Research

http://cdrwww.who.int/fctc/guidelines/ArtElevenHammondOne.pdf
- this shows the effectiveness of smoking labels on tobacco packages

http://www.who.int/fctc/guidelines/ArtElevenHammondTwo.pdf 
-specific survey

Second draft

 Second draft : To make smokers quit smoking,  it is better to design tobacco package with warning labels of smoking than increasing its price.

  Nowadays, to quit smoking is emphasized in the global society, and much governments are trying to decrease smoking rate in many ways.  In response to that stream, Korean government determined to enact the law about increasing tobacco price. However, it is restricted to the people who go through economic hardship. Also, it will be not possible to eliminate main motives of smoking. Then, imagine - you are one of the smokers, you buy a pack of cigarettes, and see a gruesome or incendiary images on its package.  Still, do people want to smoke serenely? Most of them may not choose that. So, to make the smokers quit smoking, it is better to design tobacco package with warning labels of smoking than increasing its price.

  'Smoking is not good for health.' Almost every person around the world know this fact. In reality, there are 4700 kinds of pernicious ingredients like carbon monoxide, nicotine, cyanide and ammonia and they work as causing or promoting cancer. Also, they result in not only cancer but respiratory diseases. For these reasons, it is advised to stop smoking world widely, then most of the countries have implemented various endeavors to make their nation quit smoking. Increasing tobacco price, warning labels on its package and anti-smoking education at schools or companies are those examples. In Korea, the government have carried out education to lower smoking rate. However, according to OECD, the smoking rate of Korea points 21.6%, which ranks 14 among 34 countries. It is almost similar with an  average smoking rate (20.7%)of OECD countries. This means that Korea still needs some more policies to drop the smoking rate. 

  In this stream, recently,Korean government enacted  a law about increasing tobacco price.The government decided to increase tobacco price as much as 2500 won averagely. However, it is controversial in Korean society, because the government didn't use tobacco tax for anti-smoking projects. The original national health promotion fund is 2-billion-won, but only 1.2% of that price used in real anti-smoking projects. Also, some people criticize this policy, because it is restricted to the common people, not for every person. That is, smokers who are rich do not mind increased price of cigarette. This is regarded as limits of this policy. Furthermore, just increasing the price of tobacco cannot eliminate the fundamental motive of smoking. 

  At this point, To make the smokers quit smoking, it is better to design tobacco package with warning labels of smoking than increasing its price. The warning labels in this argument mean not just prose, but images that give smokers feel provocative and alarming. Countries like Australia, Brazil and Belgium are using this policy and exactly more than 60 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, Western Pacific regions, America,  South-East Asia and Europe require images or pictures on cigarette packages.
Smokers from countries where there are images which represent bad influences of smoking on the cigarette package were far more likely to know about the hazard of smoking. In Korean society, designing cigarette package with warning labels of smoking will be more effective policy than increasing its price.

  The effect of designing tobacco package with warning labels can be explained by psychological theory. To quit smoking is regarded as hard work, because of its chemicals, nicotine. Nicotine is one of the most excessively used addictive drugs in the world. It makes smokers be not able to quit smoking and also makes them accompany with withdrawal symptoms including anxiety, irritability,  difficulty concentrating and insomnia. Because of that addiction, smoking is leading cause of death in Australia, recording killing 15,000 people in a year. That means it really requires people to have mental attitude about quitting smoking. Then, what psychological influences that smokers receive from the warning labels on the package? 

  Above all, it is learning psychology. It means that as we learn, we alter the way we perceive our environment, the way we interpret the incoming stimuli, and therefore the way we interact, or behave. When a smoker buy cigarette, he or she contact with the package images that show harmful influences of smoking. As more he contact with it, he may think of bad effects of smoking, and then consider to smoke or not. Given the reach and frequency of exposure, warning labels have a probability to have a significant impact on smoking behavior. 

  Also, it is also considered that the vision put an importance role on our mental. We think and feel a lot when we see something. When we watch scary movie, mental state of fear is created in our mind and when we watch sad scene, we may feel sadness in our mind. Sometimes, we take a rest through visiting art museum or traveling. All these things are related to vision. It is also applied to warning images on tobacco package. The images work as compelling stimuli (because of its formidability), so he or she may receive considerable confusion. Most of all smokers know that smoking is harmful, but rarely see its terrible outcomes directly. Therefore, the smoker wants to avoid that horrible situation then the effect of labeling will be more considerable.

  Obviously, my opinion cannot be applied to all people. There are people who do not mind or believe provocative and warning images on the tobacco package. However, although some smokers do not mind that, it is meaningful, because they can definitely see that smoking is harmful through threatening images. Repeated caution images may be stamped on the smokers' memory. Also, when the non-smokers see some warning images, they can also know the real, bad influences of smoking. Therefore, although some smokers do not react to the warning images, it'll be not that big problem.
  Here is another problem that someone may suggest. In New York city, there are people who are selling only one cigar, and it can be occurred in Korea, too. Then, buyers do not have to watch warning images on the tobacco packages. However, it is illegal definitely. In addition, because the sellers are likely to go where multiple people convene, catching them will be not a big problem.

Worrying about the health of nation, Korea government have tried to lower the smoking rate by enacting the law about increasing cigarette price, but it is needed to solve fundamental problems. At this point, warning labels on tobacco package can not only give smokers a chance to think about severity of smoking, but check the negative results of smoking through real images. Furthermore, the realistic and provocative images from the package can make smokers get insecure state of mind, and then in the case of non-smokers, they can reconsider the harmful effect of smoking through those images.

  Hence, warning labels on tobacco package is helpful to quit smoking than just increasing its price. If we try to solve the intrinsic problem like this, there will be a remarkable result of decreased smoking rate.  

   

Research 4

 Realities of Korean government policy about increasing tobacco price

http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2994741

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140911000934

; these are used for narration