MWH2 Project by Jae Hun Kim

Modern World History Project: Historical Context and Present Attitudes

kjae — 2014-11-29 17:41:11 UTC

Topic: Smoking in Public

Introduction

kjae — 2014-11-29 17:59:52 UTC

Smoking was not a big issue in our world in the past and many people preferred smoking when they rest. However, because most of people know the seriousness of smoking and there were many issues related to the harmful effects of smoking, many countries are banning smoking in public and smoking itself recently.

Changed attitude from the past

kjae — 2014-12-01 21:30:57 UTC

Generally, the attitude of many countries around the world has changed a lot compared to the past; they mostly do not like people to smoke in public basically because their smoking affects other innocent people . Countries are now banning smoking in public in their country and give penalties to people who breaks it. In UK, smoking in public was banned from 2007 in July, and in America states are getting to ban smoking as time passes starting from California in 1995

Advocacy groups standing against smokers

kjae — 2014-12-01 21:37:34 UTC

People standing against smoking has done activities that are insisting not only smoking in public but also smoking itself naming several reasons such as it causes serious health problems, it might affect unwanted non-smokers to smoke just because they were around smokers. However, the protest was not always easy. People who smoke and the cigarette companies have been standing against advocacy groups and they insist that they still like to smoke even if they know how bad the smoking is. Also, like the reason why people liked smoking in the first time, they wanted cigarettes when they wanted to rest from work or any other things.

Second-hand smokers

kjae — 2014-12-01 21:44:26 UTC

Second-hand smokers are people who does not smoke but they inhale smokes came from smokers' cigarettes. We can not put second-hand smokers in the middle of smokers and non-smokers because they mostly do not want to smoke but they unwantedly breathe smoke because of the people who smoke in public. Examples of second-hand smokers are family members of smokers and people used to be with smokers in public places. They don't like smoking because, according to the research from National Cancer Institute, second-handed smoking causes cancers and other related diseases as well as smoking itself.

Countries have not banned smoking

kjae — 2014-12-02 03:55:28 UTC

There are several countries such as Russia, South America, and some states in US that still have not banned smoking in public are having conflict with people who does not want to smoke by second hand, and many advocacy groups against smoking are created in these countries

Social behavior in the time when smoking started

kjae — 2014-12-02 04:02:01 UTC

In America, the era was called as Eisenhower’s era. People were very busy in that time and even young people started to work from 1950s. Multimedia and machines such as automobiles were supplied to citizens; by the 1960s, more than 90 percent of American households owned at least one television.

Why was smoking acceptable in the past?

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:01:37 UTC

Reasons why smoking was acceptable are that people considered smoking as an epitome of gentleness when they first tried to smoke and people in the time needed something to rest their body.

Why was smoking acceptable in the past?

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:04:25 UTC

Most people considered smoking as an epitome of gentleness and people in the time needed something that makes them rest because they were so busy for working to earn money. However, the foremost important reason why smoking was acceptable was that, I think, people and the governments of countries did not know how smoking affects seriously bad to people's body.

section 1

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:17:04 UTC

Section 2

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Section 3

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:17:20 UTC

Prediction about the future of the issue

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:29:07 UTC

I think the regulation will be more strict by the time passes and almost all countries will ban smoking. but the smoking itself will not disappear and the rule that bans smoking might get weaker in our world because there are many people having trouble with giving up smoking and the fact that people who smoke mostly like smoking till now even if they know how bad the smoking is, and they want cigarettes when they want to rest .

Universally spread smoking

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:49:12 UTC

Smoking was widely acceptable around the world, and most of the countries did not regulate smoking in public. Around half of industrialized countries’ citizens smoked including America and in UK, almost 80% of people were hooked into smoking.

How did it end

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:52:38 UTC

The conflict between smokers and non-smokers ended with non-smokers' victory. Most countries started to regulate smoking in public and gave penalties to the people who did not follow the rule. Still there are several countries have not banned smoking in public, finally smoking is banned in public area in most countries. People around the world became to recognize the seriousness of smoking and many people gave up smoking thanks to the activities of advocacy groups

Works Cited

kjae — 2014-12-02 20:58:30 UTC

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National Cancer Institude. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Dec. 2014. <http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS>.

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