Question

Effects, Politics, and Regulatory Control of Tobacco Use

Tobacco use is the primary cause of mortality in the United States today. Tobacco use is responsible for cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, and heart disease and has caused the deaths of nearly half a million people per year. Tobacco control, prevention, and treatment are compelling and urgent public health issues. The development of tobacco control laws have been passed by a number of states.

Write a comprehensive overview of the health effects, politics, and regulatory control of tobacco use control efforts. Your paper should be based on the following points:

What are the factors (biological, environmental, economic, and political) that contribute to tobacco addiction? What are the medical consequences (morbidity and mortality) for tobacco users?

What is the public health impact (epidemiological and economic) of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure?

How do tobacco control regulations relate to positive and normative economics?

How do tobacco control regulations impact individual health care

What is the public health policy regarding tobacco control? What is the role of the state and Federal Government in policy making?

What is the history of regulatory tobacco control? What is the current state of tobacco control in the United States (states that have passed tobacco control regulations)?

What is the evidence that tobacco control is effective?

Based on your understanding, create a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document that includes the answers to the above questions. You need a minimum of five scholarly sources that should be in APA format for both in-text citations and citations on the reference page.

This assignment requires a title page, an abstract, an introduction, a body, a conclusion, and a reference page.

Answer 1

Tobacco and economic arguments:

“Health and economic arguments are the reason for controlling tobacco, but economic arguments are raised as an obstacle to control policies”

The economics of tobacco and tobacco control, collaboration between the world health organization and the national cancer institute (United Nations), is an outcome of team work among international authors and reviews from across academia, international organizations and Government.

The economics of tobacco and tobacco control / highlights progress in number of areas. Most importantly, the WHO frame work convention on Tobacco control (WHO FCTC) has entered into the force in 2005

The tobacco industry continues to work to promote its deadly product, and tobacco industry interference in advancing public health policies is a grim reminder of reality of many countries. The industry continues to devote substantial resources and efforts to employing a range of tactics intended to interfere with implementation of provisions of WHO FCTC. In particular, they continue to promote misleading economic arguments against tobacco control, such as the long peddled argument that increasing taxation on tobacco products will lead to increased illicit trade and lost revenues. More broadly litigation or the threat of litigation , sometimes government is giving permission to new tobacco company products one side government is trying expenses the money to tobacco controlling and one side giving permission or allowing companies to sale tobacco and collecting high tax from those companies, first government need to take initiative on this issue stop tobacco production and new company products, still long time debate is going on this issue.