Drug Use and Addictive Behavior Discussion 2022

Running Head: Healthcare 1
Drug Use and Addictive Behavior
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Running Head: Healthcare 2
WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO BAN TOBACCO ADVERTISING IN THE DEVELOPING
WORLD?
I. INTRODUCTION
a) Background information of tobacco adverts
b) Future expectations on the rate of tobacco consumption and its effects on the
population.
c) Policies made by most government to regulate tobacco advertisements in the past.
II. DISCUSSION
a) Does tobacco advertisements affect its rate of consumption?
b) Why tobacco is consumed more in developing nations than in developed nations,
yet people in developed nations have higher income but still consume less tobacco
- no frequent creation of awareness.
- Governments in developing nations are not strict enough on the policies they
have kept in place. They will only restrict advertisements on some media
networks and not all
c) Does the level of illiteracy affect the perception at which tobacco adverts are
viewed?
- low education levels over health effects of Tobacco
d) Why do people continue consuming tobacco even with the imposition of high
taxes most especially in developing countries, how does that affect their living
standards?
e) Why are rehabilitation centers failing tobacco smokers?
- Addiction
III. CONCLUSION
a) Raising tobacco prices in both developing and developed nations is more effective
on lowering the rate of tobacco consumption than banning and restricting tobacco
advertisements.
b) Banning and restricting tobacco advertisements is also an effective policy and its
implementation should still be upheld.

Running Head: Healthcare 3
INTRODUCTION
The most significant occasions in the past records of tobacco industry globally happened in the
year 1964. The (USSG) United States Surgeon General created an awareness on the potential and
critical health conditions caused by tobacco smoking, specifically on lung cancer. As noted by
Kalten ( 2015) this supported a ripple of synchronization and regulations in the evolved nations
as governments started the obstruction of tobacco advertisements and publications by placing
danger labels of smoking on their packages and by hiking their costs through increasing taxes. It
is now obvious that both active and passive smoking is a crucial factor causing premature deaths.
Most governments have acknowledged the need to sensitize the regulations of promoting and at
most banning it altogether.
It required that all nations that are ratifying to adopt comprehensive bans on tobacco
advertisements. This has increased the rate at which the developing nations are making efforts
grabbing chances to obstruct and restrict the promotion of smoking products (Bearman & Wright,
2011). It is expected that by the year 2030, tobacco will be one of the leading causes of premature
deaths globally, especially in developing countries. It is of great benefit and necessity to
comprehend which interventions are effective when lowering tobacco consumption. The most
powerful tool of fighting and controlling tobacco is at the domain of public health because it has
got economic intercessions that have proved to be effective in lowering its consumption.
These intercessions are somewhat related to the policies such as increasing the prices of
cigarettes, taxing heavily a larger set of restrictions that includes advertisement bans, restrictive
sales procedures, and many other policies are lately becoming more and more popular.
Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the suitableness of the principles to make sure that the most
suitable procedures are adopted to lower the rate of tobacco consumption in developing
countries. Using dynamic and static specifications of demand, Pennock (2017) demonstrated the
impact of tobacco advertisements ban across at least fifty-one countries and reviewed the
literature as discussed below.
DISCUSSION