Please help. Homework questions.

Question

1) Tobacco use tends to be higher among the underprivileged, in turn they spend a larger proportion of their income on tobacco than wealthy households. What is the reason for this?

2) Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship can reduce tobacco consumption. Do you agree/disagree? What is the next step moving forward?

Answer 1

1.) in short, I would correlate this to the level of stress due to socioeconomic conditions.

2.) Agree, next step is continuing to raise awareness by public education in early developing years.

Answer 2

1) Tobacco use tends to be higher among the underprivileged, in turn they spend a larger proportion of their income on tobacco than wealthy households. What is the reason for this?

The CDC reports that "Tobacco companies often target their advertising campaigns toward low-income neighborhoods and communities." (https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/low-ses/index.htm)

2) Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship can reduce tobacco consumption. Do you agree/disagree? What is the next step moving forward?

The CDC reports that "Culturally appropriate anti-smoking health marketing strategies and mass media campaigns like CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers national tobacco education campaign, as well as CDC-recommended tobacco prevention and control programs and policies, can help reduce the burden of disease among people of low SES status." (https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/low-ses/index.htm)