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Our local PBS channel has aired some Channel One programs. They're really pretty good.
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GO GO GO!
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Originally posted by Ming
Prove it... instead of just making stuff up, show some real life proof of your claims.
(Oh, and what did you think of Jag bag Thursday today... some great stuff) |
Here for starters...
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UAE University study suggests ban on cigarette advertisements in media
Al Ain |By Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief | 29-07-2003
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Cigarettes should be included in the category of 'dangerous and addictive drugs' to restrict their sale and advertisement, suggests a recent study carried out by the UAE University (UAEU).
The study also recommended enactment of appropriate legislation to support the measure and increase the tax on tobacco products from the current 100 per cent to 200 per cent.
It also suggested to ban advertisement of cigarettes in media and public places seen by children and youth as it feared a constant increase in young smokers despite several control measures taken by the UAE authorities.
Referring to a report of the Ministry of Health issued in October last year, the study said some 14.3 per cent male and 2.9 per cent female teenagers are smokers.
The research was done by three students of the university, Shatha Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Jamila Saif Al Ketbi and Kulaithem Mohammed Al Mazrooei from the Faculty of Medicines and Health Sciences at the UAEU.
Peter Barss and Dr Fatima Al Maskari from the Department of Community Medicine supervised the students' work and investigation. The team sought help from the teachers and students of Al Ain Educational Zone in a cross-sectional survey in which Grade 10 students of several schools were interviewed through a questionnaire.
The questionnaire had 18 questions to collect information for analysing the students attitude, knowledge, and opinion to prevent smoking.
Some 360 female students were included in the study out of which 242 were UAE nationals and 115 from other Arab countries. The information thus collected revealed that 51 per cent of them have a smoker in their family, and 26 per cent have a smoking father.
Fifty per cent students, who have a smoker in their families, perceived a smoker as someone who lacks confidence. Fifty-two per cent girls from the non-smoking families perceived smokers as losers. Sixty-one per cent girls, who have no smokers in their families, said they will not marry a smoker. This opinion was also found among 38 per cent girls who belonged to smoking families.
The researchers also found flaws in public awareness as 50 per cent girls received almost no education about smoking in schools.
Only 53 per cent girls felt that it is extremely difficult to give up this habit. Girls who had a smoker in their families were found more aware. They said it is extremely difficult to quit smoking.
Most of the girls (63 per cent) believed that peer pressure is the main reason for acquiring the habit. More girls from smoking families said it is extremely harmful. Nearly all girls knew that smoking causes heart diseases and lung cancer.
However, 60 per cent did not know that smoking causes other cancers. Seventy per cent did not know that passive smoking causes health problems for children including ear and chest infections and asthma.
During the survey students also recommended many control measures to prevent smoking such as restricting cigarette sales to those aged 21 years, banning cigarette advertisements in all forms of media, and training health professionals on counselling for smoking cessation.
The research also recommended increased educational activities for children, youth and parents in schools and in media about addictiveness and its effects on health. |
I'll look for more studies. But advertising has been linked to eating disorders in women as well. If advertisements didn't have any effect on people, IT WOULDN'T BE A HUGE INDUSTRY! To say that ads don't have a negative effect is wrong.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/n...ArticleID=93784
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Free public quality education for all!
That's the point isn't it?
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Belgium, land of plenty (corruption)
Jan 2000
time: 06:30
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Originally posted by Ming
Channel One is an excellent educational tool. These days, many kids won't open a book, but will watch tv. Using it as an education tool is smart. A few commercials doesn't negate that. |
I don't rightly know what Channel 1 is; is it something you watch at school every day? Or do they just do programmes on the stuff you should be talking about in class?
In any case, tv programmes can be quite useful, as they can show experiments (sciences) that require sophisticated/expensive tools, or they can show information on nature in general you would not see otherwise. But in the end, such programmes are just something extra, you won't pass your exams if you have only watched these programmes, teh kids'll need their fat ugly book if they like it or not!
advertising is not really appropriate in educational tv, but I wouldn't make a fuss about it.. it's not like you're watching the uberdumb advertising on normal stations anyway (I don't!)
I just don't see how ads fit in with these kind of scientific programmes (I can't imagine having seen ads myself at school!)
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Something IS wrong with the educational system. It is no longer about educating. It is about providing "senior year experiences"; it is about school spirit(ie. pep rallies on a nearly weekly basis, at least in the school district here). We put more money into the public education system, and results continue to go downhill.
They don't need more funding - they need to get back to educating. One of the high schools here has 14 coaches for football alone, with the top coach making 70,000 a year. This doesn't count the rival high school, or the numerous basketball, baseball, tennis, track, volleyball and softball coaches. Does this school district need money? Apparently, as they are "being forced" to cut school bus routes, make do with less, etc.
A lack of funding, or a lack of proper priorities?
Back to the topic: Students perceived something as a problem, and protested it. American history is replete with this kind of stuff (ie Boston Tea Party, Revolution, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, etc etc.)
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Comrade Tassadar
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Never heard of Channel 1, but from what Google has taught me it's a news organization for children.
No, this is not like saying "It's against my religion to take tests" or saying "It's against my religion to learn math". That is a large overstatement. It's saying the child does not want to watch television. Everything one can learn on TV can be learned in a book as well. To send a youth to a Juvenile Detention Facility is what Stalinists would do for refusing to watch a propaganda video.
This school is defiant in the face of the American tradition of freedom of religion, and the administrators of the school should be held to a public flogging.
Thank you.
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Better than going to jail. Start small, then escalate. Don't start at the top or you have no where to go. |
Like any of us would have given a damn about some kids putting their heads down in class, and get a lunchtime detention for it.
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