HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Passive Smoking, Nicotine, Teen Mom
20 Nov 2018
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Forms of modern tobacco control: school education, psas, pressures to remove smoking from films, tv, warnings on packages, etc. Success of tobacco control: most successful public health endeavour in the past 20 years, health consequences known since 1950s and before, 1930s: nazi germany, 1953: readers digests cancer by the carton , 1963: surgeon general"s report. Fallout: 2000s: industry found guilty of massive conspiracy to commit fraud, suppressing/hiding/altering evidence that product is harmful, deliberant engined addiction by increasing nicotine content, misled public on safety of low tar and filtered cigs. Industry deemed likely to commit such offenses again and need to make public statements on the dangers of smoking. Insurty is not trusted: built on earlier class action lawsuits and cases wherein states successfully sued industry to recover costs of medicare and ban some marketing practises, cdn 1. 5 billion settlement. Stigmatization: anti-smoking stigma moved from something immoral to something unhealthy to a.
