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Smoking Policy

Submitted by bellove2007 on May 10, 2007

Category: Social Issues
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Smoking is the act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning plant material. A variety of plant materials are smoked, including marijuana and hashish, but the act is most commonly associated with tobacco as smoked in a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Tobacco contains nicotine, which is addictive and can have both stimulating and tranquilizing effects. The smoking of tobacco, long practiced by American Indians, was introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus and other explorers. Smoking soon spread to other areas and today is widely practiced around the world despite medical, social, and religious arguments against it. My focus will be on the Massachusetts Ban on Smoking Chapter 270: Section 22. Smoking in public places. This paper will then link the American Lung Association and their participation in the fight against smoking.

The dawn of the 20th century was the golden age of the cigarette, tobacco products were cigars, pipe tobacco, and chewing tobacco. The mass production of cigarettes was beginning to increase dramatically. The evolution of tobacco smoking from ancient times to the modern industrial age was used worldwide and on a large scale. Tobacco products were suspected of producing some adverse health effects, yet tobacco was also considered to have medicinal properties . Many scholars and health professionals of the day advocated tobacco's use for such effects as improved concentration and performance, relief of boredom, and enhanced mood.
The success of the cigarette was due not only to the business strategies of the large firms but also to the rapid adoption by urban male youths of the relatively inexpensive and easy-to-smoke lighter flue-cured Virginia tobacco. In particular, this product became a favorite of teenage boys that led to public outcries, to the revival of anti-tobacco movements in France, Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States to the eventual passing, in the 1890s and 1900s, of legislation across...

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