This article deals with discourses of littering prohibition signs found in various places Indonesia, focusing on three main issues, i.e., discourse structures, pragmatic strategies, and sociocultural factors which might influence that structure strategy. Using data collected from websites those Yogyakarta Special Regency, a socio-pragmatics approach, the research finds are constructed by kinds ...

After three-quarters of a century of prohibition, Australia's cannabis industry is the same financial size as her gold industry, twice the size of her wine industry and three-quarters the size of the nation's beer industry [1, 24 June 2000 no. 32]. More Australians consume cannabis than any other illicit drug. Of the 15 million Australians aged 14 years and over, 5.7 million report having ever ...

The widespread prohibition of most recreational narcotics fuels a difficult and long-standing debate that challenges the libertarian ideals of many Western states. The issue calls to question the extent of government involvement in the lives of its constituency, weighed against the very individual freedoms of these people. Though absolute ideals about freedom help to direct policy goals, implem...

OBJECTIVE This study determined the awareness and attitude towards the Osun state prohibition of smoking in public places law. METHOD Descriptive cross-sectional study design. 520 consenting respondents recruited using a convenience sampling method were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire covering their smoking pattern, awareness and attitude towards the law of prohibition of sm...

People tend to behave inconsistently over time due to an inherent present bias. As this may impair performance, social and economic settings need to be adapted accordingly. Common tools to reduce the impact of time-inconsistent behavior are penalties and prohibition. Such tools are called commitment devices. In recent work Kleinberg and Oren [5] connect the design of a prohibition-based commitm...

Boehme and Weigel under Germany, Comenius under Czecho-Slowakia. Part II, I is works about alchemy arranged by authors, part II, 2 by subjects. Certain advantages of the new grouping are undeniable and in any case the index of names provides essential help. No opportunity seems to have been taken in facilitating the finding ofanonymous items as against previous bibliographies. For example there...

AESTKACT. This paper argues the case for the lcgalizatioii of addictive drugs such as iiiarijuaiia, cocaine, aiid licroin. It maintains that there are no “market failures” which could justify a banning of thcsc substaiiccs, and that, as in the earlier historical case of prohibition of alcohol, our present drug policy has increased crinic, decreased respect for lcgitiiriate law, and created grea...