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Cigarette Smoke Lung Cancer
453 wordsEmphysema-Emphysema is a disease that causes the alveoli (the tiny air sacs where the air meets the blood in your lungs) not to work properly. This means not as much oxygen can get into the blood of the person, and it makes breathing difficult. Because the blood isn't getting as much oxygen as it is supposed to, the body cells aren't getting the oxygen they need to release the energy in food. A person with emphysema can't exercise at all, because the lungs aren't able to supply enough oxygen. A ...
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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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Asthma Is A Disease Shortness Of Breath People
507 wordsAsthma is a disease in the lungs, resulting in a shortness of breath. It involves feelings of breathlessness, and wheezing. Wheezing is a whistling sound from the chest when breathing in or out. People also may feel suffocation and shortness of breath, when experiencing an asthma attack. Asthma sufferers usually breathe normally, and attacks are unwarranted and usually by surprise. It is estimated that 1 out of 20 people have asthma, but 1 out of 10 children have it. Asthma is a disease where no...
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South Bronx Alcohol Abuse
1,952 wordsAt first glance, it seems that the author is going to take us on yet another journalistic ride through the land of the poor. Similar to the ones you read about, or hear in the news. However, this is not the case; the real underlying theme is what is society doing about the plight of the poor? Kozol uses the views of children to emphasize that these reports on living conditions are not being obtained by disgruntled adults, but from innocent children whose only misfortune was being born to this pa...
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Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara
1,464 wordsChe Guevara was the Argentine born Marxist guerrilla who helped oust the corrupt Cuban government and set up a communist system 90 miles from the US. Che under the leadership of Fidel Castro helped lead a small guerrilla band of soldiers to take over the country. After the old government was out Che helped Castro decide communism as the way to go for Cuba. He helped Castro try to quickly industrialize the country, set up social reforms to try, and make Cuba a better place for its citizens. Che s...
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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,799 wordsIntroduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution, the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them have ever known. In this book...
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Year Old Boy Psychotic Episodes
1,559 words... , consistent with prior animal and human data on response to acute LSD administration which suggest LSD-induced cortical dis inhibition... " confirming the disruption of the sensory pathways. (Abraham & Duffy, 1996) Further still, there was another study where several young people who had occasionally taken LSD developed palinopsia, a condition under HPPD where damage to the nondominant pareto-occipital cortex can cause prolonged afterimages even after the cessation of LSD usage. In the case...
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Aggressive Driving Road Rage
1,432 wordsAsthma Research Paper Asthma is a chronic illness that affects many people. Asthma affects approximately 155 million people around the world. The pharmaceutical industry approximates $ 5. 5 billion in sales for asthma medication per year for a condition that is incurable. Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways. The narrowing of airways occurs due to inflammation and excessive mucous secretion. The constriction of the airway gives rise to common asthmatic symptoms of wheezing, coughing,...
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Is There Any Medical Potential For Marijuana
1,281 words... ea tivity and provides insight. 'It's a source of positive pleasure' (Abel 186). And if that is all the sick patients' experience in the last days of their lives, then so be it. Bibliography Abel, Ernest L. Ph. D. Scientific Study of Marijuana. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976, 177 - 196. Dickinson, Ben. 'What if weed is exactly what you need?' Esquire; Oct. 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Forbes, Steve. 'Deadly deceit. ' Forbes; Sep. 8, 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Johnso...
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Low Birth Weight Nitrogen Dioxide
1,290 wordsAir Pollution Air pollution is one of the most dangerous problems of our times. Problems caused by pollution can be local and minor because of the Earth's own ability to absorb pollutants. The industrialization of society, the introduction of motorized vehicles, the explosion of the population are factors sharpening the growing air pollution problem. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter belong to pollutants found in most urban areas. These pollutants are dispersed throughout t...
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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,825 wordsKozol's Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Kozols Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life Introduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is nor...
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Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara
1,490 wordsErnesto? Che? Guevara Che Guevara was the Argentine born Marxist guerrilla who helped oust the corrupt Cuban government and set up a communist system 90 miles from the US. Che under the leadership of Fidel Castro helped lead a small guerrilla band of soldiers to take over the country. After the old government was out Che helped Castro decide communism as the way to go for Cuba. He helped Castro try to quickly industrialize the country, set up social reforms to try, and make Cuba a better place f...
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Blood Vessels Side Effects
480 wordsCreatine is Creatine 2 Creatine Creatine is a substance that is used in athletics; it has both good and horrible effects. The effects of Creatine might include faster development of the muscles in your body, but the side effects can be drastic and are said to be extremely dangerous. Yet this product is still legal? Why? Who knows, but the point is clear that this can hurt the body. This substance isnt even FDA approved and they are even saying it is still in the experimental stage, yet thousands...
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Affective Disorder Quot Dickinson
5,102 wordsIs There Any Medical Potential for Marijuana? Marijuana is one of the oldest cultivated plants (Nahas 8). Since it became illegal in 1967, there have been questions of whether or not it is good for purposes, such as medicine, other than being a leisure drug. Debates between pro and con groups for the use of marijuana in the medical profession, have been heated and in recent months, referendums have been pasted in a least three states to make it accessible for medical treatment. Personally, I fee...
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Target Heart Rate Blood Vessels
2,314 wordsAsthma is a pulmonary disease with the following characteristics: 1) airway obstruction that is reversible in most patients either spontaneously or with treatment; 2) airway inflammation; and 3) increased airway responsiveness to a variety of stimuli (Enright, 1996, p. 375). There presently exist many varieties of asthma that differ in the severity, means of induction, and methods of treatment. One type is exercise-induced asthma. Exercise-induced asthma (EIA) is a temporary increase in airway r...
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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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Range Of Motion Colleges And Universities
969 wordsDebating the Practices of Physical Therapy What is there to debate? Several sources repeatedly convey similar information on the care that a physical therapist provides. The Handbook of Physical Therapy, written by Robert Shestack, Current Physical Therapy, a book by Malcolm Peat, and A Future in Physical Therapy, an internet publication by The American Physical Therapy Association, have notably parallel information within them. However, small variations can be found in their writings. Physical ...
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Chronic Sinus Infections Nose Is A Organ Sense
634 wordsThe The Nose The Nose The nose is a organ used for breathing and smelling that is found in the center of the face above the mouth. In this report you will learn about how it works, and things that can affect it. At the end of the nose there is a pair of nostrils, these allow you to breathe in air and exhale it. At the end of the nostrils comes the nasal cavity. Going farther up, the cavities divide into 3 shelf-like bones called nasal concha or turbinates these warm inhaled air. From there the s...
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Privately Owned Commerce Clause
627 wordsShaw 2 Smoking Prohibited with Minors in Vehicles Children do not have a choice whether or not an adult smokes while driving a vehicle. According to Chest magazine, 4. 8 million American children have been diagnosed with asthma. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta report that in 1993, 159, 000 children under the age of fifteen were hospitalized for acute asthma, and 5, 300 people died. The American Lung Association states that the annual health care cost for asthma is 12. 6 billion dollar...
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