the same even the appearance and the way of thinking. Different people have different point of views. Some people are utilitarian‚ some are Kantian Deontologist‚ and some are Virtuous people. From my perspective‚ I am the kind of person who cannot decide which one best describes my thinking. Sometimes I could feel that I am a utilitarian‚ and sometime I can be all of them. Therefore‚ being utilitarian means that good or bad depends on the result of the action. On the one hand‚ being Kantian Deontologist
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Smoking brings with it much harm‚ regardless whether it is with respect to health‚ finance‚ environmental or social issues. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) estimates that tobacco kills one person every 10 seconds (WHO‚ 2005). Smoking causes cancer‚ and is a major risk for illnesses such as coronary heart disease‚ stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. These account for close to two-thirds of all deaths in Singapore in the year 2000 (Health Promotion Board (“HPB”)‚ n.d.). Tobacco is the
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Angie Funes Prof. Cathy Cripps English 97 May 6‚ 2013 Smoking cigarettes should be illegal For a long time people have different concepts and point of view about smoking. Nowadays a lot of people think that smoking is good and helps them‚ but others think that should be banned. “The Believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.” (Ralph Waldo). The question is what is in a cigarette? A cigarette is made of a classic white paper‚ and when it burns it releases
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Smoking has always been a topic on everyone’s lips‚ is it the new age killer or is it just coincidental that most cancer and heart disease victims are smokers? The articles that this essay is based on refer to issues such as "surgery being banned on so called ’fat’ people and alcoholics" and "transplants useless as they don’t listen to doctors anyway" It seems that doctors and surgeons don’t want to or won’t operate on patients who haven’t helped themselves to begin with. They say that the non-smoker
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Smoking should not be permitted on college campuses In contemporary world‚ the human society is progressing rapidly on various fronts. Yet at the same time‚ many problems have arisen‚ one of which is whether students can smoke on campus. This issue has drawn widespread attention. Some people assert that smoking is individual right so that they can smoke on campus while many others argue that smoking on campus is not only related to their own health issue but also influence other non-smokers
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Economic Analysis For Business Decisions Case Study On: “Ban on Public Smoking vs. Imposition of Tax on Tobacco” [pic] CONTENTS |No |Topic |Page No. | |1 |Executive Summary |3 | |2 |Problem Line
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communities and individuals On that basis we would suggest that the argument is already made since there is little doubt that smoking - both active and passive - will shorten life and cause disease. The evidence to support this statement comes from papers such as that by Prescott ( et al. 1998) who carried out a huge study looking into the effects of primary smoking and the risk of myocardial ischaemia in the general population. The results of the study were absolutely unequivocal with a finding
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inequalities in adolescent smoking behaviour and neighbourhood access to tobacco products. A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geography at University of Canterbury by Christopher John Bowie 2011 1 Abstract Youth smoking is an important aspect of tobacco research as most adult smokers first experiment with and initiate tobacco use during their adolescence. Policy makers and researchers have given youth smoking issues a significant
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The issue that is being explored in this article is Chrissie Swan got caught smoking whilst being pregnant. The text type of this article is an opinion piece because the author is expressing her views on this is wrong to do because it can cause harm to the unborn baby. The tone and style of this piece is very strong in say no you should not do this. The headline of this piece is “Pregnant women who smoke are easy targets fro the morality police.” The author is Anne Davis from the age newspaper‚ and
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Suppose you are watching television‚ a commercial comes on and portrays a man with a whole in his throat‚ with a breathing mechanism keeping him alive and a voice box speaking for him. He says that smoking cigarettes were the cause of his cancer‚ which then he needed this surgery to stay alive. After watching this graphic commercial‚ would you be less likely to smoke cigarettes? That’s the argument I am critically evaluating throughout this paper. This concept that I just exposed is referred to
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