Social Engineering-Attempts to Reduce Smoking

Social engineering is the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.

Public smoking bans are allegedly based on the assumption that smoke; either exhaled or streaming from the end of a lit cigarette, otherwise known as secondhand smoke or Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), is a health threat to nearby nonsmokers.

Tobacco Duty is an excise duty charged on purchases of tobacco products including cigarettes, cigars, hand-rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco.

Media campagins have helped instill antismoking attitudes among the general public, changing the social norms from largely positive to strongly negative have motivated many people to quit.

Interventions to reduce smoking, social support and stress management.

Social influence intervention, social environment as the most important determinant of smoking.


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