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    Banning tobacco price promotions, smoking-related beliefs and behavior: Findings from the International Tobacco Control four-country cohort survey Abstract Purpose: We examined how prohibiting tobacco price promotion at the national level influenced smoking-related beliefs and behaviors. Method: We used data from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation project four-country cohort. Smokers and recent quitters at wave 8 (N = 4,114) were included in multivariate logistic regression models

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    cigarettes in any of their offices. Most governments have banned smoking in all public places. Based on personal experience, personality style and emotional concern, we find that some hold the notion that smoking in public places should be banned. Meanwhile, others want to be as free as possible and do as they please, as long as their actions do not violate the rights of others. From my point of view, it is more sensible to ban smoking in public places rather than allow second-hand smoke to continue

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    Millions of people are smokers in the United States. “In 2011, an estimated 19.0% (43.8) million United States adults were current cigarette smokers” (“Cigarette Smoking in the”). This number does not include all the underage smokers that are unaccounted. Cigarette smoking has very serious and fatal side effects. Some of these side effects include asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, COPD, and Buerger’s disease. Tobacco use is a preventable death sentence. Smokers are not only

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    Article Review The tittle: Awareness and Attitude on the Law Banning Smoking in Public Places in Osun State, Nigeria. Published in: Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2014, 12:6. The objective of this study was to assess people’s awareness and boldness towards law stopping smoking of tobacco in public facilities in Osun, Nigeria. Methodology: A cross-sectional study with sample size of 520. Ethical clearance was obtained from the “Osun State Hospital Ethics and Research Committee.” Informed consent

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    Smoking Bans in Public Areas Yield Positive Effects For All One of the major reasons for death and preventable diseases is tobacco use. Just in the United States of America, smoking has found to be the cause of “over 40,000 deaths due to heart disease and over 200,000 episodes of childhood asthma per year” (Naiman et al 1). Some of these cases could be specifically linked to secondhand smoke, “defined as an involuntary exposure to a combination of diluted cigarette side stream smoke and the exhaled

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    A lot of books that get banned are due to having real world events, and certain words that are censoring students from history, and reality. “Harper Lee’s book has been challenged by black parents who object to the use of the word “nigger”.” (Rohrer). Although the word is disrespectful to use, it’s a part of history that can’t be erased. “To Kill a Mockingbird” uses the word 58 times in the book, but without it, the book wouldn’t have an accurate representation of that time era. The fact that some

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    when it comes to the books they can read. In fact, many schools across America exercise the practice of banning books. Since 1982, libraries, parents, and schools have attempted to ban 11,300 novels, according to the American Library Association. The essentially innoxious books are challenged for an assortment of reasons, including use of malapropos language, graphic or explicit

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    shaped me to the person I am today. Today, I live in a small city that is known as the “Heart of the Harbor”, Wilmington. According to "Early Views of San Pedro and Wilmington", Phineas Banning procured the 640 acres of land that would get to be Wilmington. The 21-mile railroad was built in the late 1860’s by Banning and the new railroad drastically decreased the cost of transporting goods to and from San Pedro ("Early Views of San Pedro and Wilmington"). Without Banning’s vision and tenacity, the

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    Smoking should be banned in public places The government of the United States, should ban smoking in all public places because of the adverse effects of passive smoking on smokers, non-smokers and the environment. In the recent years, the population of people who smoke in the US has significantly increased. People still choose to smoke even when they have adequate knowledge of how unhealthy smoking can be. Smoking is a personal choice for any individual. Moreover, it is a highly addictive habit

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    the topic of smoking. Some argue that smoking has risen to the level of a public health crisis, and cite some very distributing statistics in order to support those claims. For example, the Centers for Disease Control (2015) estimates that 6 million Americans die each year from tobacco, and the direct medical costs associated with treating smokers tops 150 billion dollars annually. These facts have motivated many public policy makers to consider new ways to deter Americans from smoking, including heavily

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