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Cigarette Smoking Lung Tissue
1,899 wordsHumans are the only species that have, this urge, to inhale harmful smoke into their body. There are all types of smokers. Some smokers are casual smokers, who only smoke in a social scene, other types of smoker are depressed / stressed smokes, who smoke, because they feel that it relieves something in them, and finally there are addictive smoker, who dont know why they even started, but they cant stop. What these people dont realize is that the harm they are putting their bodies through. There ...
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Anabolic Steroids Steroid Abuse
1,474 wordsIn many parts of the world today, sports competitions are the vehicle for the fierce quest to win, to be the best. Athletes will do anything to win whether that be cheating in golf or taking steroids in order to excel in baseball. It is said that over 3 million athletes and bodybuilders have used illegal steroids in this country alone (Street 1). If many people already use steroids why not make them legal and let people take them at their own risk? Or perhaps do you think steroids should stay il...
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United States Government First Amendment
1,458 words... l harmful to minors (ACLU v. Reno II). The Child Online Protection Act is considered, a broad censorship law that severely restricts any speech on the Web that is harmful to minors, and imposes steep fines and prison terms for violators (ACLU v. Reno II). Both Congress and the President approved COPA. COPA is almost as constricting a law on the first amendment as the Communications Decency Act (ACLU v. Reno II). This unjust law was immediately subjected to a First Amendment challenge by the ...
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A Persuasive Speech Against Underage Drinking
970 wordsI. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: By a show of hands, how many people in this classroom are under the age of 21? As you look around the classroom, you will see that many of you are under this age. Now think to yourself, even though you are under the age of 21, does it mean that no one in this classroom has ever tried alcohol? According to Prof. Rosenberg from the Psychological Bulletin 1993, alcohol is the most serious problem facing teenagers. B. Link to Audience: We are all students at col...
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Coral Reefs And Algae
1,656 wordsCoral Reefs and Algae Coral reefs are unique ecological systems of the Earth Nature. These systems are very complicated and provide natural balance in the global ocean environment. Unfortunately, the human technological activity impacts coral reefs in the same harmful way as it impacts other ecological systems. Coral reefs are inhabited of approximately 25 % of marine species. They are very valuable because of their economic attractiveness through tourism and fisheries. A recent economic estimat...
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Federal Communications Commission American Medical Association
2,317 wordsViolence in the Media? Monkey see, monkey do? has become a well-known saying in today? s modern, media warped society, but is it correct? What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these, our homes, is a major source of violence. In many peoples living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the peopl...
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Genetically Engineered Foods Genetically Modified Organisms
1,333 wordsDon t Mess With My Food! Technology has been in full swing for years, but only recently have some of these developments been placed in front of us at the dinner table. The genetic engineering of food is a hot topic; that with each meal, there is the possibility that we are putting genetically modified organisms (GMO) in our mouths. These toys of technology may make the apples look bigger and juicier, but who is to say that these science experiments will not have long-term hazardous effects? Ther...
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One Can Find Illegal Drug
1,256 wordsDrugs and the Internet Since the beginning of the twentieth century, ever generation has had its own personality; its own new fad to inspire a whole new group of children and young adults, and to drive the elders crazy. The twenties had the Charleston, the fifties sported huge neon blue and pink finned automobiles. The sixties invented the hippie craze, and the seventies inspired the world with the magically funkadelic sounds of disco. The eighties were unfortunate enough to grace us with glam r...
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Drug Enforcement Agency Short Term Memory
1,057 wordsHow do we define a drug? Who makes a drug illegal and why do they make it illegal? Marijuana is considered a drug; but why is it considered a drug? In this essay I hope to persuade you that marijuana doesnt deserve the label it has been given. I will use several different examples that will prove to you that marijuana isnt as harmful as people portray it to be. This is a discussion that we have had in the past, when or culture was trying to prove that alcohol wasnt as bad as our government was t...
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Anorexia And Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa
1,265 wordsWhat Eating Disorders Eating Disorders What do you think when you hear eating disorders? You think only girls right? , wrong both males and females suffer from eating disorders. Between 10 20 percent of anorexia and bulimia survivors are male. But did you actually know that eight million Americans suffer from anorexia and bulimia. Of this eight million 85 percent of them are girls between the ages of thirteen and twenty. If this really surprises you, then just listen to this... About 40 percent ...
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Anabolic Steroids Steroid Abuse
1,502 wordsSteroids in Sports In many parts of the world today, sports competitions are the vehicle for the fierce quest to win, to be? the best. ? Athletes will do anything to win whether that be cheating in golf or taking steroids in order to excel in baseball. It is said that over 3 million athletes and bodybuilders have used illegal steroids in this country alone (Street 1). If many people already use steroids why not make them legal and let people take them at their own risk? Or perhaps do you think s...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illness
2,465 wordsInsanity the Idea and its Consequences by SzaszWell, I highly recommend Szaszs book Insanity: the Idea and its Consequences. I cant say for sure on this, but apparently there an overwhelming tendency among real doctors to define disease terms of objectively verifiable cell damage (perhaps parallel to TV-repairmen's definition of broken in terms of not turning on? ). Ive had the chance to ask one or two doctors about this, and they said that that is true, for whatever its worth. Apparently, patho...
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World Book Nervous System
1,078 wordsAn insecticide is used to kill insects. There are many kinds of insecticides, but organic insecticides are the most commonly used (World Book, 1999). Organic insecticides are split into three different categories: Chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides, organophosphate insecticides, and carbamate insecticides (World Book, 1999). In this paper, Ill explore how toxic each of these insecticides are, how they affect wildlife, humans, and the environment, and what we can do to help. WHY USE INSECTICIDE...
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Los Angeles Times Internet Addiction
3,590 wordsInvestigative Report Of Internet Addiction Prepared for Dr. Jere Mitchum By Marwan November 4, 1996 TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS... iv ABSTRACT. v INTRODUCTION... 1 Purpose. 1 Growth Of The Internet. 1 THE ADDICTION. 2 What causes it 2 Symptoms 3 How To Overcome The Addiction. 4 The elements of any addiction. 4 CONCLUSION. 8 One Last Interesting Question 9 REFERENCES. 10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure The number of networks connected to the Internet vs. Time. 2. The percentage of the Int...
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Communications Decency Act Protect Their Children
2,226 wordsWhy should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet; it can not be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would agree that children should not have access to Internet sites that are considered pornographic. Does that mean that children should not be allowed Internet access or that the Internet should not have por...
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Tobacco And Alcohol Alcohol And Tobacco
1,111 wordsWould Legalization Benefit Society? Would legalization in anyway benefit society? That is exactly the point that Benson B. Roe and William J. Olson tackle in these selections. With Benson taking the pro side and William taking the con side. In both articles they argue over the effects that the legalization of drugs would have on our American society. Benson says that drugs are no worse than tobacco and alcohol. William will actually agree with this and say that we should prohibit tobacco and alc...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse War On Drugs
2,524 wordsLegalization of Mariana: For Its time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class Americans. According to the most recent NIDA data 1, between 65 and 71 million Americans have smoked marijuana at some time in their lives, and 10 million are current smokers (have...
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Marijuana Is Legalized Influence Of Marijuana
1,523 wordsShould marijuana in Canada be legalized? The answer is no, marijuana is not a medicine, it is a health deterrent that has harmful effects. Explaining what marijuana is and how it is used is beneficial in understanding the effects. Marijuana is made up of many chemicals that as a result prove marijuana is not safe and could kill. Marijuana should and must stay illegal or our country of Canada will feel the terrible effects nationally such as sickness, injury, and death. Marijuana, used by an esti...
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Patients Suffering Abc News
639 wordsEver since it s boom in the 1960 s and 1970 s, marijuana use has been a controversial topic. Marijuana is the dried, shredded flowers and buds of the hemp plant, cannabis saliva (Monroe). It is usually rolled into marijuana cigarettes known as joints, or put into pipes and smoked. The effects of marijuana vary from user to user. Some may feel nothing when using while others, feel relaxed, intoxicated, euphoric, or tired (Yahoo). While intoxicated time seems to pass slowly, and the user becomes e...
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Male Hormone Testosterone Dangerous Side Effects
1,831 wordsTravis Redfield 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 of steroids among athletes became appar...
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