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POS 201
Saphir
10/27/09
I’m sure I can make a general statement saying that we all know
with their own personal biases? The answer would be all of the above.
Europe with tobacco from the Americas. Twenty years later is 1612,
legal tender. Just less than thirty years later, slavery rises in the
the Immoderate Use of Snuff". This report was the first of its kind. 169
connection between smoking and cancer. Just 8 years after that, Dr.
years media advertizing has popularized it. Now, we live in a time were
showing the harmful effects of tobacco for smokers and people affect
buying the products and suffering from its negative effects. Did you
tobacco related deaths a year? And world wide it’s about 4.8 million
tobacco related death. (The Truth) With those numbers you’d think
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that the industry would be greatly affected and go out of business; but
(The Truth) And the cause of death is lung cancer. So what is being
done to lower those numbers? Aside from the taxes there have been
air and a long life and those rights should not be infringed on by
find out what is in the average cigarette. There are nearly 4000
Centre) The following are a few well known toxic chemicals found in
in floor and toilet cleaners, Arsenic, and the infamous Nicotine, which is
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they lose money on the resale value of their cars and homes, they
spend extra on needs like dry cleaning and teeth cleaning, and receive
and 1% do not hire smokers. The same poll from a survey by the
billion is lost a year, based on figures from the Campaign for Tobacco-
cents) would generate almost $2 billion and obviate the need for the
have a cigarette tax of $2.00 in State Tax, $1.01 in Federal Tax, which
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(Koch)
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Now the FDA
has more power to regulate the Big Tobacco companies. This bill will
now allow the FDA to set product standards and ban some chemicals in
the products. Also, “The F.D.A. would have the power not only to
The FDA will also be able to ban all candy and fruit flavored
this new law, “lifesaving” and that this “new law has the potential to
break the deadly cycle of addiction and put an end to Big Tobacco’s
Now on to the topic of: cigarettes and children. Why is that such
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marketing styles. In fact the courts found the tobacco industry guilty of
many things.
In the 2006 case of the United States vs. Philip Morris (and other
the American people. Here are several points of their deceit that were
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14. And every day, about 3,900 kids of the age of 12 to 17 smoke for
their first time. On top of that, about 1,500 youth become daily
smokers. About 1/3 of them will eventually die from a tobacco- related
Overall, I believe that these bans, regulations, taxes, etc. are put
in place to help those who can not help themselves. Since smokers
higher taxes are meant to deter them from smoking - and we all know
hand smoke and die from lung cancer. But with these taxes and
Works Cited
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Smith, Hilary. "The high cost of smoking." MSN Money. Web. 20 Oct.
2009.
<http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/InsureYourHeal
th/HighCostOfSmoking.aspx>.