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The Smoking Dilemma: When is the Line Crossed?

Delve into the conflicts, pros, and cons of smoking. Explore how nicotine satisfaction competes with economic impacts, health risks, and societal influences. Is the cost to individuals and society worth the smoke-filled consequences in the long run?

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The Smoking Dilemma: When is the Line Crossed?

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  1. Aaron Lewis

  2. When is the line crossed? VS

  3. Smoking Conflicts Pros Cons • Nicotine gives feelings of satisfaction • Maintains economic niches • Kills millions of people • Cost money to the smoker • Cancer • Emphysema • Second hand smoke • Decrease in value of cars and homes • Average cost in 2009 $5 a pack

  4. Spending Billions • $9.94 billion spent in 2008 on advertising & promotion • $27 million spent in one day in 2008

  5. Advertising Ads like this one are part of a bigger anti- smoking campaign started by the CDCP

  6. Spending Billions • Cost U.S. $193 billion • $97 billion lost productivity • $96 billion health care expenditures • Second Hand Smoke costs U.S. $10 billion in • Health care expenditures • Sickness • Mortality

  7. Secondhand Smoke Over 38,000 deaths caused by SHS each year.

  8. Why is it acceptable to smoke • Social thing to do • Influences by the media • President Obama • Marilyn Monroe • Becomes a trend • People make money from it!!!!

  9. Famous Influences

  10. But its legal now • Money, money, money! • States get certain amount of money per year for tobacco prevention • Only use about 2% of money • U.S. made over $17 million in tax revenue in 2010! • Could the U.S. be better spending money that fuels the tobacco industry? • Healthcare? • Immigration enforcement? • Defense spending?

  11. Not just a local issue

  12. Was it worth it?

  13. Review Cost of smoking out weighs the money it brings in Lives of people are more valuable than money Long term effects of smoking are devastating but will always be part of world culture.

  14. Works Cited

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