impact of raising cigarette taxes on the consumption of cigarettes? (1 point) Provide some estimates of this measure while clearly citing the source. (1 point) Briefly mention two factors that can affect its size. (2 points) Assuming an adult smoker allocates income between smoking cigarettes and other goods‚ what would be your guess about the slope of the price-consumption curve for cigarettes? (2 points) Price elasticity of cigarette demand is the most relevant measure used in this assessing
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Smoking-related deaths are mainly due to cancers‚ chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart disease. About half of all smokers die from smoking-related diseases. If you are a long-term smoker‚ on average‚ your life expectancy is about 10 years less than a non-smoker. and in the UK about 8 in 10 non-smokers live past the age of 70‚ but only about half of long-term smokers live past 70. The younger you are when you start smoking‚ the more likely you are to smoke for longer and to die early from
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is fair to discriminate against smokers‚ forcing them to stand outside and smoke? On the other hand is it fair that non-smokers should have to inhale second hand smoke which can dame their health? (Do you support this ban or do you oppose it?) Personally I oppose it as I believe that non-smokers shouldn’t be subjected to a smoky environment on a night out. I am a non-smoker which would undoubtedly be the reason behind me supporting the ban however if I was a smoker I would probably view the ban in
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range of tobacco associated pathology. This intervention‚ monitoring the attractiveness of a consumer product‚ was designed to raise consumers’ awareness of the ills of tobacco use‚ motivate quitting‚ and discourage uptake of smoking. A sample of 587 smokers were recruited and baseline data collected as a part of an annual cross-sectional survey of the South Australian population through an arbitrary representative population survey carried out in 2005‚ preceding the introduction of new warnings. A subset
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well as they could. There are lots of reasons people think that smoking in public areas is okay‚ but do the smokers think about the other people around them? It is not fair to the people who have made the choice not to smoke‚ to have to walk through a group of smokers’ second hand smoke to get into a store‚ or to look at cigarette butts scattered all over the city they live in. Non- smokers should have the right to choose if they want to be around cigarette smoke. We need to make a change. Smoking
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assive smoke is when non-smokers are breathing in the smoke that a smoker is smoking. Passive smoking is not good‚ because non-smokers breathe it in‚ as well as the smoker‚ and it is very harmful for the non-smokers as well as the smoker. It is also a huge source of indoor air pollution. Four-fifths of the smoke that builds up in a room with a smoker is the more harmful "sidestream" type. Tobacco smoke has over 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ which includes 40 carcinogenic agents that are cancer-causing
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revenue more than 500 times than what these spend on non-smoking campaigns. The turnover targets of the tobacco industry also calls for anti smoking charitable organizations to prevent smoking for the freshers and take into confidence the regular smokers to quit. Different Messages should be used to impress people and these should be very much effective through a research. All these messages should reach the people through an outdoor campaigning or through radio‚ television or distribution of printed
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smokes. However‚ this is because smoking in public areas will be a disturbance to the people around the smoker and it will shorten the lives of the smoker. By restricting some of the public areas not to smoke‚ lots of people will benefit from that. Why should smoking be banned in public areas? There are two reasons for that. Firstly‚ it damages the health of the smoker and the passive smoker. The second reason is smoking may be a disturbance to the people around it. I believe that smoking should
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CREATIVE BREIF Client: Hong Kong Council On Smoking and Health (COSH) Contact: 2838 8822 enq@cosh.org.hk Product/ Service: Quit Smoking- “One in two smokers will die early” Creative: TV Commercial Date: 2012.11.06 (YY/MM/DD) Background (History): The total smoking ban was started on 1 July 2009 which was implementing all indoor areas and some outdoor areas to be smoke-free. But the people are continuous smoking and lead the harmful secondhand smoke which affects others as well. In order
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The Republic Act of 9211 is an excellent law because it doesn’t strip the citizens‚ smokers or non-smokers alike‚ from their own perspective rights. In section 5 of this act‚ the bill states that smoking is prohibited in all public places. This is good because it protects non-smokers from second hand smoking‚ which is known to cause lung cancer and is very hazardous for the health. This way the health of the non-smoker isn’t affected in any way. The public places where they implement this law are pretty
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