L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Paternalism, American Medical Association, Chronic Condition
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Illegal to grow poppy, but legal to grow tobacco. Focuses mainly on production side of tobacco. Mexican migrant labor, farm loss, industrialization of farms. Healthcare access for migrant workers, rural poverty. Corporate paternalism and the problem of harmful products peter benson article. Of course they don"t want to sell them. Not wanting to do something, but doing it thinking about families and children: justifying it in terms of caring for families and kids. The only legal product that when you use it as intended, its harmful. Mass burden of disease associated with legal forms of consumption that is massively advertised. Talking about behavioral health problems and how it interfaces with clinical medicine. Disease burdens not caused by a vector, but by industrialized production of legal products: how do we prevent that, lifestyle promotion. Big reason why it should be banned lung/heart disease. Education gradient related to tobacco use the more education the less likely to smoke.
