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    Secrets of the Tobacco Industry In Vanguard’s documentary, Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes: Secrets of the Tobacco Industry by director, Alex Simmons, Vanguard sends correspondent, Christof Putzel to Jakarta, Indonesia to investigate the tobacco industry there. The documentary talks about how America no longer allows cigarette and tobacco ads and commercials, instead the country focuses scare tactic ads that stop people from smoking or keeps them from starting. The tobacco industry is losing millions of

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    The War on Tobacco

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    Tobacco Regulation Tobacco companies have been in a battle with anti-smokers for a while about regulating tobacco, and there has been a war between tobacco companies and anti tobacco crusaders, because of regulating tobacco and some lawsuits. For one viewpoint regulating tobacco would be a good thing to do, anti tobacco crusaders are saying that regulation of tobacco is necessary to protect public health; on the other hand the other viewpoint is say that the tobacco companies are saying “regulation

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    Debating the use of Tobacco The use of tobacco has numerous side effects and creates horrible medical issues and horrible side effects. It is a harmful and financially wasteful addiction, and it should not be used. Tobacco is a preparation of the nicotine-rich leaves of a plant grown throughout the world, which are cured by a process of dying and fermentation for smoking, chewing, and other uses. Columbus was the first european to discover tobacco in 1492. Tobacco back then was used for trade.

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    Ever wonder what is Tobacco? What is it made of? How is it harmful? Smoking tobacco is the process of inhaling smoke, Smoking tobacco is inhaled through the mouth. Tobacco is a plant that grows in warm, tropical areas. Smoking tobacco originated around 5000 B.C. in the Peruvian Andes. On October 15, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco. Christopher Columbus brought the tobacco leaves that were dried from the Indians, Indians gave Christopher Columbus the plant as a nice gesture and a thank

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    Controversy On Tobacco

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    A controversy over tobacco has been the main interest of the Indian Government and Tobacco Industries. The value of profit and ethical concerns are the primary factors underlying the debate between two opposing parties. The prohibition of tobacco has been trending in foreign nations such as Finland, Norway and France. To conduct similar constraints is the intention of the government of India. Endangerment and possible victims of hazards are the concerns of those who are in favor of banning

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    Laws: Tobacco And Other Stimulants As a result of confirmed research that smoking and secondhand smoke has devastating effects to our health, new laws have been passed by the Health Department making an attempt to preclude smoking, second hand smoking, strengthen smoke-free air laws, reduce the access of minors to tobacco, and restrict the availability of discounted or untaxed tobacco products in the United States. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any nationwide federal smoking

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    Smokeless Tobacco

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    If you smoke you can get cancer and many different diseases. After you quit smoking the risk of having a stroke can go down to the same as a nonsmoker. Chewing tobacco and snuff are products that are called smokeless tobacco. Now please read on if you want to know more about the health effects, addiction struggles, and smokeless tobacco products. Every time you smoke it is awful for your health and causes cancer, heart disease, and respiratory diseases. Cigarettes have at least 28 chemicals

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    Cleary On Tobacco

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    the cost of one pack cost $5.5 then the cost of production for that pack would be $18. Cleary the tobacco industry does not do any good to the economy, it only taking over 3 times the amount from the economy. Although some states have been trying to cover health expenses by rising taxes to pay for healthcare however it will never be high enough to cover them. In addition to this, the use of tobacco decrease workers’ productivity. For instance, a smoker would be absent from work and still getting

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    The Origins of Tobacco

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    Tobacco The Spanish and Portuguese word tobacco comes from Tiano, the Awakan language of the Caribbean. The N.Tabacum plant is no longer grown in the wild because it has been so long cultivated. Tobacco originated in Virginia but is now mainly grown in Russia, India and Turkey. The usage of Tobacco is actively practised by approximately 1.1 billion people and up to one third of the adult population. Statistics of smoking show that the use of tobacco has either levelled off or declined in developed

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    Response to “The Tobacco Endgame: Is It Possible” “The Tobacco Endgame: Is It Possible?” Written by Thomas E. Novotny and published in PLOS Medicine is an article that reflects on how tobacco has been cancer in society and the newer approaches that are being made in order to stop this “epidemic”. Tobacco kills 6 million out of the more than 1 billion users yearly. A meeting was held in 2012 concluded that what was being done was not enough. One solution offered was to create a smoke-free generation

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