WHO-EM/TFI/055/E Tobacco industry activities in Pakistan 1992–2002 WHO-EM/TFI/055/E Tobacco industry activities in Pakistan 1992–2002 WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Tobacco industry activities in Pakistan 1992 – 2002 / World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean p. WHO-EM/TFI/055/E 1. Tobacco Industry - Pakistan 2. Tobacco – economics 3. Smoking - prevention and control
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Tobacco Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world‚ directly and indirectly responsible for 440‚000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools‚ libraries‚ childcare‚ etc. Because it takes approximately eight seconds for nicotine to reach the brain and each
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Tobacco Ethical Issues The five ethical issues that I have selected from thetruth.com are: misrepresenting cigarettes as a safe consumable good‚ using flavored tobacco to appeal to a larger demographic‚ referring to children as “replacement” smokers‚ cigarette butts kill fish and micro-organisms‚ and helping minorities get jobs to buy cigarettes. Misrepresenting cigarettes According to the information available on thetruth.com‚ big tobacco has been implying they are producing a safe consumable
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Tobacco has remained to be the most used drug all over the world. People who consume tobacco have no idea of what goes into their body or what health problems they might have in the future. The most common health problem is cancer. Tobacco is an American plant which is a member of the nightshade family. Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana . It has remained an important
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Tobacco is a plant that can be used once it is dried or fermented. Its uses are mainly for smoking or for chewing. It contains nicotine‚ which makes it very addictive. Tobacco is also a nervous system stimulant and affects numerous things in the human body such as the heart rate or blood pressure. Tobacco in history was known to have aided people’s medical problems and was also a release for many people. That is also something that people believe it is used for today; as a release for its users
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Have you ever wondered what kind of effects tobacco has on the average high school student athlete? Tobacco can not only affect the player’s athletic performance but can also lead to many harmful side-effects later on in their life. A recent study shows that in over a decade numbers of high school athletes that use smokeless tobacco has grown from 5-6% to 10-11% ( CDC‚ 2015). When used so early in a person’s life‚ tobacco can cause smaller lungs‚ DNA damage that can later lead to cancer‚ and cardiovascular
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Cigarettes Should be Made Illegal Tobacco has been in America for nearly 8000 years. It started being cultivated and used for pleasure around 2000 years ago. (Cancer Council) People have been using it for a very long time. That means that the past 2000 years‚ it has been causing hundreds-of-thousands of deaths. Tobacco is widely known for its cancer-causing ways. The assumption could be made that people would stray away from it. The reality is that people constantly use tobacco products. In 2006‚ consumers
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sponsorships have taken over professional sports. In this paper‚ Alcohol and Tobacco sponsorships will be the issue of this paper. Sports sponsorship has become an important marketing tool for advertiser’s because of the flexibility‚ broad reach‚ and high level of brand or corporate exposure that it affords‚ (Krapp‚ 49). Yet some sponsors have created an uproar with in the society‚ these are namely alcohol and tobacco products. These two make up about half of the sponsorship in professional sports
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The tobacco industry has contributed to the growth of Malaysian economy where the industry ranked 5th out of 92 sectors with the total economic output being RM11.7 billion or 3% of GDP . Moreover‚ tobacco plantation in Malaysia grew from a mere of 8 hectares in 1959 to 12‚148 hectares in 2004; whereby East Malaysia has approximately 1‚200 hectares. Therefore‚ the industry indirectly contributes significantly to the country’s economy where more than 190‚000 employment in 2003; as per study conducted
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The history of tobacco shows nothing but the positives but tobacco is actually harmful and potentially deadly. Tobacco was discovered by the American Indians and believed tobacco to be more than it actually was. It was used in many ways and all of them was thought to be totally positive effects‚ not knowing how harmful it really was. They had no idea that tobacco caused lung disease‚ buerger’s diseases and was also highly addictive. It was not until now that the world started to realize the major
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