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To try and combat this along with improve the health of students, Healthy PSU brought the Smoke and Tobacco Free Campus Initiative into effect in August of this year. This meant that smoking is now banned on campus, and new signs were put up displaying this information.While this program sprung up so quickly, there are also some contradictions within the…

States live with a serious illness caused by smoking. 8.6 million people made the conscious decision to start smoking, a highly addictive activity that can lead to cancer, ulcers, and even death (“Tobacco Facts and Figures”). According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette and tobacco companies spent $9.5 billion in the US on advertising alone in the year 2013. But with all of this money being spent towards such a harmful cause, anti-smoking campaigns started airing their…

Smoke Damage When you were young and watching cartoons you would have come across “the typical cowboy”. Jumping off his horse, he spits out some of his chewing tobacco and looks at his enemy. As the protagonist, he always wins. Next you see the wealthy businessman. He is on the top floor of his very successful business looking over the city. He leans back into his leather chair and lights a cigar he pulled out of a safe full of money that is in his office. Later you see a cop reviewing a case on…

the type of tobacco leaf that is included in the cigarette, the location of where the tobacco plant was picked, and how the leaf is handled. In Australia, the tobacco leaf that is wanted the most is Virginia tobacco. The tobacco from Virginia includes a large amount of sugar content ("What 's in a Cigarette? | myVMC", 2016). Cigarettes have nicotine, an addictive toxic that engenders smokers to crave for a cigarette.The addictive part of smoking cigarettes is a big strength for tobacco companies…

Ethics and Economics of Tobacco Farming: A Case Study of Rural Bangladesh Habibur Rahman1 Jani Parvin2 Abstract Tobacco is being dealt as one of the major cash crops which are largely grown in Kushtia, Chittagong Hill, and northern regions of Bangladesh. Actually it is a non‐food plant used as a basic raw material for products that is proved to be harmful for health, environment and society. Tobacco is both dangerous and addictive. Its production thus raises ethical questions. The study is…

Is this the worst flu season we ever had in the nation? Do people even still want a flu shot? What precautions are being taken to make sure that the flu shot is effective and safe to use? Lately, this year’s flu season is gaining a lot of attention because of how deadly it is. The season starts in December and can last up until late May. The months that the flu has is peaks are in December and March. The flu has been reported to be widespread through forty nine states. Just in January alone,…

Raising Taxes to Reduce Cigarette Consumption Hye Ree Yoon The University of Kentucky Abstract Smoking is a global disease risk factor. To reduce cigarette consumption, the federal government has increased the taxes on cigarette packs. This effective solution has provided evidence that tax increases on cigarette packs significantly reduce the consumption of cigarettes. Therefore, reducing the consumption and prevalence of cigarette smoking with cigarettes need to be incentivized by…

of banning of Tobacco advertising in India has proven more complex than it looks, and has sparked debate in the country with many arguments for and against being debated. In this essay we will summarize the arguments for and against, address the question of conflict of interest, and conclude with a personal recommendation for tobacco advertising policy. One of the objectives of banning tobacco advertising by the Government of India, was to discourage adolescents from consuming tobacco products,…

E-cigarettes are a controversial public health concern that is on both sides of the health spectrum; they are viewed as a safer alternative to smoking tobacco, but poses similar health risks. The 2014 article Why e-cigarettes should be banned from minors by Gary A. Emmett supports the belief that e-cigarettes have negative effects on health and should be inaccessible for minors. Although e-cigarettes are publicized as a safer and less addictive alternative to smoking, e-cigarettes are also…

University president, Roderick McDavis (2015) stated that “We will join more than 1,000 campuses nationwide who ban the use of tobacco on their campuses,”(Lee). Banning smoking will help make the campus area healthy by encouraging the smokers to quit smoking, Ohio University decided to ban smoking on any campus property. The University campus will begin the Smoke and Tobacco-Free Initiative policy in August 2015. The policy will impose by using "a community model” (Hill, 2015). This means that…