User:1a16/ The nature of influence on the health and civility of United States society

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(this sub-page is a temporal-secondary of the temporal-primary User:1a16/ - U.S. as a juvenile nation with regards to an exploratory posit: User:1a16/ - U.S. as a juvenile nation#U.S. is just in a minor civil war and nobody noticed )

c.f. User:1a16/ Culture of tobacco

The nature of influence on the health and civility of United States society previously Societal influence on the consciousness of the population of the American landmass (or forces in the psyche of the population of the American landmass ) examines the nature of

This work bears special attention to the nature of the words civilized and health (considered to belong to a wider defined word - civilization) with an expansion to considerations as indicated by the sub-page title:

Indication with consciousness by culture and creative expression of the United States

Cinema

The film The Crow (James O'Barr; Alex Proyas, David J. Schow and John Shirley) as a genius of the American spirit via the sacred clown of native American culture

The Crow (D.J. Schow and J. Shirley) with regards to the character ^[1] fun-boy (D.J. Schow and J. Shirley). ^[2][3]

Soundtrack song entitled

Nothing you can ever do... " [4]

void of consciousness in the sacred and mysteries of religions as attributable to form and emptiness in Buddhist thought, and the colour black representing darkness within the of Occidental religion; as the reality of death being a synthesis of the two factors indicated emptiness of consciousness and darkness of consciousness, with regards to the use of tobacco as a sacred substance, and experimentation with illegal drugs by adolescents as a transition from childhood, and ignorance of the existence of death, viz. rites de passage

With especial regards to and especially regarding the: International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture ... ["form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form"] (Form is emptiness and emptiness is form)

source is in Bibliography of June 9th

Darkness and death in American culture and as essential in American culture

The difference between healthy

criteria: Self-harm http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Self-injury/Pages/Introduction.aspx

User:1a16/ Gothic culture of the United States

The mystery of darkness of death, as death being a dark place, as indicated by the motif of the moth in the work of Thomas Harris with regards to the film the Silence of the Lambs

With special attention to a semantic analysis of the word Islam and the sacred lamb of Christianity and atheism in Occidental culture, and the moth as a signifier of attraction to the light being a pathological value.

source: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90121/The-Silence-Of-The-Lambs/

source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tVohAQAAIAAJ&q=Red+Dragon+Thomas+Harris&dq=Red+Dragon+Thomas+Harris&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6xN6b3rDUAhXEIsAKHfKmAREQ6AEIJzAB Thomas Harris (Dutton, 1981)

The Apache helicopter as an icon of the spiritual state of a nation of which the native language is a shared psychological value with England, as an indicative of morbidity being an influence on other nations, in which morbidity is with reference to levels of morbidity within the population of the American land-mass

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Apache+helicopter&noj=1&source=lnms&tbm=bks&biw=1600&bih=752

the - https://www.google.co.uk/search?noj=1&biw=1600&bih=752&tbm=bks&q=Apache+tribe&oq=Apache+tribe&gs_l=serp.3..0.31856.32685.0.32940.5.5.0.0.0.0.85.410.5.5.0....0...1.1.64.serp..0.5.406._fsw0053EQQ

definitions of the word civilized with reference to the possible indicative - the culture of the population of the landmass Americas, is not civilized

"marked by well-organized laws and rules about how people behave with each other" ^[5]

to indicate: how people behave with each other

"A civilized society or country has a well developed system of government, culture, and way of life and that treats the people who live there fairly" ^[6]

to indicate: treats the people who live there fairly

"If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs... If you describe a person or their behaviour as civilized, you mean that they are polite and reasonable." ^[7]

with especial indication: has sensible laws and customs

"Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, ethical, and reasonable" ^[8]

with indication:

"having laws and customs that are fair and morally acceptable" [9]

with indication: fair and

The course of the inquiry under this heading seems to be, by the evidence available (under the proceeding headings); the United States is not a civilized country with regards to its' culture and therefore society, because of a comparative of the definitions shown and the comparative between number of deaths caused by those factors indicated in the titles and sub-titles as follows.

The need for the application of reason for any given situation as a proven value in society, with regards to the responsibility of any government

This sub-heading extends form the definition civilized:

"If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs... If you describe a person or their behaviour as civilized, you mean that they are polite and reasonable." ^[10]

to

Reason is; consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. ^[11]

with reference to:

source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230618404_2 Accessed June 7th, 2017

to include:

search criteria : definitions of the word protection with regards to the functions of Government with regards to source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230618404_2

returns about 236,000,000 results (0.59 seconds using engine: Google)

The nature of freedom in comparison to, with attention to mis-understanding of the application of understanding of the concept of freedom, a comparison with conceptualization of existents of irresponsibility

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm - Accessed June 7th, 2017

World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) statements:

"the single greatest cause of preventable death in the world today"

source: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1390&context=ylpr

source: http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/fact_sheet_tobacco_en.pdf - Accessed June 7th, 2017

"deadly in any form or disguise"

http://www.who.int/tobacco/communications/events/wntd/2006/Report_v8_4May06.pdf

number of members of humanity (humans) killed by smoking tobacco (source: W.H.O.)

source: http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/fact_sheet_tobacco_en.pdf - Accessed June 7th, 2017

source shows: Kills about 5.4 million people a year

(the difference between 1 and 5.4 million)

Use of the word "kills" by the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) as an indicative of homicidal ideation at unknown source

Suggestion of homicidal source - tobacco companies, United States Government

The nature of evil as a value indicated by irresponsible cause of death with afore-knowledge by any human (as an indicative of a value of any government)

smoking of tobacco among populations of schizophrenics

source: http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/6/5/327

smoking of tobacco among populations of depressed individuals

"Tobacco smoking is extremely common in depressed patients" (Baskys, Remington 1996) ^[12]

Serial killing in the culture of the United States of America as an indicative of morbidity and the effect of this morbidity by influence on other countries in the world

anti-social personality disorder (as a classification of person made by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

Definition includes the following elements: British definition (1959) "...a persistent disorder of mind (whether or not accompanied by sub-normal intelligence) which resulted in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct..." (source: British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical guidelines) ^[13]

to indicate: seriously irresponsible conduct

Comparison to number of deaths during the Nazi Holocaust, on the basis of death by air-borne means, and anti-tobacco smoking within the Nazi party of World War two, as a value of mortalities, indicating lethality both by intentional homicide (the Nazi party) and homicide by negligence to the application of reason (the U.S. government), as indicated in definitions of civilized, (with regardfs to W.H.O. indications of number of killed per year, especially with regards to deaths directly by the smoking of tobacco or otherwise use of tobacco)

Deaths directly attributed, caused by, tobacco during the year 2004, according to the World Health organization

During 2004 about 5 million people aged thirty years and more than thirty years of age died as direct cause from tobacco (World Health organization). ^[14]

Tobacco kills more than 7 million people each year. (updated values of May 2017 World Health organization) ^[15]

Deaths via Nazi Germany during World War two

The number of dead are shown on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

deaths of people belonging to the ethnic group defined as

Civilians belonging to the population of the then Soviet Union estimates are: a number approximately as 7 million ^[17]

Non-Jewish Polish civilians - approximately 1.8 million people dead ^[18]

The nature of the soviet problem in the psychology of the United States with special attention to World Health Organisation numbers 7 million deaths by tobacco globally per year compared to 7 million deaths during the entire period defined World War 2 - as an issue of

the development of the brain with special attention to self-control as a cerebral value

sui-, homi-

sui-

smokes cigarettes - cigars - pipes - tobacco - is legal

source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suicide

homi-

is legal to own a gun - is good to own an gun - is American to own a gun - has bought a gun

sourcing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homicide

sourcing: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/worldwide-gun-control-policy/423711/

the difference between a war-zone and a civilization

sourcing:

source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-drones-strikes-civilian-deaths

source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/yemen-strike-eight-year-old-american-girl-killed-al-awlaki, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-navy-seals-yemen-raid-nawar-al-awlaki-william-ryan-owens-donald-trump-intelligence-a7558516.html

June 11th, 2017 source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201411/who-are-the-real-casualties-war

Rooting of masculinity-femininity as a value from reiteration of Mars-Venus cultural tradition of ancient Rome, as Mars is man for woman to be a woman, with respect to gun-ownership in the landmass Americas

sourcing:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fOrU48-804UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=women+are+from+venus+men+are+from+mars&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=0ahUKEwjs5Z-m16vUAhUqDcAKHUj6BycQ6AEIIjAA#v=onepage&q=women%20are%20from%20venus%20men%20are%20from%20mars&f=false (1st edition 1993)

"...best-selling relationship book of all time..."

1st edition - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W9_UECpgmQ8C&dq=women+are+from+venus+men+are+from+mars&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=0ahUKEwjs5Z-m16vUAhUqDcAKHUj6BycQ6AEIKDAB

http://www.gwi-boell.de/en/2010/07/30/stereotyped-gender-images-war-and-peace

search return (using google): https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=ie7&q=Mars&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7LENP&gfe_rd=cr&ei=UOo3WaXEHuvR8gf83YWACA&gws_rd=ssl#q=man+as+masculinity+is+warlike&spf=1496866966604

Mars is god of War. ^[19][20]

Venus, Goddess of Love ^[21]

sourcing: Stainton Rogers, Wendy, Stainton Rogers, Rex - The Psychology Of Gender And Sexuality: An Introduction p. 52- McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 1 January 2001

citeria: psychology The mars stereotype

the United States of America and the war against terrorism

(if numbers are true) Comparitive of (rounded-up or down) number of deaths 2001-2014 War Afghanistan (153' 800), to 2001-2013 death by gun-shot as homicide within the boundaries of the United States not classified as acts of terrorism (156'000 people)

Number due to ownership of a gun as a risk to the population of the civilization of the people of the land-mass of the Americas

Estimated number of guns per capita by country: World map of civilian gun ownership

Number of deaths caused by murder / homicide where the cause of death was gun-shot (figure rounded up or down) :

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/04/us/gun-violence-graphics/index.html

156'000 people (figure; number rounded up or down)- died of homicide within the U.S. period: 2001 - 2013

Gun ownership

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” ^[22]

number of deaths during the Afghan War (if the number is true)

Source: http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/afghan (Page updated as of August 2016)

6,800 US service members

43,000 uniformed Afghans, Iraqis and other allies have died as of May 2014.

104,000 Afghan civilians

total deaths 153' 800 (Afghan civilians, U.S. military, Afghan military)

supporting for number, might be; is, true

(report states 24'841 civilians killed since 2009 - source: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-afghanistan-report-children-killed-20170206-story.html - Accessed June 7th, 2017)

the death penalty as co-morbidity

source: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-united-states

number of deaths as of June 7th 2017, not beyond

1491 executions by the state since 1976 - that is people whose cause of death is death by the state not for instance by gun-shot instead as a secondary value

death by fatal wounding by stabbing as a co-morbidity

source: https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html

Homicide Cut/pierce Deaths 2000 - 2015, United States 30,426 deaths in 15 years (of a total population - number is for total population for all years between 2000 - 2015 - 4,837,059,821)

suicide by gun-shot

Figures (CNN) rounded up or down

approximately 244, 000 (years 2001 - 2013)

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/04/us/gun-violence-graphics/index.html

Difference in - suicide is intentionally to take one's own life, and suicide where alcohol is a secondary factor of the gun-shot cause suicide

source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suicide

Smith, Branas, & Miller, 1999 - more than one third of the most deaths by suicide involved someone under the influence of alcohol

"The majority of completed suicides involve guns (Branas, Nance, Elliott, Richmond, & Schwab, 2004; Singh & Siahpush, 2002) and over one third of these gun suicides involve alcohol (Smith, Branas, & Miller, 1999)" (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3989496/)

Alcohol is a depressant, and alters consciousness

source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Iz9pkXPPPEgC&pg=PA70&dq=Alcohol+causes+altered+consciousness&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFvZSn_rDUAhXCK8AKHZXCDn8Q6AEIJzAB#v=onepage&q=Alcohol%20causes%20altered%20consciousness&f=false

source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GU30W5HfbjwC&pg=PA83&dq=alcohol+is+depressant&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWiOra_qvUAhVMB8AKHcsTCjgQ6AEIJzAB#v=onepage&q=alcohol%20is%20depressant&f=false - Accessed June 7th, 2017

source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ipQmSriMF9sC&pg=PA717&dq=alcohol+is+depressant&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiawauV_6vUAhXKJMAKHT53AnYQ6AEINDAD#v=onepage&q=alcohol%20is%20depressant&f=false - Accessed June 7th, 2017

Restricting access to the means of suicide as a strategy for suicide prevention

source: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/9/07-043489/en/ (V Ajdacic-Gross, MG Weiss, M Ring, U Hepp, Matthias Bopp d, F Gutzwiller, W Rössler)

Number of children killed by gun-shot within the landmass Americas (as an indicative of a responsible government)

search return: https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=ie7&q=killing+as+contrary+to+the+species&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7LENP&gfe_rd=cr&ei=Br83WfzhHLT38AeIvI_YDQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=number+of+deaths+of+children+within+U.S.+due+to+gun-shot&spf=1496855427527

year 2014, 2,549 children (age 0 to 19 years) died by gunshot. (The Children's Hospital of Philidelphia) ^[23]

2015, 2799 (Children's Defense Fund ^[24] - Marian Wright Edelman))

including source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/10/14/ap-usa-today-gun-accidents-children/91906700/ - Accessed June 9th, 2017

Indicating the culpability of the government of the United States of America and, or, an otherwise currently unidentified possible irresponsible organized body

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safeguarding-children-and-young-people/safeguarding-children-and-young-people

criteria of search are: definitions of the word Protection with regards to the functions of Government

Terrorism as a problem and the problem of terrorism; which acknowledges terrorism causes terror, indicating the problem or terror caused by terrorism being risk of death, or, terror resulting from possibly being dead

Death is inevitable. ^[25]

Gun-ownership as a possible cause of underlying normalized terror in the population of the United States with regards to the work of W.B. Cannon

Number of homicides United States of America: 156'000 people - died of homicide within the U.S. period: 2001 - 2013 (source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/04/us/gun-violence-graphics/index.html)

additional sources: https://www.psychologistworld.com/stress/fight-or-flight-response, https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~berczii/hans-selye/walter-cannon-fight-or-flight-response.html University of Manitoba

Definition of the word: civilian

First definitions listed:

"a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization..." ^[26]

"A person not in the armed services or the police force..." ^[27]

possible indication: armed

"a person who is not a member of the police or the armed forces..." ^[28]

possible indication: armed forces

"A person who is not an active member of the military, the police, or a belligerent group in a conflict." ^[29]

1st definition: "a specialist in Roman or modern civil law..." ^[30]

"Civilians are persons who are not members of the armed forces. The civilian population comprises all persons who are civilians." ^[31]

possible indication: armed forces

definition of: armed

1st definitions listed:

"furnished with weapons  : using or involving a weapon" ^[32]

"using or carrying weapons" ^[33]

"bearing firearms; having weapons" ^[34]

"Equipped with or carrying a firearm or firearms." ^[35]

"carrying a weapon, especially a gun" ^[36]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/armed, http://thelawdictionary.org/armed/

"The armed forces or the armed services of a country are its military forces, usually the army, navy, marines, and air force." ^[37] indicative: usually does not indicate exclusively

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ^[38]

Military weapons training

spf=1497211665316 sourcing: criteria: military weapon training psychology

spf=1497211665321 sourcing: criteria: Post traumatic stress military killing civilians

spf=1497211665323 criteria: burglar killed by gun-shot,

spf=1497211665325 criteria: burglar killed by gun-shot

spf=1497211665329 criteria: military killing civilians psychology

http://ftp.iza.org/dp5615.pdf - The Psychological Costs of War:

https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/92234 - The moral psychology of killing in war H.M. Watkins 2016

http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth5_1199.htm

http://www.alternet.org/story/60297/war_psychiatry_and_iraq_atrocities%3A_how_killing_becomes_a_reflex author: Penny Coleman - War Psychiatry and Iraq Atrocities: How Killing Becomes a Reflex Modern American military training methods can turn off the switch that controls a human being's inherent aversion to killing.

The United States and the War against Drugs

United States governmental policy on tobacco is the same or worse than policy within organized criminal networks on the basis of evidence of deaths caused by tobacco, and the promotion of tobacco by sales

"the single greatest cause of preventable death in the world today"

source: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1390&context=ylpr

source: http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/fact_sheet_tobacco_en.pdf - Accessed June 7th, 2017

Tobacco as the gate-way drug

Is legal - is the entire argument, and conclusion.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/news-releases/2011/11/nih-study-examines-nicotine-gateway-drug (NIH study - November 02, 2011) - Accessed June 7th, 2017

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm Centres for Disease control and prevention - Accessed June 7th, 2017

tobacco users far more likely (Lai S et al) to use cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana (Lai S, Lai H, Page JB, McCoy CB 2000)

In a study of

source: Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses - Accessed June 7th, 2017

70% of the total number of people asked would quit tobacco

In U.S. national polls (circa 2014), of the total number asked in polls the proportion of 70% of the total number of people asked would like to

tobacco is addictive - source: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tobacco-and-cancer/why-people-start-using-tobacco.html - Accessed June 7th, 2017

criteria: Addiction as a psychological negative

main source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/

additional source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310.pdf

third:

Identification of the void of consciousness in the sacred and mysteries of religions as attributable to form and emptiness in Buddhist thought, and the colour black representing darkness within the of Occidental religion; as the reality of death being a synthesis of the two factors indicated emptiness of consciousness and darkness of consciousness, with regards to the use of tobacco as a sacred substance, and experimentation with illegal drugs by adolescents as a transition from childhood, and ignorance of the existence of death, viz. rites de passage

With especial regards to and especially regarding the: International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture ... ["form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form"] (Form is emptiness and emptiness is form)

source is in Bibliography of June 9th

The difference between healthy

criteria: Self-harm http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Self-injury/Pages/Introduction.aspx

The nature of tobacco smoking as a current practice of the culture of the United States understood as abuse not use

The first reactions to tobacco use in Europe were primarily focused on its narcotic effects.^[44]

King James I

In its original form, tobacco had both honor and purpose. The chemical additives found in commercial tobacco take away from tobacco's original purpose in Aboriginal ceremonies. Smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco have no connection to Aboriginal spirituality.

— Aboriginal Tobacco Program (americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov) [46]^[47]

See also

• Anti-gun movement
• Anti-tobacco
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Sources