Fig. 1 "World No Tobacco Day"
We will be looking at the different things that connect George Orwell's book 1984 to the present day.
Theme: Orwell, in his novel 1984, asserts that the government’s use of drugs on their citizens degrade the motivations of citizens and force involuntary, saccharine bliss.
1984 shows George Orwell’s depiction of a possible dystopian future filled with authoritative control over thoughts, feelings, and ideas of the citizens, a crucial vehicle through which this concrete grip is held being drugs. To many, the idea that drugs have the ability to exert influence upon the psyches, personalities, and motivations of people seems an irrational reality; the truth of the matter is that nicotine in tobacco products, more recently seen in the rapidly expanding trend of e-cigarette smoking among teenagers and young adults, has both financial and psychological effects upon American citizens. The use of e-cigarettes, now an introduction to nicotine dependency rather than an escape from it, is a contemporary example of drugs and their palpable influence upon numerous lives.