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Fire Department Metropolitan Areas
764 wordsFIREFIGHTER TODAY Firefighting is one of the worlds most honored but hazardous occupations. It is the duty of every fire department to practice life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation. Whenever and wherever an emergency arises, the fire department is one of the first called and to respond. In todays fire service the fire department has an expanded roll that involves more than just fires. The emergencies involve accidents, aircraft crashes, water rescues, hazardous material...
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788 wordsAccording to a 1988 government survey, marijuana is the third most widely used drug used in the United States, after alcohol and cigarettes. An estimated 66 million people - or one-third of all Americans - have tried marijuana; and roughly 12 million of them are current users. # Marijuana is an illegal drug that is grown throughout the world. It is used for medical treatments, pleasure, and things we use and see today. It also has many side effects, health hazards, and health issues. Marijuana i...
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Substance Abuse Drug Abuse
714 wordsCollege: Lecturer: Course: Date: The GAO report According to the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Protection Service is falling short of its responsibilities. Its ascribed task, and hence mission, is to provide protection to some 8, 800 federal facilities around the US. However, due to a progressive reduction in workforce, the FPS can no longer provide this service adequately. From the fiscal year of 2004 to that of 2007 for example, the workforce within FPS reduced by 20 % from 1, ...
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Phone While Driving Cell Phone
1,079 wordsDangers of Cell Phone Use The use cellular phone has extended like wild fire in the recent decade. It has become an integral part of everyday life for many American citizens, and a great number of people depend on them to perform daily operations. Unluckily, many of these daily operations take place while the individual is driving. Cell phones and other kinds of wireless communication also generate distractions and boost a drivers risk on the road. The use of cell phones create a risk for societ...
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Long Term Effects Makes A Person
444 wordsBrief Health Report Smoking is one of the major health dangers that might affect contemporary students, and since I was smoking at some point of my life, I believe that it did affect my health. Health can be defined as an overall condition of ones organism, the harmony between all of its parts that results in efficient functioning of any human being. (Weizner, p. 45) Now that I have quit smoking, I can see both short term and long term effects of it. I was a subject to the shirt term effects, an...
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Third World Countries Child Labour
642 wordsChild Labour in Third World Countries Child labour is the employment of children as money earners. It became a serious social problem in the Industrial Revolution in Britain during the 1700 s, and the problem spread to other countries as they became industrialized. The problem arose when children, many below the age of 10, were employed by factories and mines. The youths were forced to work long hours under dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and their wages were very small. Child workers were o...
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Second Hand Smoke Smoking In Public Places
723 wordsFor Cigarette Smoking Cigarette Smoking For a long time now many people have different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. On the other hand non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and endanger there life. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other serious illnesses. Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. A substantial number of lung cancers that occur in non-smokers can be attributed to involun...
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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,282 words1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering a reformulated gasoline program as a substitute for most of the alternate fuel proposals. As a result, the amendments to the federal Clean Air Act adopted in 1990 required steps to achieve lower vehicle emission...
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Bureau Of Labor Statistics Bureau Of Labor Eye
249 wordsEye Safety at Work Recently the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has undertaken new initiatives to diminish eye injuries at work... OSHA has plans to set in motion a nationwide information campaign to decrease the over 1, 000 eye injuries that occur in American workplace each year. These eye injuries were caused often by flying or falling objects or sparks striking the eye. Contact with chemicals and objects such as tree limbs, ropes, chains, or tools were also major causes. ...
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Ozone Layer Ultraviolet Radiation
1,135 wordsEnvironmental Concerns: The Depletion Of The OzoneEnviormental Concerns: The Depletion Of The Ozone Layer Environmental Concerns: The Ozone Layer By David Wood Everyday millions of people are exposed to an invisible danger. An unseen danger that can cause horrible and drastic effects. Something so horrible that without prevention could lead to a horrible future. This danger is the depleting of the Ozone Layer. As it gets thinner and thinner more and more harmful UV rays will pass into our atmosp...
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Yorba Linda Area Placentia
256 wordsHazards in Placentia Earthquakes are probably the number one hazard that affects my area. I live about six to seven miles from the Whittier Fault and about 16 - 18 miles from the Newport Inglewood Fault. Just about a week or two ago, we experienced an earthquake around 2: 30 a. m. Though nothing was damaged, I still noticed some effects from it. The ceiling fan was shaking around a lot and some car alarms were sounding. If a big earthquake were to hit Placentia, I think my house would be prepare...
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Second Hand Smoke Passive Smoking
552 wordsHazards of Smoking Smoking refers to the practice of inhaling smoke from the burning tobacco in a pipe, cigar, or most commonly, a cigarette. Smokers feel relaxation because tobacco contains nicotine that is very addictive to a person who smokes. Smoking causes numerous hazards, which include: cancers, second hand smoke problems, and problems in pregnancy. Cancers of the lung, breast, prostate and colon and rectum have become more frequent in countries with risk factors such as cigarette smoking...
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Coronary Artery Disease 20 Th Century
952 wordsThere are many things today which cause us harm. One can spend virtually an entire day listing the hazards faced by modern society. However, none of these hazards are as deadly as a habit millions of Americans bring on themselves twenty to thirty times a day. Smoking is the cause of a multitude of medical problems that plague not only the individual smoker, but everyone else as well. Smoking is defined as the inhaling and exhaling of the fumes of burning plant material, especially tobacco, from ...
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Informative Entertainment Speech Talking About Drinking Decided
1,106 wordsInformative/Entertainment Speech The Hazards Of Drinking Informative/Entertainment Speech The Hazards Of Drinking And Walking BEER! Oh my god, I love beer. I could drink it all day and all night. Beer, wine, vodka, rum, whiskey, anything with an alcohol content I could guzzle in an instant. But that does get dangerous, and Im not talking about drinking and driving. Im talking about drinking and walking. Take, for example, the man in West Virginia, who was at a party drinking, and managed to blow...
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Effects Of Marijuana Anti Drug
1,439 wordsIs Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health? Recreational use of marijuana has been going on for many years, and like cigarettes many people refuse to listen to health reports. More and more reports are coming out on the effects of marijuana on the body. Just how harmful marijuana can be is questionable. Some health reports state that it is very detrimental to the body while others are explaining how chemicals extracted from the marijuana plant are being used as medication. The problem is, ju...
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Billions Of Years Volcanic Eruptions
367 wordsPlanet Earth is our home in space. It is a planet of continuous changes that started billions of years ago and that will continue for billions of years to come. Sometime the earth undergoes changes or movements that are rapid and effect our environment and safety. These rapid changes are known as natural disasters. These include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons (hurricanes), tsunamis, floods, droughts, fires, and other events which are indications of interactions of mass and energy on t...
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Tobacco Companies Tobacco Industry
766 wordsThe tobacco companies have been getting a lot of bad reviews lately. They are being sued for millions of dollars for smokers Medicaid bills. I do not understand why they are being sued. The tobacco companies are only trying to make a living like everyone else. Warning labels are put on cigarette packs, and everyone knows about the hazards of smoking. People make the decision to smoke, so why should the tobacco companies take the blame? Tobacco use, along with the association of its danger, has b...
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Protection Agencies Port Arthur
1,000 wordsSlaughter 1 English 1301 - 020 Mr. Sanborn 19 November 98 Polluting America Do you ever wonder what you are inhaling into your lungs? Are you concerned? When you drive past large chemical plants, do you see the large amounts of smoke continuously being released into the air? Did you realize that the pollution released is probably more than legally released? Many people do not consider the danger we are in. We are breathing chemicals into our lungs that harm our bodies and organs. Many industrial...
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Second Hand Smoke Lung Cancer
1,130 wordsSmoking. What is it? Is it safe? What is in it? All these questions constantly appear in the minds of the world s youth. In due time, you will begin to discover the truths and myths of smoking both marijuana and tobacco. Many people wonder about the actual hazards of smoking. Some think that all the stuff that they see is what really happens. Not quite. Sometimes you might wonder what that is you re smoking. If so, do you even know what s in it? What is second hand smoke? Is it even dangerous? W...
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19 Th Century Learn To Swim Swimming
485 wordsSwimming Swimming is the act of moving through the water by using the arms, legs, and body in motions called strokes. The most common strokes are the crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and sidestroke. Some scientists believe that human beings are born with an instinctive ability to use their arms and legs to stay afloat. That instinct, however, disappears within a few months after birth. Later in life many children and adults learn to swim in order to be safe around the water, to have f...
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