Public Policy and the Cessation of Smoking

Running head : SMOKING CESSATION COVERAGE

Smoking Cessation Coverage

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Abstract

Smoking cessation refers to the attempt to either stop smoking or to quit smoking . There are so many people who are struggling to stop smoking but only very few manage to control it . Some people who try to quit smoking only stop for a while and they end up going back to it something that can easily qualify them to become chain smokers

There care efforts that have been put forward to help those who are seriously

in need of quitting smoking . This help comes in form of medical or pharmacological therapy , reminder systems provided for the smokers , therapies that help in cessation of smoking and counseling systems from the experts are provided ( HYPERLINK "http /www .cdc .gov /tobacco /statesystem www .cdc .gov /tobacco /statesystem , 2006

There are also methodologies employed by the government that boosts the effort of reduction in the smoking . These methodologies aim at discouraging the smokers by either making it difficult for them to afford the product for example by increasing the price , the restriction of smoking in public areas , the increase of the anti-smoking advertisements and the authorization strategy for the warning labels

However , there are the issues that arise as a result of the laws that approve the increase in taxation . The success of the law on the increase of taxation on cigarettes relies heavily on the political will the level of addiction that an individual has reached and the age , as it is said that the youth are more sensitive to price than the elderly

This deals with the Senate Bill no . 407 enacted in the 2003 legislative session . The bill advocated for the increase in taxation on tobacco products which was aimed at the decreasing their demand

Introduction

It is one thing to die a normal death and another thing to die from something that is self-inflicted . That is what happens to the person who smokes . A person who smokes kills himself slowly and without really realizing that he or she is killing him /herself with the smoke from the cigarettes . Cigarette smoke , once it goes to the lungs , it burns it up and makes it susceptible to diseases . Apart from that , there are also cases like the distortion of the taste buds such that the taste of a smoking person is not effective , the smell senses are poor , chances of this person getting heart diseases , stroke , infection of the respiratory tracts and others are raised and as such makes a person more exposed to diseases and death earlier than a normal person

It has become the concern of the world , that smoking alone kills more people than any war , any disease or even natural death . The Senator of New York in the United States F . R Kennedy acknowledged this when he said that cigarettes killed more Americans each than they have ever been killed in any war or road traffic accidents . He said that the number of Americans...