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<font color="#FF6600">Project 18: Should the law on smoking change?</font><br>
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<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There
is a lot of concern about smoking and many professionals from scientists
to health workers say that it can seriously harm people's health.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Following
the concerns of the professionals and the public, the government in the
UK has banned most forms of tobacco advertising and has introduced the
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2003 but smoking is not illegal
and anyone at any age could smoke. These are some of the things that the
law says:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is
illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 16 </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is
illegal for young people under 16 years of age to buy cigarettes from
vending machines</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Notices
warning that it is illegal to sell tobacco to under16s must be displayed
wherever they are sold and on vending machines</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is
the shop keeper's legal responsibity to make sure that they don't sell
cigarettes to under 16s.</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is
illegal to smoke on public transports at any age</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tobacco
companies cannot advertise on the print media or billboards</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Cigarette
cannot be advertised on television</font></li>
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This project is about finding out the facts about tobacco and smoking
so that you can discuss what the rules and the law should be and why.
This project involves researching a lot of information. You need to have
access to the Internet and also contact different organisations (see project
19) which can provide useful statistics. </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">These are
some of the topics you could look into:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">When was
tobacco first introduced to Europe? </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The use
of tobacco in Britain</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The medicinal
and ceremonial use of tobacco amongst different cultures </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The first
arguments about the health effects of tobacco </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">What did
doctors and scientists think about the effects of smoking on the human
body? </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Why has
the government prohibited cigarette advertising in most places? </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Who smokes
(boys/girls/teenagers/older people)? And how much</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Illness
and smoking: cancer/respiratory diseases/ heart and circulation/sex
and reproduction/passive smoking </font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Nicotine
and addiction</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The tobacco
industry</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The spreading
of tobacco smoking in the developing world and its consequences</font></li>
<li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tobacco
and the environment</font></li>
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Now you have collected all this information what do you think are the
reasons for and against changing the law?</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#FF6600"><b>Resources<br>
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</b> <font size="2" color="#000000">Here are a selection of websites that
may help with your project. </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#FF6600"><font size="2" color="#000000">Please
remember that DrugScope/D-World cannot be held responsible for the content
of other sites.</font></font></font></p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4244233.stm" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Smoke-free
law 'would save lives'</b></font></a><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
BBC News story discussing the idea for an outright ban on public smoking.</font></p>
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