A Self Reflection

As a whole, writing research paper is really suffering for me.
Every step in writing research paper is somtimes hard,
you need to figure out what idea should be put in or out,
and need to make a survey to support your points.
That's realy make me tired out!
Besides,
I really appreciate this webblog acitivities except for the operation of this blog.
I used to adapt to it for the emtire semester, still can't figure it out.
Well, Google is a giant on the intenet.
But its product like this is really....poor,
that's make me a liitle bit disappointed.
And I have to say... it difinitely is NOT your fault!
I mean Doris and Grace.
However,
it's still a funny experience to use blog in teaching and studing.
Though I did not very interested in Google's blog.

My Argumentation Part

The follwing is my RP argumentation:

Cigarette, for some people, may be a necessity in their daily life. Some people smoke for relaxation or releasing emotions. Some smoke for expressing manliness or sexual appeal, and some just get into the habit of smoking. What’s more, some people even say that smoking can refresh them while tired out. Cigarette, in a sense, is like a sort of chronic drug. It may not kill a person in a short time but definitely it brings smokers and the people around them deadly harms or illness, lung cancer, for example. However, the harm smoking brings already became a serious problem in public health.Though some related laws already restrict the smoking areas for smokers, for further decreasing the influence of secondhand smoke and public health government should raise more taxes on cigarettes. The price of cigarettes may hence rise. Also it can reduce the customers’ desire for purchasing as well as the generation of secondhand smoke directly or indirectly.

About my data collection

First, I will go to design a questionnaire about tobacco tax and the secondhand smoke. This questionnaire may includes a part of open questions so as to obtain the ideas about how do common people think about the tobacco issue. And of course , the interviewees include smoker and non-smokers, men and women, youth and adults so that I can obtain a subjective views form the public. Also, I will go to look for the information about tobacco taxes of a few countries or areas and their actions on anti-tobacco and anti-secondhand smoke, and comparing them with Taiwan's. The information I choose may come from the online sources and library sources. Besides, I will try to compare other countries or areas laws and rules on tobacco control with Taiwan's in order to reflect the irrational situation of tobacco control of Taiwan. For one thing, to protect the public health. For another, to arouse people's idea on anti- tobacco. And teaching them the idea that the harm of tobacco production is more dangerous than you can imagine.

My Works Cited List

“Higher Cigarettes Taxes: Reduce Smoking Save Lives Save Money”. Oct 2006. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Jan. 2007 < http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/prices/ >.

“ Research Finds Link between Smoking and Skin Damage ”. Health and Age. Mar. 2007. March 2007. < http://www.healthandage.com/public/news/10504/Research-finds-link-between-smoking-and-skin-damage.html > .
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“ Secondhand Smoke Harms”. Hong Kong Council On Smoking and Health. 2004. Jan. 2007
< http://www.smokefree.hk/cosh/ccs/detail.xml?lang=en&fldrid=201 >.

“ Taiwan Tobacco Control Annual Report 2006 ”. Oct 2006. Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, Taiwan. Jan. 2007 < http://tobacco.bhp.doh.gov.tw:8080/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=8 >.
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“Xi Er Shou Yan De Wei Hai " <吸二手菸的危害？>[ The Hazards of Secondhand Smoke ]. November 2007. Yahoo Knowledge. Jan. 2007 < http://ks.cn.yahoo.com/question/?&qid=1406112717976&source=ysearch_ks_question_zjtj >.

“ Wo Guo Yan Pin Shui Zhi Ying Ju Bei Te Zong Xiao Shou Shui Zhi Gong Nen " <我國菸品稅制應具備特種銷售稅之功能>[Taiwan's Taxation of Tabacco should Have the Fuction of Special Sales Tax].June 2003. NPF Research Report. National Policy Foundation ( NPF ) Mar. 2007 .< http://www.npf.org.tw/PUBLICATION/FM/092/FM-R-092-010.htm >.

My RP Intro

Cigarette, for some people, may play a necessary role in their daily life. Also, many people do know that indeed cigarette is no good to anyone. However, the smoking population is still growing. For protecting the people who don't smoke, governments of many countries take measures to protect the non-smokers. Finding that to raise the taxes on cigarettes, though cause higher price, may be a better way to directly reduce the consumption on cigarettes. Since additional taxes increases the cost of sales and it will reflects the cost on the prices, finally higher prices decrease the smoker's will of purchasing. It may just an application of marketing principle, but it helps a lot in reducing the consumption of cigarettes. In addition, one great accessional effect is reducing the harm of secondhand smoke.

Some smoke for relaxation or releasing emotions, some smoke for expressing certain manliness or sex appeal, others merely get into a habit of smoking. However, what about the people beside those smokers? The cigarette harms is now one serious problem for public heath in the world, there are more than one billion smokers all over the world. And it was estimated that every year there are ten million people die of lung cancer caused by smoking. And some people's cancer comes from the people around them who smoke, that is, the serious harm of secondhand smoke.

Though some related laws already restrict the smoking areas and ages for smokers, for further decreasing the influence of secondhand smoke and public health, our government is supposed to raise more taxes on the cigarette. The price of cigarette may hence rise, also it can reduce the customers' desire for purchasing cigarette as well as the generation of secondhand smoke directly or indirectly.The article here is talking about the influence of the additional taxes on cigarette, even if the result of raising tax includes both positive and negative outcomes. The policy of raising tax on cigarette do helps public health a lot. Public health is one important public benefit, it should be prior to economic profits. Our government should takes this into consideration and determines to prohibit the harms of cigarette. After all, without healthy body no one can enjoy the economic profits.

RP 2nd outline draft

Raising More Taxes on Cigarette

Cigarette for some people may play a necessary role in their everyday life, some smoke for relaxation or releasing emotions, some smoke for expressing certain manliness or sex appeal, others merely get into a habit of smoking. However, what about the people beside those smokers? Many people may agree that those who don't smoke do not have the obligation to receive secondhand smoke. Though some related laws already restrict the smoking areas for smokers, for further decreasing the influence of secondhand smoke and public health government should raise more taxes on the cigarette. The price of cigarette may hence rise, also it can reduce the customers' desire for purchasing cigarette as well as the generation of secondhand smoke directly or indirectly.

I. Introduction

1. The present situation of taxing cigarette in Taiwan.
2. Lower cigarette taxation will lower the budget for anti-smoking
3.Through taxing the cigarette government can control cigarette consumption and smoking population.

II. Present situation of cigarette taxes

1. Cigarette taxes can be decisive to the consumption of cigarette.

a. Higher taxes make cigarette prices higher and reduce the purchasing of cigarette.
b. Lower consumption of cigarette will reduce secondhand smoke and it will be helpful to public heath.

2. The budget of national insurance come from part of cigarette taxes.
a. The cigarette price contains the health tax.
b. Raising health tax will be helpful to the protection of non-smokers.

3. Cigarette tax is one important resource for government revenues, to expand the resource (raising tax) can contribute to the government finance.

III. The relation between cigarette Tax and public Health.

1. Secondhand smoke results in harms in human body.
a. Second smoke and smoking increase the chance of getting aspiratory diseases.
b. Second smoke causes infant deformity while pregnancy. It’s a big harm for a mother-to-be and her child.
c. Smoking will causes carcinogenic problems and cardiovascular problem, such as lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer and heart disease.

2. A method to decrease smoking population and second smoke—raising cigarette tax.
a. The advantage of raising taxes on cigarette.

(1) Extra taxation can help government finance.
(2) Higher cigarette prices will reduce smoking population, and secondhand smoke. That will be good for public health.
(3) Government can take advantage of the extra budget to perfect the protection for non-smokers.

IV. First hand data collection
1. Make a questionnaire about raising tax.
2. To Survey on the internet.
3. Interviewing some victims of secondhand smoke.

V. Conclusion
1. To come up with the effective influence while raising cigarette taxes
2. After all, non-smokers are the majority in the world, smokers should care about the people around them and at least try not to bother them when smoking.

New Topic --> Raising More Taxes on Cigarette

Cigarette for some people maybe play necessary role in their everyday life, some smoke for relaxation or releasing emotions, some smoke for expressing certain manliness or sex appeal, some merely because they alreay get into a habit of smoking. However, what about the people beside those smokers? Many people may agree that those who don't smoke do not have the obligation to receive secondhand smoke. Though some related laws already restrict the places for smokers, for futher decreasing the influence of secondhand smoke and public health governement should raise more taxes on the cigarette. The price of cigarette may hence rise, also it can reduce the customers' desire for purchasig cigatte as well as the produce of secondhand smoke directly or indirectly.

I. Introduction

1. The present situation of taxing cigarette

2. Lower taxation lowers the budget for anti-smoking

3. Use taxes to control cigarette consumption and smoking population

II. Tax and Health

1.The advantage of rasing taxes on cigarette

a. government finace

b. public health

c. extra budget for the protection of non-smoker

2. the healthy problem caused by smoking

a. lung cancer

b. heart disease

c. laryngo-carcinoma(喉癌)

d. apoplexy....

3. harm of secondhand smoke

a. increasing the chance of getting aspiratory disease

b. causing infant deformity while pregnancy

III. Policy on cigarette taxes

1. cigarette taxes and cigarette consumption

2. cigarette taxes and national insurance expense

3. cigarette taxes and government finance

IV. conclusion

1. the effective influence of raising cigarette taxes

2. consideration of pulic health

Television Stream

Televion is one powerful mass media in the human history, its appearnce extends the way people receives information. With abundant and various information pouring in vision, television influences all walks of life and lots of aspects in daily life. However, it’s also makes people often cannot tell correct and incorrect information from a great mass of news. Since people became dependent on the resource which provides news. People’s desire of knowing of news enforces the dependece on televion.

I. Developement of television

1. Vivid visual image’s emergence
2. Replacement with broadcasting
3. the main stream of the mass media

II. Fuctions of televion

1. Transmission of news
2. Change the usage of languages
3. Developement of visual art

III. Influence of television

1. Shape and covey the news of any aspect in daily life to the society.
2. Chanege and reshape the ideas people already have.
3. Reform the language rules and customs.
4. Change people’s physical and psychological behaviors.
5. Healthy problem—myopia(nearsighted) and television radiation

IV. Coclusion

1. Television has a great influence on human laguage and thinking.
2. People’s need of knowing enforces the dependence on televion.
3. TV violence will hinder a human’s mind from normally and healthily developing.
4. An informative explosion time has come.