Morgan West
Sociology 202
November 17, 2010
2:30 PM
There are efforts all around the world, to try and tighten the restrictions on cigarettes. They are making higher health education risk knowledge, and also they are enforcing higher cigarette taxes for those who refuse to quit. This is especially in Asia and Africa, because their government is spending billions on the marketing to stop smoking. Uruguay is making significant progress mandating that over eighty percent of the package, be covered with health knowledge and warnings. This should be copied by some countries such as Indonesia, because they have little to no regulation on cigarette purchasing, and therefore they are the fifth largest cigarette economy. The Food and Drug Administration is also trying to put graphic pictures of the effects of smoking. Commercials are all over the television, with many people who’s lives were uprooted by lung or throat cancer. Hopefully showing the effects caused by smoking will encourage people to stop smoking, and lower their risks of dying prematurely.
I am so glad to hear that the country is getting together to subside this horrible killer. It goes unnoticed in many places, but kills many each year. Cigarette smoking is a horrible cause of lung cancer, and having more warnings may decrease the purchasing of them. This is directly related to the whole world because cigarettes are smoked every day, and millions of people die each year due to side effects. This was a very interesting article, because it uses many example of the anti-smoking campaign. I hope that the campaign works, and it decreases the amount of people who smoke each year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/global/14smoke.html?ref=health
3 comments:
I totally agree with this blog. If I'm not mistaken I believe cigarettes is the number one killer in the world or in the United States. But either way as you stated Indonesia doesn't have strict cigarette laws because as you remember a couple of months ago there was a indonesian infant that smoked about 2 packs of cigarettes a day. There should be stricter laws in asia concerning this topic.
I agree with you both. I think that people should be allowed to smoke if they want but I definitely think there needs to be more warnings put on the packages to warn people that what they are doing is very dangerous to their health. I think there needs to be stricter laws as well when it comes to smoking. Recently, here in NC they have made several laws that have banned smoking in public places such as restaurants and some community colleges etc. I believe that smoking rates will slowly decrease if more warning advertisements, and other campaign type ads are made known to the public.
I don't think a lot of time and money should go into anti-smoking campaigns. People know the risks. They know they could potentially get lung cancer or mouth cancer if they smoke. Also, there are patches and gum and numbers a person can call to talk to someone to help them quit smoking. I agree with some warnings, especially on the labels, but if people want to smoke they're going to smoke and I think we're wasting our money.
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