{"id":36768,"date":"2018-11-10T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36768"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:45:25","slug":"dont-compare-air-pollution-to-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dont-compare-air-pollution-to-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t compare air pollution to smoking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t compare air pollution to smoking\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

News:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Anti-tobacco activists are expressing concern that comparing the ill-effects of air pollution to that of smoking will result in trivialising the catastrophic effects of smoking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Comparing air pollution to smoking is based on a formula proposed by a Berkeley Earth study<\/strong> that draws an equivalence between the hazards of the two.<\/li>\n
    2. It also promotes the theory that it is all right to smoke as the air that we breathe is equally harmful.<\/li>\n
    3. However, the author\u2019s metaphor is being misinterpreted and it is belittling something as serious as tobacco control,\u201d according to the activists.<\/li>\n
    4. Activists are also worried that the misinterpreted comparison promotes a philosophy that one might as well smoke because it\u2019s no worse than breathing polluted air.<\/li>\n
    5. The argument also weakens the resolve of the government, the civil society and public health activists in controlling the tobacco menace.<\/li>\n
    6. Comparison between Cigarette smoke and Air pollution:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n