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Smoking Cigarettes: A Demographic Study

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Minnesota smokers' perceived helpfulness of 2009 federal tobacco tax increase in assisting smoking cessation:

-The cost of cigarettes has been often used as a factor to quit smoking in many communities throughout America. Many believe that an increase in taxation of cigarettes will be able to help many to consider and even quit smoking. This study looks into how a new tax on cigarettes impacts the overall view of smoking and if this view can cause significant change on smoking behavior. The study was performed with the use of smoking participants which totaled 727. They were asked whether an increase in taxes would lead to them thinking about quitting, cutting down on their intake of cigarettes or actually making an attempt to quit. Their …show more content…

More and more individuals are using these non-conventional items, and this can lead to the use of conventional tobacco products such as cigarettes. The attitude, use and overall awareness of these products was tested in this study. A survey known as the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) was used in order to achieve this. There were a total of 24,658 participants. 11,667 were in middle school, while 12,899 were in high school. It was found that 17.2% of middle school students and 44.7% of high school students reported using non-conventional products at least once in their lives. Awareness of these products for middle school students was 55.5% and 71.6% for high school students. The highest used product in this population was hookah. This high awareness and use among students needs to be curbed in the future. The continued use of non-conventional products may lead many to begin to use other tobacco products such as cigarettes that can greatly damage their overall health (Baoguang et al. …show more content…

health community to try to reduce tobacco use throughout the nation. This study looked into the overall effectiveness of these campaigns on tobacco rates throughout the country. The study looked into different states with varying mass media campaigns. They looked into states with an established campaign, a new campaign, or no campaign at all. This study looked at tobacco beliefs and behaviors across three different time periods. The 1st time period was from November 1999 to January 2000, this marked the period before the mass media campaign of the national truth was implemented. The second period was from autumn 2000 to spring 2001. The third period was from spring 2002 to autumn 2002. This was performed through telephone surveys across different states. The results showed a significant difference between states with campaigns, whether they be new or established, and states without campaigns. It showed that states with campaigns reported much lower rates of tobacco use compared to those that did not have campaigns (Hersey

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An overall goal of Healthy People is to enhance the health of all population, predicted reduction for lung cancer from 2007 to 2020 is 10% (Cuyahoga County Board of Health, 2016). According to Center for Disease and Prevention (CDC) (2016), the Healthy People 2020 focuses on three main points when it comes to tobacco use. The first main area that Healthy People 2020 is focusing on when it comes to tobacco use is implementing policies to decrease the tobacco use, especially in younger generations (CDC, 2016). The second area of focus is on health system changes by increasing accessibility, affordability to smoking cessation treatments and resources (CDC, 2016). The third focus is on implementing policies to make tobacco less affordable, to limit publicizing, and to inhibit sales to underage population (CDC,

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