Dr. Novello was a woman of dedication who worked her way up and became the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Novello’s main focus was to reduce the causes of the four public health problems: aids, violence, alcohol, and tobacco. Dr. Novella used a type of inductive reasoning referred to as the “cause-and-effect” to try and stop the increasing rates of teenagers smoking. Two of the ways she tried to stop the smoking among teenagers is increasing the amount of education in schools and the banning of the cigarette advertising towards the youth. Dr. Novello’s effort to put more education in schools would hopefully decrease the amount of teenagers to smoke. So, Cause 1 would be increasing the amount of education in schools, Cause 2 would be banning all the ads of cigarettes and alcohol use that targeted the youth, and the Effect is less teenagers will smoke because of all the school work and minimal advertisement of cigarettes. Dr. Novello’s actions were a success since the number of reported cases of AIDS and domestic violence declined.
I really enjoyed reading about Dr. Novello fight against young children and smoking. How she was able to see the influence that Joe Camel ads had on the young children during that time frame. She used her critical thinking skills to use inductive generalization to put together that the increase of the number of teens was because of the ads that Joe Camel was airing on television. It just shows how easily persuaded young teens can be with something as simple as an ad on tv. After being able to see the problem of smoking among teens she was able to find a way to put a stop to it and persuade others to see the major health problems for younger generations.
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