Friday, September 14, 2012

Chapter 7 Question 2


Being the US Surgeon General, Dr. Novello decided to focus on AIDS, violence, alcohol, and tobacco use. Her goal was to reduce these health issues in our nation and especially in the younger population of teenagers and children. Dr. Novello had experienced the stages of cause and effect inductive reasoning and those stages brought her to place where she felt needed to focus her work. She was concerned with the Joe Camel ads for Camel cigarettes that she had encountered. This was in her mind, the cause for the issue. The effect was that a younger population was now starting to smoke. The ads now were the cause that was persuading younger people to start smoking because they included a “cool” Joe Camel figurehead in their advertisements. Having a identifying the cause is the first step to fixing this problem. Since Dr. Novello had pin pointed a possible cause as the ads, for the increase of young smokers, there was now a starting point in trying to fix the issue.

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