Argumentative essay example
The Sale of Tobacco Is Unethical
- Subject
- Business & Management
- Type
- Argumentative essay
- Citation style
- APA 7
- Length
- 4 pages
About this sample
The paper argues that selling tobacco is unethical because its impulse-driven marketing encourages purchases, and because secondhand smoke violates the fundamental human rights to life, health, and a clean environment. It opens by describing tobacco as an impulse good and sellers' placement tactics, then links passive smoking to rights frameworks. It then considers whether existing public smoking bans are sufficient to protect non-smokers.
- Tobacco as an impulse good
- Retail placement and impulse marketing
- Human rights to life, health, and a clean environment
- Passive smoking and public health harms
- Limits of smoking bans and legislation
How it opens
Tobacco is an impulse good. This means that a potential customer does not need to make a special trip to acquire the product but once it's in the store, they wouldn't hesitate to obtain it since it satisfies a strongly impulsive need (Levine,2000). Sellers take advantage of the customers strongly felt need by placing tobacco strategically close to the checkout counter. The fundamental human right to life, health and a clean and safe environment cuts across nations globally. The right to life is appreciated in UDHR article 3 and ICCPR article 6. The fundamental right to health is documented in ICESCR article 12 and the fundamental right to a safe and clean environment is recognized in CRC article14 (WHO, 2012). Fundamental human rights can either be positive or negative. Positive for instance the right to be liberated from other people's dealings that may consequently prejudice the health of others, and negative, that is a privilege to state provisions and financing for programmers that add to good quality health.
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