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BONAGUA CAPANANG EGUILLON GABIS Master subtitle style PUNONGBAYAN REYES SANTOS TADLE
Khatrina Marck Louise Frecilo Princess May Anjelica Michelle Ciara Grace Christian Emmanuel
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DEFINITION OF TERMS
TOBACCO
Plant grown commercially for its leaves and stems, which are rolled into cigars, shredded for use in cigarettes and pipes, processed for chewing, or ground into snuff, a fine powder that is inhaled through the.
SMOKING
Inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco.
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TOBACCO EXPERIENCE
R E L A X HOIN R S
P L E A S D U R
LICIOUS C T I N G
CIGARETTE
CRAVIN N G STICKT I S F A C HIN T I O N
ICOTINE
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Other issues that concerned the public are health problems, addiction and consumption of under-aged consumers. $ 157 billion was the estimated economic costs associated with smoking. -(Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2002) Despite of smokings bad effects, manufacturers continue to produce and sell the what-is-known-as deadly goods.
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16th century Smoking began in America and spread to Europe. 19th century Mass productions of cigarettes began. PHILIPPINES is known to be tobaccos 15th biggest consumer in the world. The largest consumer among the ASEAN. (WHO, 2002) 17 million adult Filipinos smoke (GATS, 2009) Filipino children as young as 5 years old are already starting to smoke (Dept. of Health Research)
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HAVE A LIGHT?
Given the facts, indeed, Philippines is under the smoking spell. WHAT MUST BE DONE?
The best thing to do is TO SHOW, not just TELL people that tobacco smoking is a wrong action, though it is an individual choice, yet society has the right to act on its own behalf.
Good or which should involve pleasure, happiness, and excellence which leads to harmony and creativity; whereas something is bad or wrong if it entails pain, unhappiness, and lack of excellence, which leads to disharmony and lack of creativity. 7/17/12
Tobacco smoking is a wrong action for even if it involves happiness-pleasure from its seemingly relaxing effects-it is just for a short period only, plus, not everything that brings someone pleasure is necessary good. REMEMBER: Something that is good must bring about a harmonious integration of as many human beings as possible. Everyone should perform that act or follow a moral rule that will bring about the greatest good (or happiness) for everyone concerned.
-Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mills Utilitarianism
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SUPPORT
First and foremost, the hazards of tobacco smoking and second-hand smoking is not new to our eyes and ears. Lung cancer Chronic Arthritis Emphysema Diseases of arteries and heart.
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Responsible for ten Filipinos who die every hour and the country loses of P500 billion annually from healthcare costs and productivity losses according to the Dept. of Health. Passive smokers are perhaps three times more likely to die of than they would otherwise.
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EFFORTS OF LAWMAKERS
Efforts to educate the public have concentrated on presenting negative images, regulating the advertising of cigarettes, limiting the public spaces in which smoking is permitted, and increasing the cost of cigarettes by taxation. Comprehensive Tobacco Regulation Act Republic Act 9211
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This just means that, once again, the pleasure and happiness brought by tobacco smoking is short term, for afterwards, the good that is within the cigarette is replaced by the bad. Lastly, it was cited in 2006 study of WHO, DOH, UP-Manila and Philippine College of Medical Researchers Foundation that the governments economic costs, including expenses for health care and costs of productivity losses, reached P461 billion.
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