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Tobacco - Online Term Paper

Tobacco

Canada has one of the world's toughest antismoking campaign. They have
passed laws against advertising and have used virtually all of the
Presidents proposals against .
Now they are saying that if Clinton's proposals do become a law it
won't do much good.
By 1993 the tobacco taxes in Canada had a pack of cigarettes up to
$5.00 a pack . Thanks to these measures, Garfield Mahood, Executive
Director of the Toronto based Non-Smokers Rights Association., said, "
Canada has had world precedent-setting declines in teen smoking." Between
1979 and 1989, the number of teens aged 15 to 19 who smoked at least
occasionally was halved to 23%. In contrast U.S. efforts have been a ...

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a University of
Toronto survey found a third of Junior High School are puffing more.
Moreover the number of teens smoke occasionally jumped to 27.8% in 1994
from 22% in 1991.
Clinton's program includes Prohibition of sales to minors. Canada has
found such bans are useless because 59% of Ontario's smoking minors still
bought their smokes from a store. One of the bad things about prohibiting
tobacco advertising reduced marketing costs, causing tobacco industries to
earn "phenomenal profits". At Imperial Tobacco which controls 65% of the
Canadian market, operating profits have doubled since 1988.
No wonder Clinton's proposal probably won't work. Kids don't pay
attention to their health. They do pay attention to their wallet. That's
why the American Cancer Society and over 100 other health groups are
lobbying a $2.00 per-pack tax increase. This leads to Canada suggesting
Clinton's proposal could have room for ...

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Added: 7/23/2007 02:19:04 PM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
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