Harmful Tobacco

Anti-tobacco day is observed all around the world on May 31, every year. We started observing this day since 1987. 

Young generation is addicted to tobacco products. You can find smoking habits among school children. We don’t really care the harm caused by these products unless it happens to our kith and kin. Why are people addicted to tobacco products? It is mainly because of the nicotine present in it. Nicotine makes tobacco addiction. 

 

Use of tobacco products cause lung cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, chronic pulmonary diseases, emphysema, bronchitis, strokes and heart attacks. Nicotine reduces supply of oxygen to heart, increases blood pressure and heart rate and also causes clotting of blood. It damages the cells of coronary artery and other blood vessels. 

Awareness may reduce the use of this product. Though it is written in the packet cigarette smoking is injurious to health, people use it. Now the US Food and Drug administration released some graphical images to deter the smokers. Some sentences they selected are as follows:

• Cigarette causes strokes and heart disease.
• Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease.
• Cigarettes cause cancer.
• Smoking can kill you.
• Cigarettes are addictive.

Some treatments to avoid tobacco usage are nicotine replacement therapies, bupropine SR and varenicline tartrate (this reduces the tendency to smoke).

According to WHO, around 35% men in developed countries and 50% in developing countries smoke. China, Russia, US, Japan and Indonesia are leading nations in cigarette consuming. WHO expects that the death rate caused by tobacco is to rise ten million by 2020.

TV terms

Stand up: reporter stands in a relevant location and makes the report

Off-diary: an article that was not scheduled to be covered but that a journalist writes on his or her own initiative

Shooting ratio: it is the ratio between the amount of material that is filmed and the amount used in the finished television programme.

Shooting script: it is the final screenplay for a cinema or television film that includes directions for shooting and is divided into scenes with the shots numbered consecutively.

Aspect ratio: it is the ratio between the width and height of an image on-screen, such as 4:3, which is the usual television screen size, or 16:9, which is wide screen.

Spectacle: in cultural theory, something that people want to look at, which attract attention.

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Escapism: the act of ‘escaping’ from reality, daily routine, drudgery etc. by using fantasy, daydreams or other absorbing entertainment

Trees and their scientific names

         Trees                                                           Scientific Names

1. Indian Laburnum                                                                        Cassia fistula

2. Beleric tree                                                                         Terminalia Bellirica

3. Nutmeg tree                                                                         Myristica Fragrans

4. Neem                                                                                  Azadirachta Indica

5. Sandal wood tree                                                                 Sandalum album

6. Tamarind tree                                                                     Tamarindus indica

7. Chaulmodgra                                                                     Hydnocarpus Kurzii

8. Rose wood                                                                        Dalbergia Latifolia

9. Jack fruit tree                                                           Artocarpus heterophyllus

10.Teak                                                                               Tectona grandis

11.Portia tree                                                                    Thespesia Populanea

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12.Medlar or Bullet wood                                                      Mimusops Elengi

13.Gulmohar or Royal Poinciana                                             Delonix regia

14.Aanjinli or Aainimaram                                                    Artocarpus nirutus

15Common fig                                                                      Ficus carica

16.Banyan tree                                                                Ficus benghalensis

17.Mahagony tree                                                         Swietenia macrophilla

18.Sacred fig                                                               Ficus religiosa

19.Acacia                                                                     Acacia arabica

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അവന്‍ പറന്നു...സ്വപ്ന ചിറകുകളോടെ...

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 കാലം കടന്നുപോയി

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അവന്റെ വരവിനായി.

    

  

  

Types of language

Journalism is a rough draft of history. A reporter’s job is to cover what happened and how it happened. They should not censor out things- should give accurate information. The language used by a journalist can be classified into three. They are Report language, Inference language and Judgement language. 

Report language

This is very dry in tone. The message conveyed through this is explicit without interpretation comment or value judgement. The language used in instruction manual is an example for report language.

Inference language

This is making a statement about the unknown on the basis of the known. 

Judgement language

This makes inference one step further. It makes value statements about the events, people or issues. It also brings rightness or wrongness in a matter.

Ethics of a journalist

1                     Journalist should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.

2                     Ethical journalists treat sources, subjects and colleagues as human beings deserving of respect.

3                     Journalists should be free of obligation to any interest other than the public’s right to know.

4                     Journalists are accountable to their readers, listeners, viewers and each other.

Eyes in communication

Down the ages people have recognized the eyes as a means of communication and have considered the look as having special significance. Looking, according to legend, has always been associated with powerful emotions and in certain situations it was forbidden. In the Bible we have the cases of Adam, who was afraid to look God after he had sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, and Lot’s wife, who turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back to see the city destroyed. In Greek mythology, Orpheus lost Eurydice because he did not keep his bargain of turning back to look at her. In our own culture, the 2000 year old Thiruvallavur Thirukkural has two chapters(71 and 110), ‘ Understanding the Other’s Mind’ and ‘Ascertaining Each Other’s Intentions’, where the importance of the face and the eyes in communication is emphasized. Urdu poetry too is replete with verses on the topic.