Question

The medical profession has a muddled and contradictory association with its approach toward the tobacco industry. While the profession now firmly opposes to smoking and vigorously publicizes the serious, even fatal, health hazards associated with smoking, this was not always so. Advertisements for tobacco products, including cigarettes "... became a ready source of income for numerous medical organizations and journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as well as many branches and bulletins of local medical associations" (Wolinsky & Brune, 1994). Physicians and reference to doctors and smoking were once common in tobacco industry advertisements. The story of physicians and promotion of smoking can be found in "The Doctors' Choice Is America's Choice" (Gardner & Brandt, 2006).

The role of physicians in the current opioid crisis is now under scrutiny on television (Farmer, 2019) by trade publications (King, 2018), peer-reviewed journals (deShazo, et al, 2018), and by physicians themselves (Hirsch, 2019).

Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, research the history of the association of doctors with tobacco companies and tobacco advertising. Read about the association of doctors with the opioid crisis. Then, address the following:

• In what way are the two situations comparable?
• In what way are they different?
• Apply the concept of moral equivalence. Is the conduct of doctors in relation to smoking and the tobacco industry morally equivalent to the conduct of doctors in the opioid crisis? Explain your position and be very specific.

Answer 1

Association of doctors with tobacco companies and tobacco advertising: Before ,when when we didn't know the cause of lung cancer ,Tobacco companies are hired doctors for promotions of tobacco product .The says that their products are don't cause irritation to nose and mouth. But after after identifying tobacco is smoking was main risk for.lung Cancer doctors didn't working for promotions instead they are encourage to avoid smoking .

Association of doctors with opioid crisi: It causes due to over use of opioid .After adding pian as 5th vital signs thus use was grossly increase.Opioid is a main pain killer durg.asone of the doctor statement as antibiotics we prescribed opioid as pain killer because we don't want to feel patient discomfort and need to reduce pain.and this also approved from FAD.

Both are unhealthy to health due to over usage .As doctors avoiding and encourage to avoid smoking but they can't able to avoid prescription of opioid because it was pain relif.medicine but dosages are decreasing.

Opioid crisis depends on patient ,because it causes addiction if we use continuous ,better use with doctor prescription.