With the development of the global trade, tobacco moved along the webs of the commence and finally reached its first destination—Europe, and gradually changed the whole European society. Fernando Ortiz called this process transculturation. Transculturation is “A process by which habits and things move from one culture to another so thoroughly that they become part of it and in turn change the culture into which they have moved” (Timothy Brook, p.126). Hence, a great number of people in Europe began to smoke, it giving rise to the increasing demand of tobacco. However, China nor Europe was the foremost smoking country in the seventeenth century.
In the years of the 1980’s an estimated 89.9 million which is 50% of U.S adults were ever smokers and 45.8% were current smokers. The amount of youth smokers decreased slightly from 1980 through 1984 and then increased through 1989, the largest annual increase occurred in 1988. The percent of teens that smoked
During 1700’s the European demand for tobacco increased. When tobacco became higher in demand it cause the demand for
Tobacco usage changed the world in social, economic, and more recently, political ways. The spread of tobacco became a sort of overnight success as it started out as a plant for medicinal purposes, but changed as it spread to Europe and became popular due to its ritual usage and its high market value, but as history ran its course,
Chapter Analysis The Cigarette (pages 111-117) Emmy Mendez, Cole Meeden, Ian Masui, Will Lalande In the chapter The Cigarette by Marjane Satrapi, there are many literary elements that the author uses to intrigue the readers such as graphic weight, speech bubbles and the use of the fore, middle and background. The author uses these elements to expedite a greater understanding and to capitalize upon certain panels.
"Smoking is the leading cause of statistics"—Fletcher Knebel In the novel "The Outsiders," smoking cigarettes is a social issue among greasers, still relevant to teens today. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about the two contrasting social classes—the Greasers, who are poorer and less fortunate, and the Socs, who are rich and privileged. A wide range of social issues are covered in this book, including juvenile criminality, gang violence, and smoking, all of which are important issues in today's society. The greasers Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, and Darry are the main characters in this book.
The study was conducted in Oxford, England over the course of 20 years, ending in the year 1969. In this period of time, the pair examined 34,440 men, their smoking habits, and later the
More Teens are Saying 'No' to Smoking In the 1990's, smoking was a very popular habit. This habit, according to the CDC, kept increasing each year in the 1990's. In 1997, 36.4 percent of high school students reported that they had smoked within the last month. This number was large, but was also far less than the governments first study which was in 1991.
The lowest death rate from tobacco-related deaths in all of Europe is Sweden which has only five percent of the population smoking tobacco compared to the US at fifteen percent and the second-best rate in Europe (Denmark) at fifteen percent. In Sweden, they have the lowest death rate from tobacco in the world. This is because the Swedish government meets people at their level. Not trying to get them to quit cold turkey. “Harm reduction is a controversial approach to improving public health in many Western countries because governing bodies and medical organizations feel obligated to advocate for nothing less than total cessation.”
Take drinking and smoking as the examples. According to the Centre for Health Protection (2014), there are 5.7% male interviewees consume a drink containing alcohol daily, while there are only 1.2% female interviewees drink every day. Besides, 21.8% male drink at least once a week, while only 6.5% female do that (Centre for Health Protection, 2014). Apart from consuming alcohol, smoking also brings negative impacts to health. The survey conducted by the Centre for Health Protection (2014) pointed out that there are 17.5% of male daily smokers while there are 3.2% of female daily smokers.
In Kenya, it is estimated that one of every five teenagers smoke. It has also been established that that most people start smoking at the age between 12 and 14, in addition to the fact that 1,200 tobacco smokers die every from smoking (Eaton, 2003). This translates to about 1,4389,00 deaths every year. This is a great number of preventable deaths every year. Despite being of great economic importance, tobacco has brought about much more harm than good.
Adult women under the age of 65 in the USA report more doctor visits than men, with the gender gap broadest among people aged 18-44. This is because of medical care associated with reproduction (NCHS 2006). Moreover, men drink alcohol more, and more often, than women and are more than twice as likely to die from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (Miniño et al 2006). Possibly most importantly, more men smoke cigarettes than women, even though this difference is basically non-existent at younger ages. Smoking is particularly significant in this case because approximations suggest that increasing rates of smoking among men, relative to women, accounted for 75% of the increase in the gender gap in mortality between 1910 and 1962 (Retherford 1975).Current approximations suggest that smoking accounts for 25% of the overall sex mortality difference, and much more when cancer and respiratory disease mortality are separately considered (Rogers & Hummer
Smoking has been a long time habit round the world. However, in the past, smoking cigarette was very popular and known to be a cool recreational drug, and was widely accepted by the community across the world. Today smoking has been less widely accepted and more restricted because of the many health risks that are linked to smoking cigarette. These days, people are well educated and more knowledgeable about the health risks of smoking.
Many reports have been issued based on the evidence regarding the devastating health affecs of smoking and the expose of second hand smoke. Unfortunatly, cigarette smoking has reportedly caused about 480,000 deaths anually in the United States with an account of 41,000 deaths due to second hand smoking. It is indicated that America has the greatest heath issues from smoking. Neverless, it has been declining due to the rise on taxes and the promotions to cut down tabacco use advetisement. Smoking can be very addictive but there are many ways to help stop that I’ll get to soon.
Secondly smoking approximately result in 3,000 lung cancer deaths of non-smokers which is given off by the end of the burning cigarette and by the smokers exhalation. REASONS OF SMOKING 1) Youngsters try to look “cool” 2) Smoking acts as a stress reliever. 3) To control their weight. 4) Addiction 5) Peer pressure 6) Experimentation/ Adventure 7) Marketing of tobacco companies 8) Social Integration 9) To think Properly 10) Addiction SMOKING KILLS
