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eau claire, wi, United States

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The effects of smoking tobacco vary due to personal preferences and the indirect social evils they cause. It is a known fact that nicotine is an extremely addictive substance; its effects on cognition are not as strong as the ones of cocaine, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, etc. As tobacco is a legal substance, there is no black market with higher dangers and unaffordable prices for most of the customers.

Though the majority of tobacco smokers are aware about the risks of smoking, they can’t make efforts and quit the bad habit. Everyone has own causes for smoking.  There are certain advantages of smoking as the smokers see them:

•Many smokers are convinced that they feel a very physically powerful bonding with other smokers.
•Smokers take pleasure in a sense of satisfaction by smoking.
•Smoking cigarettes give smokers the sentiment of producing a ritual.
•Nicotine provides a feeling of enjoyment to the smokers.
•Watching the smoke whirl and the cigarette burn is an amusing for most of the smokers.
But the cons of smoking cigarette are so many, as given below:
•Cigarette smoke foliage an after smell on everything: your clothes, car and home.
•You may not be capable to take breaths appropriately.
•You may have an irritating cough all day and night.
•You may undergo from harsh headaches, and infrequent migraines.
•You may experience dizzy after smoking cigarettes too quick or after having too many of them.
•You may have yellow skin, tooth and fingernails.
•You may have lot of phlegm, which may force you to apparent your voice incessantly and May even, make you lose your voice mid-sentence.
•You may experience from increased speed of hypertension.
•You may have a feeling of insufficiency and material dependence.
•You may undergo from nausea after too much of smoking.
•You may suffer nervousness and no recreation throughout the day.
•You may experience imperfect incentive and energy to do anything.
•The sense of smell and taste may reduce.
•You may by chance burn holes in your clothes or your upholstery.
•You are wasting your hard earned money and debasement your physical condition as well.
•You may also undergo from lingering colds and bronchitis.
Certainly, the cons outnumber the pros and provide you reason sufficient to give up this bad habit.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

2nd web component

http://www.tobaccofree.org/clips/VideoJoeChemo.htm

Smoking is thought to be cool
The video shows Joe Camel's life all the way to his death
In one of the pictures Joe is at the bar, some of the camels are smoking and some are not smoking. The ones that are not smoking think its cool to hang out with people that smoke. He has a saxophone so people think its cool to smoke cigarettes because everyone else are smoking.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

1st web component

The Tobacco Conspiracy









More than three years of investigating all over the world has allowed Nadia Collot to decipher the attitudes of an industry that, in spite of many prevention campaigns still expands its power at the cost of public health. Three aspects of industry behavior are studied:

1. Scientific subversion: proof of the manipulation of scientific evidence and buying out of scientists to maintain controversy over the health issues related to smoking, but even more so today, related to environmental tobacco smoke.

2. Ideological subversion: whether it be through clever and disguised product placements on screen or TV, creating its own biased health messages, implementing subtle and ingenious marketing tactics or using political lobbying manoeuvres, the tobacco industry has gone to unbelievable extents to do what it says it never will.

3. Economic strategies: to develop as fast as possible, to infiltrate closed-market countries, to better reach the young and the poor, smuggling is one of the ways the industry has chosen to organize its international growth.