• “Sin taxes” on cigarettes and alcohol are designed to boost revenue‚ not improve public health • Minimum alcohol pricing will exacerbate poverty and entrench inequality without discouraging binge drinking • Most of the costs of drinking and smoking fall on individual consumers‚ not the public. There is no economic justification for increasing taxes on smokers and drinkers. In a report released today‚ The Wages of Sin Taxes (Download PDF) by Christopher Snowdon‚ the Adam Smith Institute condemns
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| HEALTH-PHILIPPINES Young Lives Up in Smoke By Kara Santos | MANILA‚ Feb 15‚ 2010 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking‚ Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. "The younger a child starts to smoke‚ the greater the chances of becoming a regular smoker‚" said Dr Maricar Limpin‚ executive director of the non- government group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines
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E-cigarette use has increased over the past few years and there are arguments on both sides of the topic. Some users use vaping to get nicotine without smoking tobacco‚ hoping to help them quit smoking. Other people are concerned with the fact that people have used e-cigarettes without ever smoking real tobacco before. This is a concern because these people could have an increased chance of using tobacco after being exposed to nicotine. Arguments against e-cigarettes include not completely knowing
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Chemical flavourings found in electronic cigarettes can cause irreversible lung scarring and other respiratory diseases‚ reported a Harvard study released Tuesday. Published in the EHP journal‚ the findings suggest a direct link between e-cigarettes and the severe respiratory disease‚ bronchiolitis obliterans‚ or Popcorn Lung. “In addition to containing varying levels of the addictive substance nicotine‚ they also contain other cancer-causing chemicals‚ such as formaldehyde‚ and as our study shows
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A Project on: Negative and Positive aspects of Cigarettes ____________ Sandeep kumar NCHMCT Roll No.104686 HHA 3rd Year (2010-2013) IHM Meerut ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My project has been successful‚ thanks to my classmates. First of all I am thankful of my project guide Mr._____________ under whose guideline I was able to complete my project. I am wholeheartedly thankful to him for giving me his value able time & attention & for providing me a systematic way for completing my project in time. I would
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Question 1.1 “According to the definition of opportunity cost‚ the more alternatives that we have given up in undertaking an action‚ the higher the opportunity cost.” Please comment on this statement and explain your answers using examples. Ans Opportunity cost of an action refers to the value of the best alternative that must be given up in order to undertake that action. That is‚ the highest-valued option forgone. The statement in the question is uncertain and is determined by situation
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PHYSICS‚TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY. Technology and society or technology and culture refers to cyclical co-dependence‚ co-influence‚ co-production of technology and society upon the other (technology upon culture‚ and vice-versa). This synergistic relationship occurred from the dawn of humankind‚ with the invention of simple tools and continues into modern technologies such as the printing press and computers. The academic discipline studying the impacts of science‚ technology‚ and society and vice versa
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Southridge Private High School Antipolo City “Feasibility of cigarette butts and garlic as insecticide” Submitted by: Satchel Calah Beltran Submitted to: Mrs. Ma. Fatima L. Montoya Introduction: Cigarette butts ends up as a litter. It can be found on the streets‚ public places and even beaches. To name a few‚ it had been a huge problem eliminating these litters because it creates pollution. Traditional butts are made of “synthetic polymer cellulose acetate” and never degrade
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Vaping and Tobacco Vaping is said to be a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes is that really true? Tobacco is a leading cause of deaths in Americans Tobacco cause many types of cancer from‚ bone cancer to the most fatal thing ever lung cancer‚ but wait there’s a way I can smoke without all these illnesses like cancer right‚? Wrong? Vaping is essentially the same thing as smoking tobacco‚ Vaping works as putting liquid into a shell around a coil that heats up and burns the liquid to create
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This essay will review the strengths and limitations of the evaluation approach used for the ACTIVate physical activity intervention. It will also cover recommendations for how the evaluation could be improved. The aim of the evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of the ACTIVate intervention for improving child physical activity levels‚ and to explore the factors that contribute to the observed outcomes. Physical activity interventions are important as it helps promote a better quality of life
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