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Tobacco

... at least occasionally was halved to 23%. In contrast U.S. efforts have been a huge disappointment. Some 30% of high school seniors smoked through the 80's and now there is an alarming increase. Clinton's program doesn't include a stiff tax increase and experts say that is where Canada's progress stemmed from. The big disappointment is kids have smoked more since the Federal and Provincial Governments slashed cigarette taxes in early 1994 to combat a flood of cheap smokes smuggled in from the U.S. A pack of 25 now sells for aro ...

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Vote No For Quebec To Be Separate From Canada

... a valid point because Canada's culture and heritage is largely defined by that of Quebec. Quebec separating from Canada would mean that Canada as a whole would lose that part of its history. Quebec does not need to separate from Canada to maintain its culture since Canada has always greatly encouraged it. Voting YES to the referendum will cause problems in many relationships between peolpe who live in Quebec and those in the rest of Canada. Some of these problems are unemployment and jobs. The residents of Quebec will no longer be able ...

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Tobacco

... is that something? ads play an important part in getting people hooked. The government has taken a step in the right direction by reducing the ways that the industry can advertise . They have limited it to written ads mostly like magazines, billboards, sponsorship (meaning that Marlboro could sponsor a racecar driver), and T-shirts. They aren’t able to advertise on television or radio in any way. This helps to steer youth away from . But is this grafting the industry’s amendment of free speech? Not when the industry is responsible for t ...

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Basic Principles Of Democracy

... not ignore these ations’ importance making judicial decision or the stability of the country is at risk. Majority rule and minority rights is a basic foundation of democracy. A general concept of this foundation is that the popular vote will be the deciding party in most cases. Along with this concept the minority of the people will maintain certain basic human rights that will not be compromised by the popular vote. A challenge to this principle occurred when Asheville City district zoning was voted on many years ago, and unfortunately w ...

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Constitutionalism

... persons and properties of English men and women. After eleven years, he was compelled to summon Parliament in November 1640 because of he need of money for a war with Scottish rebels. He accepted measures given to him after Long Parliament. Parliament forces him to sign Triennial Act, which meant he must call Parliament at least every three years. They enacted legislation that limited the power of the monarch and made arbitrary government impossible. Commons impeached land and abolished the House of Lords and the Eccleseastical court o ...

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Censorship

... the educational system, films, radio, television, and against the graphic and theatre arts. However or whenever these attacks occur, they usually fall at least one of the following categories: Religion War & Peace (Violence) Sociology & Race Language Drugs Sex Inappropriate Adolescent Behaviour What is Obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively. "Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing obscene? It is Something too vague perhaps to ...

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A Time To Step Down

... 1974 the Nation witnessed its first president to resign from office. Due to the mounting evidence of President Nixon role in the 1973 Watergate scandal, (burglars broke in to the National Democratic Headquarters.) Richard Nixon resigned from office, his resignation August 8th due to proof on the following charges including obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential power, and the refusal to obey house subpoenas. Did Richard Nixon resign because he knew that he lost the faith of the Republican Party and most important of all, American ...

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Ghandi's Influence On India

... of gigantic power, and intense sense pursuits, have through her foreign literature caused a tremendous stir; on the other though confounding din of all these discordant sounds, she hears, in low, yet unmistakable accents, the heart rending cries of her ancient gods, cutting her to the quick. He saying to the Indian people to not forget There heritage, and more importantly not to think of there lifestyle as primitive they should automatically put people and there ideas on a pedestal, it is new and different doesn’t mean its good f ...

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Womens Rights In 3rd World Cou

... a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution. The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regime's guards recaptured her and shot her to death." From China comes the following observation. " ...

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Immigration Should Be Restricted

... rate has been on a steady decline, which has started to level off in the past few years. With the addition of all these immigrants, the amount of people unemployed and on welfare is sure to increase geometrically, as the number of open work positions increases merely arithmetically; therefore contributing to our nations national debt, tax, and unemployment rates. The rates at which immigrants are willing to work at further burden the citizen’s hope of finding a "good paying job". Business and industry owners do not care who they have wor ...

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Affirmative Action

... it makes it more of an issue. Although the concept of affirmative action is good, the result of it on whites has been bad. In a survey in 1984, one out of ten white males claimed to have personally felt reverse discrimination. Reverse discrimination is the term being used to describe discrimination towards whites. Many of these reverse discrimination cases have been brought to court, the result is just more confusion. This is because there is a lot of gray in the law concerning this topic. Sometimes courts allow someone to choose the mino ...

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Domestic Violence

... negative affect on the abused, mentally and physically, and more needs to be done to help the abused and prevent it from happening further. Even though Domestic violence can be caused by either the male or the female it is usually caused by the male due to their controlling nature and physical advantage. History and Causes Since the dawn of time physical force has been used to keep subordinate groups in their place by dominant people in society. Men have always been physically larger than women and since most societies are male d ...

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