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American Medical Association U S News
742 wordsTobacco Advertising and its dangerous effects on young people. Tobacco Advertising Makes Young People Their Chief Target Everyday 3, 000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first lit up as teenagers (Roberts). These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in the tobacco wars. The cigarette manufacturers may deny it, but advertising and ...
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Middle And Lower Stocks And Bonds
1,367 wordsAs our economy grows and becomes more productive as well as more prosperous, it is evident that the profits only benefit a few people. The middle and lower classes seem to be the victims in Americas magnifying wealth-gap. Wealth is the abidance of valuable possessions as well as of money. The wealth-gap is the difference in income and prosperity between the rich and the poor. Our wealth-gap widens due to taxation differences, investment differences in stocks and bonds, and the unfair job opportu...
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Spread Of Disease Infectious Diseases
2,199 words... ling population? Why are these diseases emerging, and in so many different forms? There are six main causes for the emergence of infectious diseases. One of the major reasons is the rise in international travel and trade. The world is very accessible now, with airplanes and boats, a virus that is in a very isolated situation may find itself in a position to spread around the world. You could be in an African village where people may be dying like flies. Twenty four hours later youre in downt...
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Wal Mart Cigarette Ads
1,180 wordsAdvertisers main purpose is to make consumers aware of new products and services and to persuade them to buy. Granted advertising does differ from the news and entertainment media, but that doesnt mean it should not have to follow similar ethical standards. Advertising, too, should be held to the truth, as many people take it at face value and gullibly believe all or most of what is said. Although it is true that we should learn how to interpret advertising's, it is not our responsibility to int...
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Nausea And Vomiting Thousands Of Years
1,501 wordsFor many years the use of marijuana for medical purposes has been an issue of controversial discussion. Many claim that marijuana is a drug that has proven itself to be of no medical value in the treatment of terminal illnesses. Those who feel this way, usually ignore the long history of marijuana's medical uses; a history that goes back thousands of years ago. The drug has aided many people with the coping of terminal diseases. The use of marijuana as a medicinal herb has allowed many with no h...
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Enron A History And How The Company Imploded
1,282 words... and Electric Company is one of the three major utility companies in the region, along with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Company. August 14, 2001 CEO Jeff Skilling resigns stating "personal reasons. " October 12, 2001 Enron announces that it made a US $ 638 million loss during the third quarter of the fiscal year 2001. October 24, 2001 Andrew Fastow is ousted as the chief financial officer because of his involvement into questionable business transactions and pa...
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Gun Control Legislation Gun Rights Groups
2,436 wordsGun Control Columbine tragedy and countless others have added momentum to proposed gun control measures pending before Congress. Policy makers and legislators have made this issue a top priority, and are currently debating over controversial gun control policies and initiatives. The controversy over gun control revolves around two interrelated questions of government authority: does the government have the right to impose regulations; and, assuming the existence of such a right, should the gover...
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War On Drugs Alcohol Consumption
1,258 wordsFall 2000 Bootlegger: Version 2. 0 Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a mans appetite by legislation and make a crime out of things that are not a crime. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principle upon which our government was founded Abraham Lincoln On January 16, 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified by thirty-six states and became part of the Constitution. The intention of this n...
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Joe Camel Tobacco Companies
628 wordsEveryday 3, 000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first lit up as teenagers (Roberts). These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in the tobacco wars. The cigarette manufacturers may deny it, but advertising and promotion play a vital part in making these facts a reality (Roberts). The kings of these media ploys are Marlboro and Ca...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drugs In Sport
1,108 wordsDrugs in Sport Stuart Fox 4 T I am certainly a great sporting enthusiast. I love nothing more than to watch a great sporting encounter, no matter which sport. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for sportsmen and women to use substances to aid their performance. That is not to say all competitors use illegal substances, however when competitors start to use illegal substances, they ridicule the whole ethos of sport and competition. I cannot see the point of people competing when th...
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Spoke English 90 Percent Immigrants
556 wordsThe New Immigration In 1886 the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest migration in global history. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men, women, and children entered the United States. More than a million arrived in each of the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, and 1914. Not everyone had to travel in steerage. Passenge...
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Marx And Engels Sociological Theories
996 wordsGender and Child Custody Within the fabric of our society their seems to be a ideology about gender and child custody. This ideology stems from the facts about who should be the legal guardian of their son or daughter. The stereotypical views of our culture would perceive that women are more suited for the task of child development leaving the father bound to support the child. This created such movements as the fathers rights movement where they were determined to appeal to the masses by attemp...
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United States Of America Hundred Thousand
904 wordsThe Gun Control Gun Control The United States of America is the most heavily armed population in the world. There are 200 Million guns and 60 to 65 Million legal owners who have one or more guns. In the United States, more than half of the households have guns. In 1974, nearly two million guns were produced in the United States, and four hundred thousand guns were imported. In 1975, the House Judiciary Committee Report Number 94 - 1103 stated that there were about three hundred thousand actual o...
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Gun Control Advocates Gun Rights Groups
2,408 wordsBusiness Gun Control Danny Moskowitz Business Ethics 9 May 2000 The Debate Over Gun Control I chose to do my final research paper for Business Ethics on the debate over gun control. I will look at both sides of the issue, but concentrating on the side for gun control and how it might affect business ethics. In addition, I will concentrate on the policy making process and how for one to get an initiative passed for gun control how they would go about to bring about gun control. It is hard to beli...
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Gun Control Advocates Percent Of The Time
1,404 wordsDeep in the jungles of South America in the murky waters of the Amazon, lives the electric eel, although it has no malice towards any other living creature, it does have the ability to protect itself. Few public policy debates have been as dominated by emotion and misinformation as the one on gun control. Perhaps this debate is so highly charged because it involves such fundamental issues. The calls for more gun restrictions or for bans on some or all guns are calls for significant change in our...
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Metal Ions Drinking Water
2,316 wordsWater is a tasteless odorless vital element in which 90 percent of all organisms depend on to survive. It is one of the best-known ionizing agents and, is frequently called the universal solvent. Water combines with certain salts to form hydrates. It reacts with metal oxides to form acids and it also acts as a catalyst in many important chemical reactions. Not only is it essential to our health, but it is also crucial in the household and the industrial world. Every day we use water for cooking,...
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Lack Of Communication Men And Women
2,038 wordsConcept Paper # 3 May 5, 1999 Now that I have been elected to Congress for my ideas on improving the modern American family, I would like to further explain my plans to improve the modern day society and family. The two main issues that I feel are the key factors to the fall of family are child abuse and the lack of communication in marriage. I do believe that these two factors are directly related to each other think this is true because when there is a lack of communication in a marriage one p...
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Department Of Justice Bill Gates
2,043 wordsIts time to break up Microsoft Monopoly A couple of years ago, a copier company was found guilty of tying when it required consumers to purchase a maintenance plan along with its copier. Such is the case when on May 18, 1998 attorney generals from 20 states, and the District of Columbia and the US Department of Justice filed historic antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft Corporation. The US Department of Justice and 20 states are claiming Microsoft is conducting business in violation of the Sherm...
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Dsm Iv Mental Disorders
835 wordsMy presentation is on Nicotine Use Disorder. It falls under substance related disorders in the DSM IV and is defined as, The disorders related to the taking of a drug of abuse (Including Alcohol), to the side effects of a medication and to toxin exposure. Let me first start with a brief introduction of smoking (the number one nicotine related killer) and some statistical data retrieved from the US Centers For Disease Control. Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of reversible mortalities in t...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd
1,377 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder Living with Attention Deficit Disorder Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a neurobiological disorder. Recent research shows that the symptoms of ADD are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. (Rebecca Chapman Booth) With ADD there is a flaw in the way the brain manages the neurotransmitter production, storage or flow, causing imbalances. It has been suggested that as many as 80 percent of ADD cases are the result of genetics with the remainder caused by toxins, ...
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