Economic Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Based from the news article <Norfolk Pension Fund tobacco investment to continue> from BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-19717121
mention about how the use economic to support anti-smoking campaigns.

         Every business man’s target and first purpose is money, and most of them do not care about environment and bad effect will bring out to the other people in future. When they want to earn more and more money, they will not care bad way or good way to get the money. Tobacco is the one of example.

         According to the report in Cumbria, there are more than 1100 children aged between 10 and 14, 5% are regular smokers. And they find out most of the children are smoke under peer pressure. They smoke is because of the people around them also smoking. When they want to join them, mean they also need to smoke if not they will be kick out of the “circle”.

            In China, smoking is their daily habit, and there are at least 300 million smokers in China. According to the account report, there is about 40% of global production and consumption tobacco in China. We can see that China is the biggest producer and consumer in tobacco and for the people who smoke the cigarette become inelasticity, because the cigarette in China is quite cheap and they can produce they self. Cigarette can earn money also can kill people, 300 million smokers in China, and at least 1 million people death from smoking-related diseases for every year.

            We know that smoke is did not classification to any people, anyone can smoke, either children or old people. So this show the demand is big enough to let business man for earning money. But cigarette is not good in health and may be ban from government, so they paid the high tax to the government in every country.

They paid the tax have many advantage to the cigarette seller, first is to control the economics of the country. When they paid the high tax, they already hander the money flow of the country and the government also need their tax to maintain their own country, and also can let government not easily to say the cigarette cannot come in to their country or to stop the cigarette come in.

            Second is to make their unhealthy cigarette become legal, when the cigarette become legal, than they can sell it in any shop and making advertisement to let more people buy it. After that they no need to care too much, because they are selling cigarette, when a people start to smoke, he or she will hard to stop and they will not care about the price to buy the cigarette. Cigarette is same like drug, and just slightly better that drug only. This is a long run business, because when they start selling cigarette, it will not easily to stop and the longer period they sell the more money they earn and will making more problem to the country.

            However, the cigarettes become legal. But the tax is too high to some of the greedy seller so they try to escape the tax from government, and that become illegal cigarettes. Cigarette is bad but can earn more money and faster, so when the run from the government tax they sell the cigarette to the same market price, they earn more than the seller with paying tax. Not only illegal cigarette, there are also have illegal cigarette factory. In India, they hired the girls to help them make tobacco; they call them “tobacco girls”. They live in a poor place, so they can just hire them with low salary and the labor are not fixed in any age. They need to work between 10 to 14 hours a day and they must roll at least 1000 beedis each to earn a paltry sum of less than $2. The salary is paid by the middleman.

            

            The chart above show on year 2005, the smoker is lower than few years before, so we can do something to make the people who smoke become lower.

            The cigarette is become legal, than the only way to stop people to smoke is from the education and the mind of how the people they think about smoke. Now, there are starts to having many activities to stop cigarette. The people in Northern Ireland vote to ban the tobacco advertising and promotion in their country. In Australia, they planning to have the cigarette law are to make the package of the cigarette with no brand and write the word of bad effect after smoke on the package. There also have a activity in 2012 October in Isle, this is to let the smokers sigh up to quit smoking in 28 days, they also call this month is “Stoptober”, is more like “Stop Tobacco October”. In Swiss, they fully reject and ban the people smoking in public spaces; we can see how the Swiss people care about their health.

            The purpose of making less people to smoke is to let the demand go down (D1 to D2). When the demand goes down mean less people buy cigarette, than the producer will also decrease their number of product (S1 to S2). After that the equilibrium point will from point A more to Point B. When this graph achieve in every country, there will be less and less people smoke.

The most important is from education, we must let the children know how bad the cigarette is and teach them how to face with the peer pressure problem. When the demand become lower and lower, the tobacco seller will also hard to sell tobacco any more, than we will have a good and clean environment to live.