Assignment on Taxes on Tobacco Course title: Public Finance (HE-206) Submitted to: Nahid Akhter Jahan Associate professor Institute of Health Economics University of Dhaka Submitted by: Md. ZahidHasan 2nd year‚2nd semester Class roll: 22 University of Dhaka Date of submission: 8th October‚ 2012 : Table of contents: 1. Introduction……………………………………………………….05 2. What is tobacco……………………………………………………05 3. Types of tobacco products………………………………………
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Should Viruses Be Considered “The Walking Dead”? Viruses are often misunderstood because they are so similar to bacteria‚ yet they aren’t living. This seems impossible. How can something so sinister not be a living thing? Think about the damage viruses do. How they multiply and invade and make us so miserable. Yet viruses should not be considered living because they do not possess the three most important characteristics of life: reproduction‚ homeostasis‚ and metabolism. Viruses cannot multiply
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Tobacco tax: good for health‚ good for government finances Tobacco use kills over 5 million people each year and is the largest single preventable cause of premature death.1 Tobacco is very costly to society through high costs to treat tobacco-induced disease or through loss of productivity as a result of the premature deaths. But governments have a tool to combat the costs of tobacco use — tobacco taxation. Higher tobacco prices decrease consumption and encourage people to quit Increasing
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Are Viruses Alive? 1. Describe how a virus differs from bacteria. Most Viruses are harmful and their only purpose is to invade a host cell‚ reproduce and destroy the host cell in the process. Close to 99% of bacteria are beneficial with only a few that cause diseases. Life on earth could not exist without bacteria. Bacteria produce nearly half of the oxygen found in the atmosphere. Viruses have no cells‚ nucleus‚ cytoplasm or cell membrane. Viruses consist of tiny particles of nucleic acid
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how major players in the industry have used strategic resources to mitigate the threats to their businesses. Reynolds American Incorporated (RAI) is one such leader in the tobacco industry‚ manufacturing tobacco-related products such as cigarettes‚ smokeless tobacco‚ and cigars since 1875. RAI‚ along with others in the tobacco industry‚ face many challenges most of which are environmental threats to the industry. The major environmental factors that challenge the RAI are federal regulations and ongoing
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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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such progress‚ tobacco use remains widespread. About one in four American adults mokes‚ and each more than 400‚000 Americans die from effects of cigarette smoking. Nonsmokers subjected to the smoke of others also suffer: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke causes more than 50‚000 annual deaths among nonsmokers. Smoking by pregnant women is responsible for about 10% of all infant deaths in this country. Smokeless tobacco and cigars are regaining popularity. The use of smokeless tobacco tripled since
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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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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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