Over the course of the next few months, i will be WRITING blogs about present global issues.
Tabbaco is an issue that is faced by many people in every country across the world. Tabacco is a plant that contains a stimulant that can be received by either being smoked or chewed. This stimulant is highly addictive and gets millions of people hooked to dangerous tobacco products for many years. There are many negative effects of tobacco use and production. One is that tobacco contributes to poverty and world hunger. It also is very deadly in dangerous. One last problem is that the production of this drug damages the environment. Tobacco is responsible for the deaths in 1 of every 10 adults. It kills about 6 million people anually. That is the equivalent of a person dying from tobacco every 6 seconds. Half of all tobacco users end up being killed by it. That is why they market to children and try to hook the next generation of customers. It is the leading preventable cause of death today. Tobacco increasing poverty and hunger is a problem that is more prevalent in poorer areas of the world. When a person becomes addicted to tobacco products, they will undergo withdrawl if they do not receive its stimulus for an extended period of time. This withdrawl is usually very uncomfortable so addicts keep their tobacco products on them regularly. If an addict is poor, they will sometimes spend on tobacco products before food for themselves and their family. This is bad and unhealthy. Tobacco products shift people's attention from food to tobacco and wastes their money to contribute to hunger and poverty. However, some positive effects of tobacco are that they contribute to a stronger economy with a higher GDP and that they provide jobs for many workers.
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Throughout the world, many countries struggle in poverty and crisis. In these rough times, they often turn to the IMF for economic support. The IMF gives loans to these poorer countries and supports them with developing and improving trading, medicine, technology, and debt relief. The idea of this is to give poor countries in debt a chance to succeed and develop into powerful countries. This is a great idea, but it takes a lot of money to do, and you don't just find billions bucks anywhere. When the IMF decides to loan to a country, they turn to large, rich countries for capitol. Of course they have to pay them back so they try to make sure that the countries develop and succeed, so they can make back that money. During this whole process, of course, the IMF has been intending on their own benefit, as well. They include interest in their loans that can put a country in debt even further. They also regulate and direct their spending and economic decisions. This can sometimes go against the countries interest, and they later find out it was in the IMF or investing country's greatest interest. One other problem that arose in this system was failure of richer countries to participate. Countries have not been meeting their promises on expected lending to poorer countries. There is an $180 billion gap between the promised debt relief and provided relief to struggling countries. There are some things that other successful countries could do to help without having to lend money. Countries could remove subsidies on exports to poorer countries that would over compete with their local businesses. They could remove trade between themselves. Additionally, they could develop trade agreements that could possibly mutually benefit each other, but most importantly, support the poorer countries businesses.
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