Community Strategic Plan Issue 2022

Running head: Community strategic plan
Community strategic plan
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COMMUNITY STRATEGIC PLAN1
Introduction
Community level strategic plan aims to throw light on a prevalent issue that affects
the public health and how with small measures it can be overcome. Tobacco use among
adults poses serious health effects among both youth and adults. Risk factors of tobacco
usage has both biological and social implication. Cardiovascular disease and risk of cancer
increases with over usage of tobacco. Tobacco usage starts from a young age and once the
habit starts it is difficult to get rid for the consumers. Therefore efficient planning strategies
are required to address the issue. Many get into this habit as a result of peer pressure as many
thinks smoking tobacco as a fashion. Degree of inhalation and duration of usage makes the
situation worse and there must be proper awareness on such issues.
Figure 1: Adverse effects of tobacco Source: ("Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking", 2017)

COMMUNITY STRATEGIC PLAN2
The issue is prevalent globally and the number of smokers is increasing day by day.
The number of smokers increased from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million active users in
2012. The increasing number is not a good sign for public health and more population has
been suffering from its serious effects (Hall et al, 2016). According to health surveys
conducted in United States, it was seen that 14 out of 100 adults are involved in active
smoking of tobacco. There has been little decrease in smokers in last five years but still major
of the population consumes tobacco. Little consumption may also pose risk factors for health
so it must be discouraged totally.
Figure: 2 Smoking prevalence Source: (Delaware, 2015)
With respect to the economic trends of US there is a huge amount of spending by
tobacco users (Hu, 2016). According to tobacco companies there is around $25 million spent
in one day in the United States and in around 9.36 billion was spent on tobacco production to
meet the sales. From June 2018 to July 2019 three top companies accounted for 98% of US
dollar sales of tobacco.