...Control and Prevention, smoking a single cigarette removes an estimated fourteen minutes from the average person’s lifespan. It should be obvious that time is precious and should not be thrown away after every cigarette. However, forty-three million people in the United States still make the decision to smoke habitually. In the modern American society, the dangerous of tobacco use has become moderately common knowledge. It is strongly reinforced through education, the media, and impacting examples. If an individual is given this knowledge, it is difficult to discover proper rationale for the desire or continuation of tobacco use. Despite the present facts, tobacco is still used by a mass amount of Americans, and remains to be one of the leading killers in the country. In spite of the efforts to raise awareness, exponential amounts of people still indulge in smoking and chewing tobacco. Tobacco may cause serious and fatal health risks for the user and those who may obtain it unintentionally from secondhand smoke, and may cause serious problems psychologically, physically, and hygienically. Smoking tobacco indisputably leads to many different health risks and seriously increases a person’s opportunity to develop a wide range of diseases. According to the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention, smoking damages nearly every organ in the human body and will greatly diminish a person’s overall health. The main health concern from smoking is the development of cancer...
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...) Not only do cigarettes cause diseases, they cause smokers to become unattractive and to age faster. Whitehead states that your skin wrinkles quickly because of poor circulation, you will have bad breath, and yellow and brown stains on your teeth. Smokers should be protected from all these major health problems caused by cigarettes. By making cigarettes illegal, they will no longer be able to harm themselves. Smokers and nonsmokers everywhere are suffering due to the harmful effects of cigarettes. Nonsmokers should not have to be exposed to these deadly effects. Smokers should not be allowed to be able to harm themselves by means of this literal poison. Across the nation, cigarettes are beginning to be banned in certain public places including parks, restaurants, and workplaces. People are starting to understand the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Although these restraints help, banning cigarettes in only a few places is not enough. In order to completely stop the horrible effects of smoking cigarettes, they must become illegal. By making cigarettes illegal, no individual will have to suffer from third-hand smoke, second-hand smoke, or health problems caused by smoking. Cigarettes have killed too many people; it is time for them to finally be put to an...
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...The Smoking Ban Debate Smoking, a hot button issue that has gained momentum is on the verge of exploding. Smoking bans are the current answer to the growing backlash from the general public over second hand smoke, a controversial action which brings the subject of individual rights to the forefront. Tobacco use has been debated for hundreds of years, with the medical field describing tobacco use as a “deadly narcotic” as early as 1853. With momentum gaining a pinnacle, regulations implementing and enforcing smoking bans are widespread, with oppositions position that these bans impose on individual rights. David Hudson wrote “The Department of Justice once stated smoking as the single leading cause of death in the United States”. An author/ research attorney who specializes in First Amendment rights, his book, Smoking Bans, widely discusses the impact that smoking bans have protecting public health, while some believe it infringes on individual rights. Key issues surround the debate that revolve around individual choice, social responsibility, and governmental power, and with the issues bring a wide variety of interests. A 2000 lawsuit Supreme Court ruled the Food and Drug Administration was not allowed to regulate tobacco as a drug. To many, this seemed like a logical solution to a smoking culture glamorized by Hollywood in the 1950’s into the 1070’s. To others, it would have ineffective results as the Liquor Prohibition proved to be in earlier years...
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...Smoking For several decades, smoking remains one of the most common problems in the world even though people are aware of the health risks involved in smoking. Smoking causes harmful effects in the body. There have been numerous reports linking cigarette smoking to diseases such as cancers of the lung, mouth, heart attacks, and other ailments. Moreover, smoking in public areas is an unhealthy habit because it harms not just the smokers, but also others who breathe the smoker’s cigarette smoke, that called secondhand smoke or passive smoke. Most studies of the effects of smoking focus on the public health aspects. However, smoking also negatively impacts on society through environmental problems and economic problems. Therefore, Federal and State Government should ban smoking in public area. When thinking of disease caused by smoking, the first one that comes to mind is always lung cancer, but there are many other serious diseases that are associated with smoking. Smoking damages nearly every organ of the body and diminishes a person’s overall health. Most of the substances contained in tobacco smoke are harmful to the body such as: tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide. They are the major cause of cancer as well as the heart attack, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Actually, in 2010, the Surgeon General at U.S Department reported that: “Smoking is a leading cause of cancer and death from cancer. It causes cancers of the lung, mouth, throat, kidney, stomach as well as acute...
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...Smoking Advertisements and Commercials For this assignment, I will be writing about anti-smoking advertisements and commercials that I see a lot on television while I am trying to watch the Big Bang Theory and sometimes banners on an Internet page. Lately, I have been noticing a lot of anti-smoking commercials from the CDC interviewing people whom have been smoking for a long time. People, whom are being interviewed, have serious health problems due to the effects of smoking. These ads will explain how the ex-smokers live their life’s differently because of the damage from smoking. Terrie Hall was the most well known person in these CDC commercials. Terrie started smoking when she was in high school, and now she is facing the consequences for doing it for so long. Terrie was working with the CDC to show not only to teens but also to adults what smoking did to her. Terrie’s condition with cancer was getting worst and she requested the CDC to interview her while on her deathbed to show that smoking took her life away. Terrie Hall died in September of last year. It has been said that the last commercial of Terrie made a big impact to society because the emotion appeal it delivered to the audience. The emotional appeal was evoking negative emotions like fear, guilt, sadness, and anger towards smoking. The audience might develop the fear of smoking, knowing what kind of damage it can do to someone’s body. Audiences might build up the emotion guilt for the current smokers. Audience...
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... | |2A.M1 |Analyse the benefits of different types of health promotion to individuals and the nation, using selected examples. | |Discuss how different types of health promotion are used to benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and the nation, using selected | | |examples. | | M1/D1 Unit 5 |Name & type of Health promotion |Describe what it shows [Effect of alcohol & impact of alcohol] |What message is it trying to promote? |How could this benefit the individual? |How could this benefit the nation? |Is this an effective promotion? | |[E.g. leaflet/poster/video] | | ...
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...Although smoking rates have gone down over the last few years, there is still a need for education related to smoking and smoking cessation. In the Windshield Survey, it was stated that due to local and state regulations, smoking in public places is illegal and since these laws have been in force, smoking rates in the area have dropped. “New survey results show Washington’s adult smoking rate has dropped to a new low of 14.8 percent. That’s down from 15.3 percent the previous year. Washington now has the third lowest smoking rate in the nation—the state’s best ranking since measuring across all 50 states started in 1995 (Washington State Department of Health, 2010).” Even with the lower rate, there is still a need for more education, especially among the lower income group. According to the Washington State Department of Health (2010) website, “The smoking rates among people from low income or with lower educational backgrounds remain high at 29 and 27 percent, respectively. While people with lower incomes try to quit as often as people with higher incomes, they are less successful.” My subject family has a mother and father who are chain smokers and two teenage children who are suffering from the effects of second hand smoke. The oldest child is also experimenting with cigarette smoking when at friends’ homes and before/after school, unbeknownst to her parents. According to U.S. department of Health and Human Services (2011), “850 young people age 12 to 17 began smoking on a daily...
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...Smoking is a practice in which a substance, mostly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. The most familiar process of smoking today is through cigarettes, it’s mainly manufactured by businesses but also hand-made from detached tobacco and rolling paper. It is currently the leading cause of death in our country, due to its harmful and addicting contents, such as nicotine and tobacco. It is also the largest cause of preventable death in the world. Smoking should be prohibited or restricted in all public places because it has been shown to be hazardous to health. I think that our country should ban smoking and the production of cigarettes in order to become a healthier nation. The arguments against smoking have been very known to the public. Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health. Smoking causes many deaths because it leads to many complications such as heart disease, lung problems and numerous types of cancers. Despite these health problems, cigarettes are can easily be found in almost every store in the United States. As we know, smoking also act as the pivotal cause of chronic bronchitis. Smokers inhale the smoke into their lungs, which irritates the air passages. This produces mucus, developing into chronic bronchitis. Meaning the more smoke you inhale, the more it affects your lungs but it can be more dangerous to a passive smoker who breathe in the smoke by being in close quarters of the actual smoker. Second, the bad effects of smoking...
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...Unit 5 (P1): Describe health promotion and the purpose and aims of three different health-promotion activities. Unit 5 (P2): Describe how different types of health promotion are used to benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and the nation. What is health promotion? Health promotion is the process of helping or showing to people on how to improve their quality of life. It will help to choose appropriate choices in terms of better health. It enables people to increase control over their health and effects thereby improving their health. It cannot be forced to the people to follow certain health routine on contrary it will get choices and information for people to choice right healthy lifestyle. What are the aims of health promotion?...
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...cigarette advertisements be banned? Smoking is harmful to health, both active and passive smoking. Excessive smoking is very easy to get cancer this is terrible. In addition, smoking will hurt people's teeth. Those who always smoke can damage their teeth and teeth are always yellow. This makes people feel uncomfortable. It was not until you feel that they realize that it actually has an impact on advertiser’s pressure decentralization. If you do not have all of these advertisements will not be persuaded to smoking. The adults have a better understanding of what is right or wrong for them; young people are the main target of cigarette advertisements, whether they are trying to stop smoking or to promote it, smoking has a direct effect on the decision of young people (The Materials, 2000).Although people would like to see a ban on these unhealthy products advertising, it is undeniable that cigarette advertising is a waste. In my essay I will explore the reason and full consistent with this idea. Admittedly, uncensored television advertisements are most solid reasons of initiating smoking among young people in order to catch more young people’s attention. The uncensored television advertisements make it more alluring. For example, utilizing big names, vivid scenes, and great melodies thus their earnest attempts. However, young people like to imitate what their heroes are doing because some young people trust the smoking advertisement is true. They are not developing...
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...Student’s Name Professor Course Code Date Psychology Drug Abuse Introduction The aim of this research paper is to discuss contributions offered by anthropology especially, ethnography in the study of addiction and recovery basing arguments from the book, ‘Anthropology of Addiction and Recovery’. The paper further lists the criteria for substance use disorder and thereafter gives an explanation to the negative impacts of alcohol on Native American nations. Finally, the paper will show detailed information on how specific cultural knowledge was used to market cigarettes. Four specific contributions that anthropology, especially ethnography, has offered in the study of addiction and recovery. Ethnography is the study of people, culture and how the environmental and cultural factors affect values and behaviors of a person or groups of people in a social setup. A study of ethnography conducted outside United States of America reveals that the number of drug ethnographies has grown steadily since 1960s because many social issues are associated with drug use. Ethnography illustrates that drug use is not one phenomenon, but many since specific drug is used in specific situations. According to Glasser (2012), Ethnography clarifies the different implications of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the life of an individual. According to Glasser, Ethnography also explains the psychological and physiological implications of the use of such drugs. Ethnography further indicates...
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...the United States. So then where is Cuba exporting this product to generate such large numbers? Western Europe is responsible for the business, Imperial Tobacco Group located in Britain to be more specific, which is the largest cigar distributor to European nations. With a relationship like this one, the benefits are on each side of the transaction. The Imperial Tobacco group employs over 37,000 people and operates forty-seven manufacturing sites across the globe (Imperial Tobacco Group). That is a large amount of Europeans being employed by a growing industry. With the company mainly based in the United Kingdom, Western Europe is the biggest consumer of Cuban Tobacco right now (Money News). Imperial Tobacco remains at the top for cigar sales across Western Europe. Where would this power house company be without the fine Cuban tobacco? The company would definitely not be worth as much as they are now. The profit for Imperial would not be as high and the amount of employment would certainly not be where it is at. The people of Western Europe can get their tobacco from anywhere, including the United States for a cheaper price. The countries of Western Europe want to continue their business with Cuba. “The European nations want to improve their goals on supporting a transition to a market economy as well as...
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...Effect of Cigarette Smoking Eric Kiruja Dr Ondieki 4th October, 2015 Tobacco smoking remains a global concern, as the tobacco industry continues to penetrate even into the developing and least developed nations. This practice has been associated with a myriad of problems and, as a result, its use should be me minimized if not outlawed. The following effects present the grim effects of cigarette smoking through which people can gain useful insights as to why they should not adopt this behavior. These effects can be classified into: Social effects While, for some people, cigarette smoking can be viewed as a way of socializing and connecting with others, it has its drawbacks. First, it leads to the users being subjected to isolation and social stigma. As the rate of which the number of people who have taken up this habit increases so is the number of individuals who are intolerant to smoking. As a result, the users tend to feel as if they are being despised and are socially unaccepted. In addition, more and more countries have placed restrictions on smoking in public areas. These restrictions serve to limit the freedom of the smoker in that he/she is always preoccupied with worrying about whether the area they intend to go will allow smoking. Also, smokers may find themselves having their prospects for any form of romantic engagement or dating reduced significantly to other smokers who only constitute less than 21% of the average adult...
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...Government Regulate People’s Choice A healthy nation translates to faster growth, productivity, innovation, and other factors that contribute to well being of its people. Therefore, government should prioritize on ensuring it’s nation is healthy. Government reluctance on health issues can cost any nation a fortune. However, government involvement should cover all sectors of the health department. The government should prioritize these sectors, for example: FDA, disease control, and many more. Concerns have been raised concerning smoking, drinking and eating habits as they are the main causes of death in the world today. Diseases related to unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking, poor diet, and GMO’s are rampant in developed countries. While, trying to unearth the truth about unhealthy habits, the ideal posed in this paper has most health professionals and government officers have been struggling to answer. It is morally correct to have the government regulate personal choices on the above raised problems. As mentioned early, mortality rate caused by unhealthy habits is staggering. The leading causes of these deaths obesity and diseases like diabetes, coronary heart failure, and respiratory diseases caused mainly by unhealthy diet, smoking, and drinking (DA and DHHS, 20). Governments are reluctant to regulate personal choices on what one can eat, drink, and smoke. However, there is massive campaign to ensure that people know the health risk related with these...
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...The Effects of Smoking Smoking is one of the most common vices that some people have. For smokers, it has already become a part of their daily routine. In fact, the number of smokers has been dramatically increasing every year. In this essay, I will be discussing more about smoking with the hope of convincing smokers to consider quitting smoking. According to a news by the Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations (FAO), the number of smokers has increased from 1.1 billion to 1.3 billion worldwide which is equivalent to an increase of about 1.5% annually. If we are to count the tons of tobacco sold annually, it would reach about 7.1 million (“Higher world,” 2004). Given that fact, it is very disturbing and disappointing to know that this bad habit is slowly spreading to almost seven billion people worldwide like an epidemic. However, let us try considering some of the reasons why they smoke. Seeing their older relatives or their parents smoke makes them consider starting smoking as well. As a result, most teenagers think that smoking makes them look matured. Another reason why they smoke is peer pressure. If one’s group of friends is a group of smokers, there is a high possibility that he will also be influenced by them for the sake of fitting in. Minors also tend to be excited to try something new such as smoking. Some also consider smoking as their way of relieving from their personal problems; it is where they pour out all their stress. Lastly, they use...
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