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This essay "Smoking in Care Setting for Older People: Legal and Ethical Issues" discusses the ethical dilemma of smoking among elderly people in a care setting that can be partially solved by legal regulations and internal regulations of the settings, on the example of the USA and UK.... Therefore, social and medical workers direct all their efforts on decreasing the level of smoking among elderly people (Gardner, 2002).... ome elderly people have a long-term 'habit' of smoking....
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It has been found that among all the substances that cause addiction, the most dangerous and harmful is tobacco.... According to a report of the Surgeon General (1989), the negative health consequences of addiction to tobacco through smoking and oral use has been revealed through number of medical and scientific researches (Johnson, D.... Hence, the only way to tackle the problem of tobacco dependence successfully is to prevent it at any cost, and not to fall in the trap of the ‘safety' of chewing tobacco and the ‘charm' of smoking tobacco....
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Research Paper
This research paper "The Importance of Smoking Cessation among the elderly" is a study of interviews of elderly persons regarding the stopping of smoking.... This section enumerates how the interviewees were chosen from among the population and how ethical and legal permission was obtained for the survey.... The methodology of the survey included the researchers interviewing 18 elderly people who were smokers and those who had been smokers previously....
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study was conducted by University College London, to determine the prevalence of smoking among Chinese secondary school students.... among those who have ever smoked, 13% reported to have first tried cigarette smoking before age 10 years, with female students more likely to have first tried than male students (15.... “According to the World Health Organization statistics, smoking claims 5.... Every eight seconds, someone dies from smoking....
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Furthermore, the prevalence of overall tobacco use among males is 48 percent while among females is 20 percent (GATS India, 2010).... The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS India,2010) is a mechanism that has been developed to track tobacco prevalence, exposure to second hand smoking, exposure to tobacco advertising /promotion, cessation, knowledge and attitudes; that are critical for tobacco control program, policies and evaluation.... million users of both smoking and smokeless tobacco (GATS India, 2010, p xxxv)....
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ccording to Pampel (11), the United States cigarettes manufacturers in nineteen ninety, did spend a sum of $4 million on advertising and Almost thirty six percent of smokers are foreseen of dying due to smoking.... Various documents in the tobacco industry, exposed in the lawsuits of tobacco, reveal that the company's manufacturing tobacco products have identified teenagers as their main market, conducted the habits used by the teenagers in smoking and created products or brands and developed marketing strategies aimed at the teenagers....
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The review "Heart Attacks in Elderly Population" focuses on the critical analysis of the study on heart attacks in the elderly population.... revention of heart attack in healthy persons: no tobacco and smoking, exercise at least 30 minutes a day, eating a healthy diet that avoids greasy, heavy, fat-laden stuff, and get regular screening tests, not forgetting to maintain optimum body weight....
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Alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking by pregnant women is an action that puts the fetus in great danger.... tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking have negative implication on the growth of the baby before and after birth.... smoking is an affiliate of drinking as a high percentage of pregnant women who smoke are likely to drink.... Tobacco is a highly addictive drug as most smokers find it hard to quit smoking unless they are medically rehabilitated....
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