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    Changing Face of a Global Industry, provides and extensive examination into the lives of tobacco famers residing in North Carolina and the global tobacco industry as it undergoes profound changes though facets such as globalization, industrialization, the anti-tobacco movement, and debates over immigration. The seventh most valuable agricultural commodity in the United States; tobacco is a $1.5 billion dollar industry and is valued above all other vegetables produced in the United States. This commodity

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    sell and produce tobacco products all around the world. Tobacco products include cigarette, cigar, pipe, and chewing tobacco. Tobacco smoking is “the single largest cause of preventable death and disease in our community.” (Tobacco. 2006) With a society becoming more prosperous, education is improving and a concern for quality of life is resulting in a strong anti-smoking sentiment on all levels of society. Therefore the present and future marketing activities of the tobacco industry are heavily impacted

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    INTRODUCTION: In the current fast paced lifestyle, it is important to create health awareness among people in order to improve the overall well being and health of the community. As per O’Donnell (2009), Health Promotion can be defined as “the art and science of directing people to establish the synergies between their lifestyle and their health, enhancing their motivation and supports people to change their lifestyle to strive for an optimal health, thus increasing the overall well being at community

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    through the colors is the white color of the scalpel and the little bit of white background that shows beside the person’s head. The white color is important because white signifies “transcendence and purity” (Gude). Purity is the attribute that the campaign is looking to associate itself with because they offer the truth, and from the truth, the reader is able to decide for himself or herself what their future should be. The white background is interesting because it could be a way of telling the audience

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    Final Presentation on the Campaign to Combat Childhood Obesity Luthfur Nahar California State University Final Presentation on the Campaign to Combat Childhood Obesity Despite the best efforts of public health officials, educators, dieticians, and many parents, childhood obesity remains a stubborn problem in the United States. This document and the accompanying PowerPoint presentation is the group’s final presentation of a health information campaign to combat childhood obesity. We cover the

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    Would anyone engage in smoking cigarettes if each cigarette had an effect written on the side, such as lethal, or fatal? Advertisements pop up on the TV commercials, in newspapers, and magazines that illustrate the reality of what happens when engaging in smoking tobacco, but yet people still smoke cigarettes. Some of these advertisements campaigning against big tobacco companies use pretty graphic and shocking images to convince the population that tobacco is just awful for the body. Health organizations

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    healthcare environment. In addition, the health promotion source that this essay will be examining is the National Tobacco Campaign, aimed at altering smoking behaviours, plus the associated advertisement strategies used, and lastly the psychological theories associated. According to the Australian Government Department of Health website (2013), The National Tobacco Campaign (NTC) is a nationally recognised health promotion movement (provided under the organisation QuitNow Australia and launched

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    companies after the 1964 Surgeon General’s report found smoking increases the risk of lung cancer (Greens, Nasthisa). This is surprising due to how strong the culture of smoking was at the time. This ban however didn’t stop smoking from being depicted on popular movies and television shows. Forty-five years have passed and characters continue to smoke. What if the fact was thrown out there that the main audience for these shows are children? Smoking is a habit that becomes an addiction and seeing celebrities

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    and to persuade us into buying them. The ongoing battle between promoting smoking and promoting anti-smoking in the advertising world still continues. Cigarette companies spend billions of dollars on advertising and promoting cigarettes each year. According to CDC cigarette companies spent approximately $8.49 billion dollars on advertisements in 2014. Gardiner Harris states that in 2012 the government started a campaign to try to stop the addiction of tobacco and spent approximately $50 million

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    Smoking is a major cause of several deadly diseases and deaths worldwide. It is also the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Smoking is now considered deplorable due to the increasing understanding of its detrimental effects to our health especially in western countries (CDC, 2014). This essay will address the change in attitudes towards smokers in the US, Britain and Russia. In the past, Smoking played an integral role in our social lives. Smokers were highly respected; one

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