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Tobacco Companies Harmful Effects
1,131 words... ign money if they challenged tobacco. Tobacco companies also exerted influence against anti-tobacco politicians by contributing to their competitors campaigns. Generous awards, special interest money, and jobs after public service sweetened the deal and bought silence and inactivity on legislative bills for many years. Now public awareness and the media make tobacco supporters less popular. Congress has a moral and public policy duty to prevent smoking in children (Common Cause, 1 - 2). The ...
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Billion Per Year Secondhand Smoke
855 wordsSmoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. During 1995, approximately 2. 1 million people in developed countries died as a result of smoking. One tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. Lung Cancer mortality are about 23 times higher for current male smokers and 13 times higher for current female smokers compared to a lifelong never-smoker. In addition to being responsible for 87 % of lung cancers, smoking is also associated with cancers...
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Long Lasting Effects Snyder 1985 P
1,920 wordsIn this report I will show you my views on Marijuana, if it should be legal, for medical and / or recreational purposes. Marijuana has many names: Dope, Marihuana, Ganja, Pot Mary Jane, Cannabis Sativa (Scientific) to name a few. Marijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China plays an important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinese physician to use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller and anesthetic for surgery. In the Ninth Century B. C. , it was used a...
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Illegal Drug Blood Pressure
585 wordsMarijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe, bong, or rolled in a joint. Thirty-seven percent of people between ages 12 - 17 have tried marijuana. Marijuana gives a slight buzzing feeling of light-headedness. Experimentation with marijuana is dangerous because studies show that 60 % of people who smoke marijuana on a regular basis move on to try harder drugs soon after. Marijuana tends to diminish the ambition and motivation in...
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Reefer Madness Illicit Drugs
1,411 wordsIn high school when I first learned about the alluring world of illegal pharmaceuticals, I was scared. My fear was based on all my prior knowledge of drugs was from government propaganda and popular beliefs. Now Im older, and more experienced about drugs. When did the America first begin to be wildly afraid of a plant that has been on this continent since our forefathers ()? Americas fear of illicit drugs can be as far traced back as the prohibition era of the early 20 th century. Pot, a nicknam...
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Risk Of Developing Fruits Vegetables
517 wordsDiet and Cancer What is the Link? Today we know that too much of a certain type of foods can have harmful effects on our health and well-being and we are learning that diseases such as cancer are caused in part by our dietary choices. In the 1950 s scientists discovered relationship between diet and coronary heart disease, the nations number one killer. In the last 15 year a link between cancer and diet has been discovered by scientists. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an organization of...
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Made Me Feel Quit Smoking
1,054 wordsWhy I Quit Smoking My mother works as an elderly care specialist at Delray Beach Retirement Center in Florida. I often visit her at work when I? m on vacation in Florida. Of all the times I have visited her at the retirement center, I will never forget the day I met Mr. Wilson. Despite his age of sixty-five, Mr. Wilson? s health was the equivalent of a ninety year old. After meeting Mr. Wilson, I would try to visit my mother at the Retirement Center during the time she was caring for him. Mr. Wi...
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Heroin Addicts Heroin Addiction
1,474 wordsHeroin abuse is a serious national problem, one that is increasing everyday. More and more middle class, suburban adolescents and adults have turned to heroin as their drug of choice. In addition, heroin related deaths have skyrocketed within the last few years. With heroin on the rise in so many areas of the country it is important to know and understand the effects and consequences that heroin use and abuse can have. First and foremost, it is significant to understand what heroin is and where ...
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Philip Morris Tobacco Industry
628 wordsDid 1960 s TV Influence Kids To Smoke? Jurors Spent The Day Looking At Examples Of Cigarette Placement In Vintage TV Clips The Latest | The Players | They Said It The Paperwork | The Archives: How We Got Here | The Front Page ST. PAUL, Posted 5: 28 p. m. March 09, 1998 One woman juror kept time with the music as the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies was played Monday in Minnesota's tobacco trial to show how cigarettes were marketed to youth. In the introduction to the television show, Jed Clamp...
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Marijuana For Medical Medical Use Of Marijuana
1,122 wordsIn the late 1970 s, Susan Nelson watched her husband, Don, vomit constantly. Don was undergoing chemotherapy to treat his testicular cancer. The body rejects the drugs used in chemotherapy by means of vomiting. The constant vomiting caused Don further tissue damage than he already had. In 1989, Susan discovered she had lymphoma. Susan also went under chemotherapy, but during her whole treatment she only vomited once. Why do you think this is? She took matters into her own hands: she fired up a j...
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Marijuana As Medicine Evidence That Marijuana
992 wordsMarijuana Legalization Of Marijuana Marijuana Marijuana is the most profitable and versatile plant in the world, yet it is illegal. Tobacco and alcohol have no medicinal values, but they are legal. Where as marijuana has thousands of positive uses and it is illegal. Marijuana should be made legal for its many positive therapeutic, environmental, and economic effects. Marijuana can ease the symptoms of many different diseases and disorders. Smoking marijuana can improve symptoms associated with c...
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Coronary Heart Disease Risk Of Developing
430 wordsAn estimated 146, 000 Americans died of lung cancer in 1992, and 90 percent of these deaths were caused by cigarette smoking. Smoking is responsible for about 30 percent of all cancer deaths annually in the United States more than 155, 000 each year. If smoking-related cancers could be eliminated from our society, we would see a significant decline in the annual cancer death rate instead of small but steady increases. Since 1964, the year of the Surgeon Generals first report on the health risks ...
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Iron Ore Grand Duke
1,024 wordsLocation Luxembourg is located Luxembourg Luxembourg Location Luxembourg is located in Europe and is bordered by Belgium, Germany and France. On a map, it is located at 50 N latitude and 6 E longitude. Luxembourg is very small. It is only 998 square miles, which is roughly the size of Orange County, California. All the country is inhabited, with most people living in the southern part. The Flag The flag of Luxembourg was adopted in 1845. The colors come from the Coat of Arms of Luxembourg and ar...
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Make The Person Long Term Marijuana
495 wordsMarijuana Marijuana is the name given to any drug made from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. Different forms of this drug are known by different names all around the world. Some of these names are kif in Morocco, data in South Africa, and ganja in India. In the last decade marijuana has gotten many street names like grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, and Mary Jane. Marijuana has been smoked, eaten in cakes, and drunk in beverages. Most often marijuana is made as a tobacco like mixture that is smoked...
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Makes It Hard Smoking Marijuana
683 wordsMarijuana is Marijuana 3 MARIJUANA Marijuana is the third most valuable cash crop in the U. S. Many people harvest it in Mexico. A few years ago money was made excessively from the importation of this drug. The money made was about 15 billion dollars. Most people think that Marijuana, Mary Jane, is addictive. Researchers now say that Marijuana is not addictive, and it soothes and relaxes the body. Marijuana s scientific name is Cannabis Sativa. It is one of the oldest mind altering drugs used. H...
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Smoke Marijuana Harder Drugs
1,265 wordsWhether you call it hemp, mary jane, pot, or weed it doesnt matter. It is still Cannabis Sativa, or cannabis for short and it is still illegal. The use of marijuana as an intoxicant in the United States became a problem of public concern sometime during the 1930 s. Laws were passed in 1937 instituting criminal penalties for possession and sale of the drug. The word marijuana refers to the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, which contains the non-narcotic chemical delta- 9 -tetrahydr...
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Schedule I Drug Period Of Time
926 wordsMairjuana is a drug that has been with us for quite awhile. It was used in ancient China and India for pain relief, tension relief and anxiety problems. Over the course of time, the drug made its way from other countries, such as India and China, and came to the US. A user of this drug will feel the effects anywhere from a few seconds of smoking it to about ten minutes. Its chemicals go into the lungs, then get dispersed into the bloodstream. The user then gets a feeling of being high or stoned....
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706 wordsDetailed Outline and Working Bibliography I. Introduction A. Main Ideas 1. History of marijuana 2. Effects of marijuana 3. Why teens use marijuana 4. What marijuana looks like 5. What if someone wants to stop using it 6. Statistics B. Thesis statement: Marijuana will effect the way high school students act and learn in school. II. History of Marijuana A. First known in Central Asia and China 3000 B. C. 1. Known as Cannabis Sativa 2. Came from tropical and temperate climates B. Seen in America? s...
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Higher Doses North America
630 wordsMarijuana is the common name given to any drug preparation from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. Various forms of this drug are known by different names throughout the world, such as kif in Morocco, data in South Africa, and ganja in India. In Western culture, cannabis preparations have acquired a variety of slang names, including grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, and Mary Jane. Cannabis can be smoked, eaten in cakes, and drank in beverages. In Western cultures marijuana is prepared most often as a...
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Knight Ridder Tribune Gale Group
1,728 wordsWhat is a rave? A rave usually refers to an all night party, open to the general public, where loud techno music is mostly played and many people can partake in a number of different chemicals (Official). Raves are fairly decent and you dont hear much about them on the streets. Yet some people who go to the raves try to sell their drugs to ravers and thats what makes the word rave so bad. Because of those people Mayor Daley has planned crack down on jailing building owners and managers who let t...
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