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Cigarette Smoking Unborn Babies
1,917 words... se, but long-term smoking may still permanently damage arteries. Studies continue to confirm the dangers of second-hand smoke; one study reported that exposure to second hand smoke is just as dangerous in the workplace as it is at home. Regular exposure to passive smoke is now estimated to increase the risk of heart disease in the nonsmoker by between 25 % and 91 %, causing 30, 000 to 60, 000 deaths each year. According to one report nonsmokers who spend as little as a half-hour in a smoke- ...
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Marijuana For Medical Purposes Billion A Year
1,918 wordsPrior to the twentieth century, the marijuana plant (then more commonly referred to as hemp) was the single most important industrial plant, or non-food producing crop in America and the world (German 1990). Archeologists report that marijuana was possibly the first plant cultivated by humans. They estimate that date at approximately 8000 BC (Columbia University). As early as 4000 BC, pottery with marijuana markings and hemp textiles were found in North Central China. In those years, such things...
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Male Hormone Testosterone Dangerous Side Effects
1,812 wordsShould Steroids be banned from society? Research Paper Should Steroids Be Banned From Society? Its amazing what athletes will do to achieve higher levels of performance and to get an edge on the rivaled competition. Often people do not realize the long-term effects that result from the decisions they make early in life. This resembles the obvious phenomenon with steroids. Steroids became a spreading exposure to athletes in the Olympics and other major sporting events during the 1950 s. This use ...
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Sao Paulo Raw Sewage
735 wordsWater is polluted when any harmful substance is released into the water thus contaminating or making it unsuitable for marine life to survive. 3) Pesticides 7) Litter Take a look at a picture of a polluted river in Sao Caetano do Sul in Sao Paulo, Brazil. -- -- Factory waste is made out of a wide range of of impurities including poisonous substances such as memory, cyanide and lead; and corrosive, acidic or alkaline solutions. Toxic wastes when discharged into rivers and seas pollutes and poison...
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American Medical Association Violence On Television
1,317 wordsTelevision is a pervasive and complex part of childrens lives, there are many factors that affect how much and what they view. Television is more and more becoming a curriculum. Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2, 500 studies within the last decade on over 100, 000 subjects from several nations to show that the compiled evidence of television's influence on behavior is so "overwhelming" that there is a consensus in the research community that "violence on television doe...
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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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Violence On Television Effects Of Television
932 wordsViolence on television is harmful and damaging to childrens minds. Most children watch 21 - 23 of television per week, and 3 to 5 violent acts per hour (Media Violence (RE 9526) 1). The age in which television violence starts to affect children is when they are 3 years old (Smith 2). Just as soon as they reach their mid-teens they will have seen over thousands of violent incidents and deaths in cartoons and with real people (Gonzalez 1). The most harmful violence on television was seen in cartoo...
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Grateful Dead Short Term
1,472 wordsIn a house sits a man with no mind. Heart beating, lungs wheezing, mouth agape, and eyes wide open. He is not someone who has a condition; his condition is something chooses, something that is the result of a hallucinogen. Compared to the 60 s and 70 s today's society is able to get stronger forms of hallucinogens. Stronger hallucinogens mean stronger effects. Hallucinogens take a toll on the body and the mind that a person would never think about. That's how they got the name hallucinogen. The ...
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Marilyn Manson Heavy Metal
1,314 wordsHealthy debates have been caused by today's music. Generally, foul language has rapidly increased within modern popular song lyrics, especially among rap and heavy metal artists's ong's. An increase in explicit violence and misogyny in popular music lyrics has been recorded. These lyrics have been judged to be inspirations for violent, suicidal, and criminal acts. For example, Mr. Raymond Kuntz referred to his son's incident. ''When his wife went to wake their son for school, they found him dead...
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Statistically Significant Federal Budget
1,100 wordsNever. That is the short answer, and it is a substantial claim considering the plethora of subsidies and financial support given to business by the federal and state governments today. There are several reasons why government assistance is actually harmful to the economy and they clearly explain the failure of each government assistance policy to achieve the desired goals. The main policies used to help businesses are: tariffs and other protectionist measures, tax breaks and low interest loans, ...
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Food Irradiation Drug Administration
1,755 wordsAn Epic Future in Cold Pasteurization The preservation of food is essential to maintain life and growth. Its daily intakes nourish our bodies, providing enzymes, in turn giving us energy. The ability of matter exerts radiation in its domain by means of energy in selected foods. Such rationale debates whether a development of technology creates an effective way to reduce the incidence of foodborne diseases, while treating a variety of potential problems in our food supply. An effective method of ...
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Analysis Of James Hurst The Scarlet Ibis
709 wordsDante Alighieri once said, "Avarice, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. " In the short story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, it shows how pride can be beneficial in some ways, and harmful in other ways. The story starts out as the narrator of the story has a recollection of his past when his younger brother Doodle was still alive. The narrator tells how everyone believed Doodle is crippled mentally and physically. However, Doodle is a normal human being mentall...
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Violent Games Video Games
1,458 wordsTeen getting agressive School used to be one of the safest places for teenager to be. Parents used to not worry about their kids when they were at school. These things are changing in our real life; school is not the safest place anymore. There is a lot of violence happening almost everyday in schools. Some of the violence is deadly, such as killing. There are many reasons that make teenagers to become very aggressive. One of the causes is from the media and the materials they show. The violence...
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Marilyn Manson Heavy Metal
1,291 wordsHealthy debates have been caused by todays music. Generally, foul language has rapidly increased within modern popular song lyrics, especially among rap and heavy metal artists songs. An increase in explicit violence and misogyny in popular music lyrics has been recorded. These lyrics have been judged to be inspirations for violent, suicidal, and criminal acts. For example, Mr. Raymond Kuntz referred to his sons incident. When his wife went to wake their son for school, they found him dead of a ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Put In Jail
818 wordsPrejudice comes in hundreds of ways. I cant list all of them but I can list the most important parts and say how it is harmful. Prejudice needs to stop. Im not saying its going to be easy but I wish that one day in the future there will be no prejudice. It is going to take more than individuals. It will take millions of people working together. Right now there is lots of prejudice and it is very harmful. In our life people make fun of other people constantly. If someone is not as physically appe...
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Potentially Harmful Innocent Person
2,127 wordsLicensing Parents Hugh Lafollette Would the licensing of parents be morally right and theoretically possible? According to Hugh LaFollette in his essay Licensing Parents, it is and would be both right and possible to do so. I will attempt to argue Lafollette's point by using the different scenarios and analogies presented in his essay. I will also be looking at the different objections to LaFollette s proposal and his rebuttal to each one. I will then show why I am in agreement with LaFollette a...
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Children Using The Internet Children Access On The Internet Time
689 wordsChildren and the Internet Many children nowadays use, or at least have access to the internet. But most people are blinded by all the benefits of the internet, and fail to notice any of the problems that can come from overuse. Since the internet is a new technology, not many studies have been done to determine how beneficial or detrimental it can be to children. Although the internet may have many benefits to children, it can also be very harmful to them. One of the most obvious problems with ch...
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States Quot Background Check
936 wordsEver wonder how a person not known obtains critical information once unavailable to the public? Nowadays, the easy access of computers makes it almost impossible for citizens to completely be out of the risk of privacy invasion. Anything we do is being monitored discreetly or publicly by others. Yet, there are different ways in which this issue can be viewed. It is harmful in the way that we do not know exactly what is being monitored by others, nor the way it is being used. Privacy intrusion he...
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Terminally Ill Patients Quality Of Life
1,291 wordsLegalizing marijuana for medical purposes has been a debate for many years. Many institutions have opened up to help terminally ill patients receive their dosage of marijuana. One of them being Cannabis Healing Center in California, which was shut down by the government in 1998 because selling or using marijuana for any reason is illegal no matter what. Its a violation of federal law to cultivate or distribute marijuana. Federal law supersedes state law (Marmion 2). Even though marijuana has no ...
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Ban On Human Cloning Manipulation Of Human
1,866 wordsThe discovery of cloning can be both beneficial and harmful to society. There are many reasonable methods of cloning. For instance, the use of cloning for medical purposes can be helpful in taking human DNA and creating new body parts. Because of the shortage of donors, this could become a valuable asset to our society. Cloning of human body parts can also be harmful if it gets into the wrong hands. Cloning should be controlled by the government to the extent there is no possible way it will be ...
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