Passive optical network

In studying the question of ethics in business and the complexities which can often arise, no subject is better suited for exploring these considerations than that of big tobacco and the recent banning of cigarette advertising in various countries. In India, an on-going battle with big tobacco has been raging, in an effort to “send a message” to Indians and to Indian youth that discourages smoking. However, like other governments embroiled in such a situation, the process is not clear cut.…

Tobacco has a high demand nowadays. It has become a bad habit in our community. Our youth are more attracted to consume tobacco to relax than to have a healthier activity. Also, we have what is call secondhand smoke. These are when we inhaled involuntarily what others smoke, putting our life at risk because others decide not to care. Tobacco should be banned. The most important reason is health. There are many cancer cases every year because of tobacco abuse, and asthma is another consequence.…

Tobacco is a demerit good, which means that its consumption provides negative externalities towards society. Negative externalities of consumption refer to external costs created by consumers. For example, consumers smoking cigarettes will affect the health of others. They are a type of market failure. A market failure occurs when the allocation of resources are not efficient. The upcoming diagram shows negative externalities of consumption of tobacco. The diagram above is presenting that…

Smoking claims the lives of about 13,000 people every day. This staggering number does not even include the deaths caused by secondhand smoking. This unhealthy trend is becoming more and more of a problem. In order to break down and analyze the effects and elements that make up an anti-smoking ad, a rhetorical analysis will be applied. The advertisement, provided by The County of Orange Health Care Agency, exemplifies the horrid effects of smoking on a young, healthy, and attractive woman. The…

Smoking has several negative effects on people’s health, not surprisingly. It is one of the major leading causes of death lead by lung diseases, cancer, and heart diseases. Furthermore, it does not only affect smokers, but also others around them, through secondhand smoking. Therefore, it is banned from numerous public places to avoid harming others. However, it is still allowed in other areas, especially in Kuwait. Not considering its various negative effects on others, could lead to serious…

During the last two centuries, there has been an increase in the average number of people who expect to live longer in advanced countries. This can be attributed to many factors that include lifestyle, access to health care, better education and employment, but many people who live in developing countries do not have opportunities for this because there are many factors that are injurious to their health. They make their lives more challenging such as poverty, race, gender, weather and so on.…

of loyalty. (Institute of Medicine, 2016) A study commissioned by the Foundation Cancer, discovered approximately 22% of Luxembourg 's population smoke, with a considerable majority of both smokers and non-smokers verbalizing they are perturbed by passive smoking. (Luxemburger Wort, 2012) Helpful…

Stick to your Roots People often pass as something they are not, because they are either too afraid, or too embarrassed to reveal their true identity. For some, it easier just to pass for something they are not, for others it makes life a lot more difficult than necessary. For example, someone who smokes cigarettes, may try to pass as a non-smoker, because they are too embarrassed to admit to the unhealthy habit they have developed. In Nella Larsen’s, Passing, Clare Kendry passes as a white…

Air Pollution in Portugal Thousand of Portuguese die every year, victims of air pollution. The warning comes from a study by the European Commission, which estimates that more than 300,000 the number of Europeans die prematurely each year due to poor quality of the air they breathe. Portugal occupies the 13th position in the ranking of EU (European union ) countries where the situation is more worrying. Also, the UN health agency said in the report that air pollution is now the greatest…

smoker and exhaled back out into the air and side-stream is the smoke from the burning end of the cigarette, which is in actual fact more dangerous that mainstream smoke. Smokers actually only inhale 15% of the smoke and thus, 85% of it is in the air. Passive smokers are just as much, if not more, at harm of smoking health effects as…