Smoking And Tobacco Abuse

The campaign educates the smoker who is trying to quick with advice which will give them a clear understanding on how their health is at risk and the consequences that it will have

Farrelly, M.C., Duke, J.C., Davis, K.C., Nonnemaker, J.M., Kamyab, K., Willet, J.G., & Juster, H.R. (2012). Promotion of smoking cessation with emotional and/or graphic anti-smoking advertising. American journal of preventive medicine, 43(5), 475-482. Doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.07.023

We know that smoking is bad and what ingredients they put in a cigarette, but why do people still do it. This advertisement was called by many throughout the internet, “the best anti-smoking ad ever”. This campaign filmed children walking up to adult smokers, asking them for a light. Every adult took the opportunity to remind the children

The addiction to tobacco, nicotine, and smoking is something the humans have embraced and battled since the early 1800’s. With more and more people falling into the habit and becoming addicted, many detrimental health effects on the body caused people to question what was going on and what was causing these negative reactions in the body. Soon enough, the healthy and “cool” cigarettes that everyone was smoking became the face of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, birth defects, and many other deadly bodily reactions. In the early 2000’s electronic cigarettes (ECs) were developed by a Chinese pharmacist that hoped to allow smokers to maintain their nicotine addiction, but limit or end the harmful and detrimental effects of tobacco on the body, due to his father’s death of tobacco-attributable lung cancer.1 A typical EC consists of a rechargeable lithium battery, a heating tool called an atomizer, which vaporizes a humectant (typically propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and/or polyethylene glycol 400). The humectant contains liquid nicotine. When the smoker inhales, the heating tool is activated by an airflow sensor, and the nicotine is vaporized.1 2

Cigarette smoking is the principal form of tobacco use worldwide and has many adverse effects on the health of smokers. In 2000, there were about 5 million tobacco related deaths globally and smoking currently causes almost 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Aside from causing around 90% of all lung cancer deaths, cigarette smoking harms almost every organ in the body and adversely affects the health of those around the smoker through second-hand smoke. While the rate at which people quit smoking is limited due to the development of nicotine addiction, rates of smoking initiation can be rapidly be changed through intervention. Such interventions include smoke-free policies like that advertised by the “Tobacco-Free Campus” sign pictured

Smoking is one of the most controversial topics in the world, the cigarette while being popular has many negative side effects to people's health. Many companies have made different ads to make people stop smoking, let’s take a look at an advertisement made by Nicotinell to combat smoking and help smokers quit.

With realistic and factual information on a cigarette smoking, that is scary, a person’s attitude and beliefs can change about their unhealthy behavior. Goal wise, the target audience will in turn, stop their unhealthy behavior of cigarette smoking. Methods of communications, in order to deliver the scare tactics, are through advertisements in places where the target audience visits frequently. Ideas of delivery for communications is social media and television (commercials). The public health theory of reasoned action was chosen to incorporate my theory (scare tactics with educational information, helps to deter unhealthy controllable behaviors), other than other alternative models of public health, is because I have high agreeance with the phrase, “It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around” (Duke, 2014). Strategically with educational scare tactics that relate to women ages 18-24 specifically (reproductive issues), their attitudes and beliefs about smoking will change as the reasoned theory chart below

Starting off we see emphasis on a marred woman holding a cigarette, along with the alarming text “Warning” at the top of the ad. “When you smoke it shows” is also clear, due to the large text that was used to display it. Placement of such content like this incites the reader to infer that the propaganda is trying to recommend you to not yield to cigarettes. Smoke is repeated throughout the ad many times to keep reminding the audience that’s related

In the article “Recall of Anti-Tobacco Advertisements and Effects on Quitting Behavior: Results from the California Smokers Cohort” the authors try to research if anti-tobacco television advertisements with personal message can be recall by the person and have a greater impact on smoking cessation. The authors felt that this was an important topic to study because they were concern about the dangers of smoking tobacco. According to Leas et al. (2015) “Nondaily smoking and second-hand smoke exposure can lead to the same negative health consequences that result from daily smoking”(p.90). As a result, the authors engage in a cohort study where they use anti-tobacco advertisements to see which advertisement has a greater recall on smokers, and haves greater effect on smoking cessation.

The authors point out how anti-smoking advertisements do not send a clear message to the students to understand how smoking can impact their health. It seems that the advertisements trick people by sending the wrong message, such as demonstrating that smoking is not as bad as it seems that the more the students see those advertisements, the more propense for the students to smoke. The source is relevant to my hypothesis because it demonstrates that teenagers are unaware of the health consequences that they can get. The author’s goal is for teenagers to understand anti-smoking messages are not explicit and are not demonstrating a clear understanding of the risks that smoking cause. The authors conclude that new advertisements need to be more carefully evaluated for teenagers to recognize that their intentions reflect undesirable outcome in the antismoking advertainments for teenagers to understand smoking and the inevitable result that can be provoked due to smoking.

Tobacco and the abuse of other smoked drugs is still among the top most causes of mortality and disease in the United States. In 2013, Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) published a report unveiling that 18.1% of U.S adults smoke. From the report, Tobacco use topped the list of the most dreaded etiologies of preventable mortality killing more than 480,000 people annually. This has necessitated the initiation of campaigns to promote healthy lifestyles among the population. The Get up and Run campaign is therefore among the evidence of how committed the US government is with regards to smoking cessation.

The instrument for this study will contain ten guiding questions to help focus on research question: In what way does S/R protect against tobacco use. The researcher will construct the questions in line with the SLT’s proposed pathways of learning as discussed in Miller (2011). The first five questions will be based on SLT’s proposed pathways: observational learning, vicarious learning, social cognitive process, self-efficacy, and agency. These questions will be reviewed by my research Chair, and afterwards by experts in the field of TU.

Everyday occurrences in our life become normal we don’t take a second glance. We are surrounded by smoking day to day everywhere we go even if we don’t smoke it affects us. It has been in our society for generations. Families have grown up with family members that smoke or even smoking themselves. Smoking is a large part of our society spending billions while boosting the economy with sales and ads; in the midst of so much negativity surrounding smoking which is it good or bad? We hear the negatives all the time but upsides to smoking are never discussed.

Tobacco smoking is a huge problem in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, states that it is “leading cause of preventable death and diseases”(CDC), and also is one of the causes of cancer. The CDC goes on to claim that cigarette smoking kills 480,000 U.S. citizens each year. To diminish this problem the CDC, launched a campaign in March 2012 called Tips From Former Smokers to encourage current smokers to quit by providing stories of former smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke, as the best way to protect oneself from the “harmful effects of smoking is to never smoke, and if you do smoke tobacco products, to quit” (CDC). The question stands, how do the ads in the CDC Tips From Former Smokers campaign convey the need to stop smoking or to be aware of the impacts of smoking to smokers across the U.S. of all ages?

It has been estimated that more than 36.5 million adults in the United States are currently smoke cigarettes (smoking). As humans, we have addictions, whether it is healthy or not is questionable. Some are addicted to drugs, gambling, sex, and many other potentially harmful or illegal things. In this paper, I argue that tobacco use is harmful to an individual’s health and such individuals should stop smoking.