I have to critique this editorial for school tomorrow can any one help me critique?Starting in 2012, cigarette packages and advertisements will have to carry new warning labels that pound home the message that smoking sickens and kills. The message isn't new, but it will be presented in a bigger, starker format — including images of tobacco's devastating effects — that should be harder to ignore than the tiny, text-only warning labels that have lost their punch.
The current labels, tucked away on the side of packages or the corner of advertisements, have not been changed in a quarter-century. And smoking rates, which had been dropping for decades, have flattened out in recent years. One in five adults and high school students are smokers.
A 2009 law gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco. It requires that the new warnings must cover the top half of both the front and the back of cigarette packs and 20 percent of cigarette advertisements. Manufacturers will also be required to use F.D.A.-approved images.
The agency recently unveiled 36 possible images, from which it will choose nine. None are quite as ghastly as those used abroad, but they are powerful, including a sickly man exhaling smoke through a breathing hole in his neck, a mother blowing smoke onto her baby, a corpse with a toe tag, a diseased lung.
The Obama administration's new tobacco control strategy also includes a national media campaign, expanded access to smoking cessation programs, insurance coverage through Medicare and Medicaid to pay the cost, grants to states and communities to pay for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, and increased research to define what works best. The tobacco industry is still spending billions to promote its products. Every weapon should be used to reduce the carnage.
Captain Oblivious
the author failed to realize that his/her mom smokes and his/her opinion on this article changes nothing but makes him/her look retarded
Orignal From: I have to critique this editorial for school tomorrow can any one help me critique?
No comments:
Post a Comment