’t even take into consideration. It stains the teeth yellow or sometimes even brown. Since this effect is long term, most people are not aware of it when they begin smoking. The truth is that a cigarette stain is very hard to eliminate from the teeth, and it will probably end up costing a considerable amount of money. Yellow teeth are disgusting because they give an unhygienic image and make people look older. The third effect of smoking is that it will eventually end up affecting the smoker’s personal economy. Depending on the country the prices of cigarettes can differ. But even at an affordable price the...
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