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I am a senior at Rice University pursuing a major in Kinesiology with a concentration in Health Sciences and a Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities minor. I am interested in examining tobacco use prevalence and the related disparities among women and vulnerable populations. I hope that learning more about these issues and contributing to Wikipedia articles will provide me with valuable insight and raise awareness in order to inform critical policies in tobacco use.
This semester, I plan on revising the article Smoking in South Korea. I have been involved in tobacco prevention research in the past year - in both the public health and clinical realms. Through my experiences, I have gained a great interest in tobacco use and its multiple dimensions including prevention, behavior, and control. Particularly, I am interested in the inequalities surrounding tobacco use - the forces that make some groups more vulnerable than others, their implications in reinforcing health disparities, and the sociocultural contexts in which they occur. Especially with the rise of novel tobacco products (e.g. Juul, IQOS, other e-cigarettes), these topics are important to address.
Below, I have outlined my proposal.
Topic:
Smoking in South Korea
Rationale for revision and expansion:
Outdated Information
Lack of information regarding novel products
Lack of information regarding tobacco control
Lack of information regarding sociocultural environment
Notability
Comparison with:
Smoking in North Korea (Good Article)
Tracked changes outline:
1. Historical background (Rename to “History”)
2. Prevalence
2.1 Cigarettes
2.2 Novel tobacco products
3. Sociocultural environment
3.1 General Attitudes
3.2 Gender difference
4. Tobacco control
4.1 Smoke-free policies
4.2 Increased tobacco taxes
4.3 Limitations on advertising and marketing
4.4 Anti-smoking campaigns
5. Effects of smoking
5.1 Health effects
5.2 Economic effects
2. Laws
2.1. Nationwide
2.2. Seoul
2.3. Other regions
3. Financial and medical help for quitting
4. Prevalence and effects
5. South Korean smoking etiquette
6.. See also
7. References
7.1 Works cited
8. External links
Planned work outline:
History
Prevalence
Sociocultural Environment
Tobacco Control
Effects of Smoking
Links:
In Smoking in South Korea
In other articles to Smoking in South Korea
Potential challenges:
One difficulty will be clearly defining the term smoking and tobacco use and how they are different and similar, especially in regard to the novel tobacco products widely used in South Korea. To elucidate this common confusion, I will link to respective articles and use the organizational structure of tobacco products to convey that the term smoking is equated to the term tobacco use, except in the case of smokeless tobacco, which isn’t very popular in South Korea. Another difficulty is finding promising literature on the socio-cultural elements of smoking in South Korea as there does not seem to be too many. However, I feel that using the existing literature effectively, although limited in number, will suffice in providing a broad overview of the topic.
![]() | This user is a student editor in Rice_University/Human_Development_in_Local_and_Global_Communities_(Spring_2020). |
This user is a student editor in
Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Rice_University/Poverty,_Justice,_and_Human_Capabilities_(Fall_2017). Student assignments should always be carried out using a course page set up by the instructor. It is usually best to develop assignments in your sandbox. After evaluation, the additions may go on to become a Wikipedia article or be published in an existing article. |
I am a senior at Rice University pursuing a major in Kinesiology with a concentration in Health Sciences and a Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities minor. I am interested in examining tobacco use prevalence and the related disparities among women and vulnerable populations. I hope that learning more about these issues and contributing to Wikipedia articles will provide me with valuable insight and raise awareness in order to inform critical policies in tobacco use.
This semester, I plan on revising the article Smoking in South Korea. I have been involved in tobacco prevention research in the past year - in both the public health and clinical realms. Through my experiences, I have gained a great interest in tobacco use and its multiple dimensions including prevention, behavior, and control. Particularly, I am interested in the inequalities surrounding tobacco use - the forces that make some groups more vulnerable than others, their implications in reinforcing health disparities, and the sociocultural contexts in which they occur. Especially with the rise of novel tobacco products (e.g. Juul, IQOS, other e-cigarettes), these topics are important to address.
Below, I have outlined my proposal.
Topic:
Smoking in South Korea
Rationale for revision and expansion:
Outdated Information
Lack of information regarding novel products
Lack of information regarding tobacco control
Lack of information regarding sociocultural environment
Notability
Comparison with:
Smoking in North Korea (Good Article)
Tracked changes outline:
1. Historical background (Rename to “History”)
2. Prevalence
2.1 Cigarettes
2.2 Novel tobacco products
3. Sociocultural environment
3.1 General Attitudes
3.2 Gender difference
4. Tobacco control
4.1 Smoke-free policies
4.2 Increased tobacco taxes
4.3 Limitations on advertising and marketing
4.4 Anti-smoking campaigns
5. Effects of smoking
5.1 Health effects
5.2 Economic effects
2. Laws
2.1. Nationwide
2.2. Seoul
2.3. Other regions
3. Financial and medical help for quitting
4. Prevalence and effects
5. South Korean smoking etiquette
6.. See also
7. References
7.1 Works cited
8. External links
Planned work outline:
History
Prevalence
Sociocultural Environment
Tobacco Control
Effects of Smoking
Links:
In Smoking in South Korea
In other articles to Smoking in South Korea
Potential challenges:
One difficulty will be clearly defining the term smoking and tobacco use and how they are different and similar, especially in regard to the novel tobacco products widely used in South Korea. To elucidate this common confusion, I will link to respective articles and use the organizational structure of tobacco products to convey that the term smoking is equated to the term tobacco use, except in the case of smokeless tobacco, which isn’t very popular in South Korea. Another difficulty is finding promising literature on the socio-cultural elements of smoking in South Korea as there does not seem to be too many. However, I feel that using the existing literature effectively, although limited in number, will suffice in providing a broad overview of the topic.