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Case Study on Tobacco Use

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a funding organization. The approach will be one that is historical and cross-cultural and will examine how and why policy regarding the use of tobacco is formulated and changes  over time in Britain, the United States and Canada. TOBACCO USE FROM A HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as the single most  external threat to the health of the general public. The conflict over smoking has become "perhaps the greatest morality play of late 20th-Century America" (Frankel 1997, B04). In  the 1950s the dangers of smoking were not yet known and so people tended to smoke more willingly. It was popular not only in the United States but in  Britain and Canada as well. The tobacco industries were touting the enjoyment of their product and even gave free cigarettes to film stars in order that they would be  seen smoking on film, thus ensuring that the majority of the public would also perceive it as a glamorous thing to do. HOW THE POLICY WILL AFFECT CONTEMPORARY POLICY  Proposed policies seek to limit the places people can smoke due to the extreme health risk involved. To find out the publics perception and difficulty in quitting smoking, surveys  will be conducted in three countries. In August, 1997, a state judge released decades of concealed tobacco-industry documents that implicated cigarette company lawyers talking about "suppressing scientific research, potentially destroying  documents, and misleading the public" about the health effects of smoking (Meier 54A; Frankel B04). Before that, it was discovered in a 1986 internal legal report produced by R.J.  Reynolds Tobacco Co., that industry lawyers had "thwarted" (Meier 54A) proper testing protocol to determine the safety of cigarettes ingredients (54A). Considering the billions and billions of dollars these