Smoking ban

chain to ban tobacco and focus on the health and well-being of its patients and customers (Drell, 2014). This is a nationwide initiative, however, it doesn’t immediately stop the use of tobacco products. In light of CVS’s removal of all tobacco products from its shelves, the drugstore chain plans to offer its customers robust smoking cessation programs (Drell, 2014). The targeted publics are heavy tobacco users—the age range varies, but it includes both men and women. Effects of…

Tobacco advertising ban in India The government of India argues that it had tabled the ban in order to protect youngsters. It wanted to protect the youngsters from smoking. The government also wanted to gain more powers to prevent tobacco smoking officially. The ban was not out of the ordinary as other countries had also effected this, successfully. icmrindia.org (2001) It was generally felt that the government had its citizens at heart and therefore should interfere for their sake and well…

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. Arguments in favour of the tobacco ban are extensive and obvious. These include statistics garnered from years of smoking-related mortalities, and projection statistics. Included among these are WHO statistics citing “3 million deaths from smoking in 1990,”…

1. Summary After reading the article choices, I was immediately drawn to the article “New Federal E-Cigarette Rules Have Heavy Impact in Only 2 States” (McCullough, 2016) The article’s focus is on the new federal rules to ban sales to minors and impose stricter safety reviews for the products. The article mostly focuses on the state of Pennsylvania and Michigan because there are no age limit laws for e-cigarette sales. (2016) Additionally, according to McCullough (2016) there are activist in…

Germany is a well developed country but as its economical growth increased so did the smoking rate. Products like cigarettes are considered a demerit good ( a good which can have negative impact on the consumer and has a negative effect on a third party). The consumption of cigarettes leads to many health related problems. According to the U.S. department of health and human services that the consumption of cigarettes allows around 7,000 gases to enter your body, of these 250 are known to be…

Indicators: 2.2.13 and 1.1.2 2.2.13 - Smoke-free Market Rate Multi-Unit Housing: The number of jurisdictions with a policy prohibiting smoking in the individual units of market rate multi-unit housing including balconies and patios Who is impacted by the problem (National and state-level data within the last 3 years)? There is a high prevalence of people who smoke at multi-unit housing that attracts people to secondhand smoke. Groups impacted include: Tenants (non-smokers): Tenants living…

Popularity and Censorship: An analysis of Chai Jing’s Under the Dome and Nut Brother’s Project Dust Although the word smog (“雾霾”) first appeared in the newspaper Beijing Daily on May 4th, 2004, the smog problem did not raise public attention until 2012 when the government adopted the particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) index as one of the measurements for air quality (Xue 2016; “Baidu Index” 2017). Since then, many artists have created artworks in response to the air pollution. One of the most famous…

In early 2001, the Indian government enacted a sweeping ban on tobacco advertisement, designed to thwart adolescent smoking and empower the government’s anti-tobacco efforts (ICMR, 2001). There were strong arguments made on both sides of the issue of the ban. Both proponents and opponents of the ban were well aware of the conflict of interest that existed between the government of India and the tobacco companies. The situation, at its genesis, could rightly have been called a mess. It was, at…

Should Tobacco Be Legal or Become Illegal? We all know that tobacco causes many cancers, but I do not think we understand the power we have to ban the use of tobacco and to make people healthier. (Pronouns to include the audience) We also do not think of the other things that tobacco causes. It is a cause of distracted driving. It causes users to go into debt as people waste all of their savings on something that has the power to kill them. Often, people let this information go in through one…

This was somewhat due to the lifting of a ban on smoking in 1848. One in ten citizens lived from the tobacco trade and cigar manufacturing. Geraldo Dannemann was wounded in the Franco- German war and following his convalescence he lived some time in Freiburg im Breisgau. There he managed to widen his…