Global Health and Sustainability: The Impact of Tobacco Consumption

GLOBAL HEALTH AND
SUSTAINABILITY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Tobacco consumption is predominately the case where individuals consume excess
amount of tobacco above from permissible level and thus encounter various health related
diseases. The main purpose of this report is to study the effect of tobacco across the entire world
and thus establish various measures for mitigating its effect and making people aware of its
harmful effects on health.
This report gives a brief about Background information of issue, Current status of the
issue, Key considerations and the future preventive measures.
MAIN BODY
Background information of issue
The emergence of tobacco occurred years back when individuals were not aware of its
diseases and the significance and is prevailing till now across the entire world. Tobacco basically
has been one of the inevitable factor which is growing within Americans and other individuals
from around 8000 years. It was first discovered by the European who also discovered smoking
was Christopher Columbus. In the year 1915, tobacco was the first to be cultivated within
Europe. By the end of the year 1600, the use of tobacco spreads across the whole Europe as well
as England and thus was used as the important monetary standard and a practice which
contributed throughout entire century. Towards the end of the year 1700, smoking became
widespread and the industry of tobacco developed (Frazer and et.al., 2016).
In Germany some of the anti-smoking groups which were associated with different anti-
liquor groups initially published the advocacy against high consumption of tobacco within
Journal Der Tabakgegner in the year 1912 as well as 1932. In 1929, Fritz Lickint of Dresden
published the paper that includes statistical evidence of the lung-cancer and tobacco link. This
was considered as against the social attitudes of wide range of people and thus they protested
against tobacco. In the year 1602, an anonymous author published the essay whose title was
Work of Chimney Sweepers and this stated that the illness which is generally seen within
chimney sweepers were basically caused through soot as well as tobacco might have the similar
effect. The initial instance of the smoking which was reported was associated to the ill health. In
the year, 1795, Sammuel Thomas in Germany estimated that the main cause of tobacco was high
amount of the consumption of nicotine as well as excessive smoking and this is might affect the
individuals in future also (Gao and et.al., 2018). During the year of 1920s, the initial medical

reports which were linked to smoking as well as link cancer appeared and most of the newspaper
editors usually refused to report the findings because they did not want to stop and offend the
tobacco industry which gives them a high coverage as well as money. The series of medical
reports which were published in year 1950s as well as 1960s confirmed that the tobacco and
smoking causes a heavy range of some serious diseases.
As the main cause of tobacco which was reported was the high consumption of cigarettes
thus people wanted more and more cigarettes or some other material related to this. Thus, in
view of this, a high number of cigarette making equipment and machines were established in the
year of 1880s and the late half of 1890s. The first machine which was developed for the
production of cigarettes produced around 200 cigarettes every single minute. At that time due to
low value of money, the cheap and inexpensive manufacturing as well as utilization of cigarettes
enabled the tobacco organizations to extend and expand their position in market and thus make
the people tobacco-oriented during that period (Siddiqi and et.al., 2015).
The prevalence and the development of tobacco as well as cigarette smoking continued
its growth in early 20th century due to the establishment and development of large amount of
tobacco producing firms as well as firms promoting it on large platform. The ability as well as
power of the tobacco industries suddenly took a drastic turn and smoking eventually increased
during the period of world wars. This eventually raised the wealth of major political parties who
were immensely dealing in tobacco. The expansion of tobacco and smoking during world wars
increased because of the policy for offering free cigarettes to some allied troops in form of
morale boosting agent.
Later in twentieth century, the trend of tobacco and smoking declined and thus became
less popular because of dramatic enhancement within the knowledge of people regarding health
effects of passive as well as active smoking. People during the same period became highly aware
of the effect of tobacco industry for misleading the health effects of public about smoking and
tobacco consumption. People began to realize that the tobacco industries are manipulating the
public policies for their own good and for short-term interest of companies (Lucchiari and
et.al.,2016).
In view of this, the first and foremost successful lawsuit and rule against tobacco industry
over illness related to smoking happened during later part of 20th century. Thus, in the late 20th
century, people became more aware of the consumption of tobacco as well as smoking and also