...Large tobacco companies make their money by getting people addicted to a toxic substance called nicotine, which is found in their products. They accomplish this by targeting children through various food/candy packaging and marketing strategies, resulting in the acquirement of lifelong customers. As children gain exposure to tobacco look-alike products they are familiarized with the social acceptability of chew and cigarettes. Consequently, kids who use tobacco look-alike products will often begin exhibiting a behavior regarding a positive outlook on tobacco products. This leads to a higher rate of tobacco use in these children later in their lives, compared to children who were not exposed. Tobacco that is packaged and tastes like candy is used to lure younger customers into trying it. Tobacco is a very dangerous and damaging drug, however many people (specifically youth) do not realize the potential...
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...How does tobacco link Britain’s empire and America’s development from 1600 onwards? Tobacco is a readily used product in the modern day, mostly within cigarettes. Tobacco had been introduced to the British in the sixteenth century and it was commonly used for pipe smoking. Tobacco is a product that is processed from leaves of plants and it can be used in several ways. One being consumption, others being medicine and pesticides. The exportation and profit making from tobacco started at around the 17th Century. However, in the times that it became popular, the health hazards of smoking were not known by the users of tobacco, so they smokes pipes and cigars to their heart’s content! The Virginia Company founded in May 1607, was what made the tobacco industry start up. The company had many different enterprises that they had ventured into, most of which failed except one: Tobacco. They tested silk making, glassmaking, lumber jacking, pitch and tar and more, and each yielded no success. John Rolfe had been experimenting with tobacco and developed his first profitable export. During this, Spaniards had found that the native West Indians were using tobacco. In seeing this, the Spaniards had decided to take some home with them and then a chain reaction was sparked in which the tobacco plant was used throughout the Mediterranean. So now Spain has their own share of tobacco ready for export as they were importing it as well, this is where Britain joined the craze. English Colonists...
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...Every day in America, a teenager becomes addicted to the most preventable cause of death, Smoking tobacco. Some may do it just because it seems cool, or because they want to fit in. However, they are totally unaware of the dangers of smoking tobacco because of the poor safety warnings on the back of every deadly carton. According to U.S. Senate of Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy,” Nationally, cigarettes kill well over four hundred thousand people each year.” I strongly suggest that tobacco shouldn’t be legal because it’s bad for one’s health, and it can be the most preventable cause of someone’s death. Tobacco is one of the most deadliest, yet legal drugs known to mankind. According to CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), “Smoking causes 443,000 deaths each year in the United States. 443,000. That’s more than the population of some small cities in America. Cigarettes take more lives than automobile accidents, alcohol abuse, illegal drugs, AIDS, murder, and suicide all combined. (Edward M. Kennedy). Tobacco contains nicotine which is one of the most addictive chemicals that exist. Nicotine is actually used to kill insects, and is more addictive than the illegal drug famously known as crack cocaine. But nicotine is just one of the many deadly chemicals in cigarettes. The deadly habit of smoking tobacco has actually existed for centuries. According to an article titled “Smoking” from 2010,” The dangers of tobacco were not always well...
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...In May 1609 the Virginia Company sponsored more colonists to Jamestown Virginia. They lured new investors and attracted new settlers with the promise of free land after seven years of labor. Tales of gold and silver in America also spread throughout Europe from Spain. Many settlers were motivated to travel to America for opportunity and wealth. Among the 150 settlers was John Rolfe with his wife and infant son. They boarded the Sea Venture which on the voyage was hit with bad weather that grounded the ship in Bermuda. There John Rolfe's wife and child died of disease. The settlers built two new ships and sailed to Jamestown in 1610. The settlers arrived to a starving settlement with most of the settlers dead. The tales of gold and silver that spread throughout Europe was not found. Instead they encountered harsh winters and native Americans, viewed as heathens, who rebelled against their intrusion. The colonists tried many different businesses with no financial success. John Rolfe acquired some tobacco seeds from the Spanish variety of tobacco. It...
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...Should the Drinking Age be Lowered to 18? In the United States of America, one is lawfully considered an adult on their 18th birthday. With adulthood comes choices, responsibility, and privileges that they did not possess as a minor. At the age of 18, a person can enlist in the army and die for this country, vote for the future president or other government officials, and be charged as an adult, potentially leading to them going to prison, jail, or facing the death penalty. However, an 18 year old can not purchase or legally consume alcohol in America. Although, some think 18 year olds do not have the physical or mental capacity for alcohol, the national drinking age should be lowered to 18 because teens 18 and older are able to make critical decisions. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed over 30 years ago. This act raised the drinking age from 18 to 21. This act has been poorly enforced in America. 10.8 million underage Americans drink(“Minimum Legal Drinking Age”). The higher drinking age causes teens to drink in unsafe settings. These unsafe, unsupervised drinking situations can lead to spiked drinks, injury, and sexual assault. The drinking age does little to stop...
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...Introduction Tobacco use remains a global epidemic with the US being among the affected nations. A century ago, smoking cigarettes was not prime cause of ailment or death in America, and lung cancer instigated by cigarette smoking was fiction in the past 100 years. It is now among the principal cause of deaths in the US. Statistics shows that smoking is responsible for approximately 443,000 deaths in America and with about 50,000 being secondary smokers. About 45 million Americans are smokers, an estimated 3,800 youths are introduced to tobacco use daily. America spends about $96 billion in smoking-related ailments and $97 billion on productivity, which shows tragic impact to the economy. Smoking is addictive, and its effects is not limited to individual, but to finances and further poses a challenge to the state. Accordingly, there is a need for people to work towards quitting smoking. This paper discusses the effects of tobacco use, the available methods for regulating tobacco, and other new methods that addicts can use to quit cigarette smoking. How Smoking Becomes Addicting and its Effects on Human Health Cigarette smoke contains a concoction of about 400 chemicals. Most of the chemicals lack profound research by experts. The more these chemicals are understood, the more it will become easier to control tobacco use and its effects. Nicotine is among tobacco chemicals that is popular but often misunderstood. It is a sympathomimetic constituent in tobacco that makes smokers...
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... ECO 550 Assignment 1: Market Models Patterns of Change. The Tobacco Industry Describe the industry. Unit 1: History & Economics of Tobacco: History of Tobacco states that, “Tobacco has a long history in the Americas. The Mayan Indians of Mexico carved drawing in stone showing tobacco use. These drawings date back to somewhere between 600 to 900 A.D. Tobacco was grown by American Indians before the Europeans came from England, Spain, France, and Italy to North America. Native American smoke tobacco though a pipe for special religious and medical purposes. They did not smoke every day. Tobacco was the first crop grown for money in North America. In 1612 the sellers of the first American colony in Jamestown, Virginia grew tobacco as a cash crop. By the 1800s, many people have begun use in small amounts of tobacco. Some chewed it. Others smoked it occasionally and a pipe or they hand rolled cigarette or cigar. On the average, people smoked about 40 cigarettes a year. The first commercial cigarettes were made in 1865 by Washington Duke on his 300-acre farm in Raleigh, North Carolina. The American tobacco Company was the largest and most powerful tobacco company until the early 1900s. In 1902 Phillip Morris Company came out with its marble brand. They were selling cigarettes mainly to...
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...Tobacco Industry Irma Paul Business Ethics 309 May 5th, 2015 As a consumer, the tobacco industry should be stop producing, cigarettes, cigars and pipes and selling them to our youth and adults. Smoking is one of the major causes of death in many countries and around the world. Smoking leads to diseases and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. More than 16 million American are leaving with a disease caused by smoking. Each year around half a million American die of tobacco related diseases, and the other die from secondhand smoke. CDC… (n.d). According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s there have been more 20 million smoking-related deaths in the United States since 1964. . – cancer.org ... (n.d). As result 2.5 million American died from exposure to secondhand smoke. – cancer.org ... (n.d). The immune system is the only way of protecting our body from any infection or diseases. People who smoke are more likely to have respiratory infection. CDC... (n.d). Tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million per year by 2030. More than 80% of those deaths will be in low-and middle-income countries. Tobacco facts. (n.d.). According to World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco is one of the biggest health threats we ever faced in America and around the globe. Due to the fact, every six second a person dies due to Tobacco-related. If tobacco industry knows that medical evidence says that smoking will kill you, why tobacco industry keeps selling them...
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...How did they get to North America? According to anthropologists the first human beings lived in Ethiopia, Africa around 2 million years ago for example: Lucy known as the oldest human found there. The most probable reason why the first human left Africa is because of the Ice Age. The cold made life so difficult to survive and somehow reduced in their population. They went through a land bridge, which existed to connect North America and Asia during the Ice Age. * What was the Columbian Exchange? How did the Columbian Exchange affect Europe? How did it affect North America? The Columbian Exchange is basically understand as the exchange in foods, animals, plants as well as diseases between the New World (North America) and the Old World (Europe) followed after the discovery of America by Columbus. The Columbian Exchange affected both world in many ways. For Europe, it brings avocado, potato, tomato, corn, beans, tobacco, turkeys as positive effects and the negative effect are diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. For North America, positive effects: coffee beans, olive, banana, sugar cane, grape, sheep, pig, horse. And the negative effects impact North America are: smallpox, chickenpox, measles etc… * Name four groups of people who migrated to British North America in the 17th century. Why did each of those groups migrate? Virginia Settlement – these settlers known as the first English settlement to migrated in North America. They prefer to seek opportunities...
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...Tobacco Control Policy 1/25/15 To: The Honorable Sylvia Mathews Burwell Office held: Cabinet Secretary Department of Health and Human Services From: Date: January 26, 2015 Re: Tobacco Control Policy: Use of Plain Packets for Cigarette The purpose of this memo is to propose a tobacco control policy. The health policy is expected to contribute towards prevention of notable effects resulting from tobacco use, especially smoking through reinforcing public awareness on the effects of cigarette smoking. Recommendations on policy implementation will also be offered. Summary/ Problem Statement Tobacco use, especially smoking has been attributed ample health conditions. World Health Organization identifies tobacco use as a core concern for public health, being one of the enormous threats to public health in the world. Despite the existence of public awareness programs, tobacco use continues to impact on our society economically, socially, and health wise. Therefore, it is time to introduce a more appropriate approach of passing the message to the peoplethat will complement the existing policies. The policy deals with cigarette packaging, where advertising images should be removed from cigarette packets and replaced with images passing health messages. Discussion Currently, cigarette manufacturers use the cigarette packet for advertisement, brand promotion, and some section for health message. Arguably, the health...
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...Colonial Life In America Throughout the Colonial America it is evident that the American Colonies became gradually more stable overtime. This is evident because there was more diverse economies, there was an establishment of a more sophisticated government, and colonies population stabilized as it increased. The colonies survived, and they became free and independent in Colonial America and later in the United States. The economies became more diverse for the fact that there was cash crops. America’s first cash crop was tobacco. Tobacco was shipped from a young English colony in Jamestown in a ship named Elizabeth, bound for London. It included four barrels of tobacco, about four thousand pounds. These four few barrels changed the whole...
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...advanced technology to surpass other tribes, the Europeans were learning how to cultivate the land. The Natives introduced tobacco to the Europeans which later went on to be one of their main exports. Eventually the binds between both would break and the Europeans would drive the natives off their land. Part 2- Europeans were introduced to slavery in Africa, where they had colonies that were directly involved with the slave trade. This made it inevitable for slavery to find its way over to the Americas. One of the major pull factors for slavery was the opportunity for free labor, which allowed the land owners to cultivate mass quantities of consumer goods. In fact most of the first major consumer goods exported (such as tobacco, corn, cotton, beans, ext) all came from slave plantations. Life for a slave was not the least bit easy, they were taken from their families in Africa then sold to a slave lord who brought them over to America then were resold to plantation owners who then would go on to have them work against their will. They were forced to work and were considered and treated as property. Many were ripped from their families. Though as harsh as slavery was, it played a major role in the development of the Americas. Part 3- Europeans settlers and The Native Americans in the New World When Christopher Columbus first came to America in 1492, he opened all of Europe to a whole new concept to the world and the people in it. Though he was not the first...
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...A Tale of Two Vices The purpose of this paper is to provide a written critique of a research article written by John Rolfe entitled “A Tale of Two Vices: An Applied Economic Analysis of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption.” In this paper I will offer a detailed analysis of the dependent and independent variables used in the study and I will offer an objective viewpoint on the effectiveness of the sampling methods used and the reliability of the study. The author begins his article by describing and defining his purpose for the research project. As a college student he moved from the Netherlands to the United States to study at the University of New Hampshire. The differences in tobacco and alcohol use from Europe to America surprised Rolfe. In beginning his research he found a statistic indicating that “Europe is the heaviest alcohol consumer region worldwide, with alcohol consumption per person over twice the average” (Alcohol Statistics in Europe, 2007 para 6). Europe ranks number one with the amount of alcohol consumed (Alcohol Statistics in Europe, 2007 para 6). The author decided to design a study to investigate the factors that influence alcohol and tobacco consumption across many countries. For the experiment, he used data from 63 different countries. To have accurate results the researcher should have separated the countries and compared them. The author began by conducting base research in academic journals. He learned that, “a country’s unemployment rate,...
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...There is no reason for marijuana not to be legal. Why or why not should weed be legalized? Individuals deserve the right to make choices for themselves, while the government only has the right to limit those choices if the individual’s actions endanger another. | Coffee is addictive. Every morning, all across America, there are people (many of them idling in their cars at a drive-thru) getting java. What happens when these people do not get their coffee on time and as anticipated? Other than a little irritability, not much happens. People seem trustable enough to drink coffee, even though that behavior often results in a life-long addiction. Tobacco is addictive. Every moment of every day and night, all across America, there are people smoking tobacco. What happens when these "smokers" do not get to light up their cigarettes on time and as anticipated? Other than a lot of irritability, not much happens. Despite the enormous number of tobacco-related deaths each year, adults are nevertheless trusted to moderate their private use of tobacco. Alcohol is addictive. Usually in the evening, but not always, there are people all across America drinking alcohol. What happens when these people do not get their alcohol on time and as anticipated? Well, depending upon the individual's level of past alcohol use, there are varying degrees of negative consequences associated with alcohol withdrawal, e.g., headache, loss of appetite, and even seizures in extreme cases. Despite the...
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...1. Evaluate the complex interaction of cultures that resulted with the arrival of European explorers and colonies. Was this interaction more harmful or beneficial to both Europeans and Native Americans? The cultural interactions between the Europeans and the Native Americans were ultimately destructive for the natives, but overall beneficial for the Europeans. It is clearly stated in many history books that the European diseases brought over to the Americas decimated much of the native population. This dramatic loss of population affected the natives willingness to resist European assimilation, and thus contributed to the loss of many native cultures but a blending of European and native cultures. Furthermore, the natives were often...
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