One of the most important questions that has to be raised is whether it is right or even ethical for smokers to pay a high amount of tax on tobacco or not. Or even whether individuals who live a healthy lifestyle and donât smoke are forced to pay a cost for something that they never even did. There are 3 reasons as to why, in my opinion, smokers should pay an extremely high tax on tobacco. Firstly, the most obvious...
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What is tobacco? Tobacco is a plant native to the Americas which is grown all over the world. Its leaves contain high levels nicotine and many cancer-causing chemicals. Tobacco leaves can be smoked as cigarettes, cigars, and hookahs; applied to the gums as dipping and chewing; or inhaled. Tobacco use and secondhand tobacco smoke causes many types of cancer, as well as heart, respiratory, and other diseases. Consumers About 5.7 trillion (5,700,000,000,000) cigarettes were smoked worldwide in 2016. Although overall...
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Introduction As a healthcare professional, we are aware of the correlation between the usage of tobacco-based products and nicotine dependence. To this day smoking remain one of the most seriously and deadly public health issue, due to its ongoing effect on our vulnerable populations, especially those suffering from mental illnesses. In order to achieve relevant and efficient level of care for those healthcare clients which may suffer from nicotine based addictions, we must first explore the coexisting relationship between recognizing...
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Summary / Abstract This proposal is about identifying the causes of tobacco addiction among the youths of Maldives. Since the youth holds the key to the future of any society, it is a really big concern that the number of youths addicted to tobacco use is as great as it is in our society today. Therefore, it is important to identify the root causes of this issue if we are to do find a solution. This report highlights how the...
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Over the years, smoking tobacco has remained one of the main factors in the increased levels of premature deaths and diseases. As many people know, smoking tobacco is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States. Many of these diseases include respiratory problems and vascular illnesses, which are caused by the many carcinogens found in the smoking of tobacco. Smoking cigarettes can stimulate anxiety on the smoker that is caused by the nicotine it contains. Because...
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Tobacco originated in the North and South American continents and became known by Europeans in the 15th and 16th century. Before that however, Native Americans used tobacco in religious and medicinal practices. The native crop later became a fashionable drug for colonists in America. The severe consequences of tobacco were unfortunately not uncovered until much later. Today even, 34.2 million adults in the U.S. smoke cigarretes and more than 16 million Americans live with a smoking-related disease. One way that...
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Every task we perform in our life has some curiosity hidden inside it, curiosity to experience something new. Unaware of its pros and cons we want to experience it. Once we get a spark of pleasure from that experience it becomes our habit and then slowly that habit becomes our addiction. Everything has developed in its own way in each and every corner of this world may it be science, business or diseases. Yes even diseases have shown development, now...
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Nowadays, the rate of tobacco use among children and teens has skyrocketed. In the year 2015 9.3% of high school students rumored to be smoking in the last 30 days. In the same year, 2.3% of middle school students smoked in the last 30 days. Overall, 25.3% of high school students and 7.4% of middle school students have engaged in the use of tobacco Product. Cancer, heart disease, stroke, reproductive effects such as ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, and many others are...
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Background: According to a World Health Organization (WHO, 2019), âevery year, more than 8 million people die from tobacco use, and more than 1.2 million people die from secondhand tobacco smoke-related diseases, including heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.â (WHO). Furthermore, smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year. when reflecting on the extent of tobacco use and diverse products and harms including but not limited to (smoking-related illness, lost productivity, passive smoking issues, agricultural, environmental). The...
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In Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. states that African Americanâs have been victims of unsolved bombings in their homes and churches. In this paper it will be discussed and analyzed how African Americanâs fall victim to the tobacco industry though the targeted marketing and promotion of smoking and menthol cigarettes causing determents to their health. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. shares that his reasons for being in Birmingham are due to injustices the...
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Currently, smoking is considered an epidemic that infiltrates societies around the world. It is looked down on by first world countries, and it is known to be a practice that is harmful to the body, causing many fatal diseases, such as lung cancer. However, this negative view of tobacco was not always held in the past. For much of American history, tobacco and the cigarette industry held an essential role in the American economy, starting from the colonial times. However,...
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Introduction The purpose of the inquiry was to investigate a drug-related issue affecting the health and wellbeing of young people in Australia. The drug I based my inquiry on was tobacco. Tobacco is the preparation nicotine-rich leaves which are cured by a process of drying and fermentation for smoking or chewing. It is a drug which negative impacts the body massively in the long and short term. My purpose for the inquiry was to research the long- and short-term negative...
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Tobacco is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as: âA substance prepared from the dried leaves of a tobacco plant. It can be chewed and smoked in cigarettes, cigars or pipesâ (âTobaccoâ, 2019). Whilst tobacco remains a legal drug, the physical ramifications from using it can be catastrophic and lead long-lasting impacts on the smoker, their family and community. Tobacco is often perceived as a better drug compared to methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin. The purpose of this essay is to...
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Tobacco is increasingly becoming the major cause of death in india, which has risen to six million people per annum globally. The number of premature deaths in 20th century globally were 100 million and according to world health organization (WHO) estimates it is supposed to reach 1 billion in 21st century. Smoking cigarette is not the only leading cause of death in countries like india and Bangladesh , in fact around one third of people in india use smokeless form...
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INTRODUCTION While public perception of the tobacco industry has slowly deteriorated as social culture and research has condemned the consumption of their product, the new upstart e-cigarette industry is quickly taking its place without the same degree of public scrutiny. Specifically, this paper seeks to understand the ethical implications of the introduction of e-cigarettes, otherwise known as vaping products, to an isolated demographic: the youth market. Through our findings, we believe that the introduction of e-cigarettes to the youth market...
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Every year, about 6.7 million tons of tobacco are produced throughout the world. According to Jegede(2019), in the list of top producers of tobacco in the entire world, the top five are China, Brazil, India, U.S.A, and Indonesia in that order. U.S.A is the fourth largest producer of tobacco in the world. Its production in the year 2019 is about 467 956 000 pounds according to statista.com. With all this production and the amount of income it earns the country,...
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