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Drug Addiction Negative Reinforcement
4,209 words... ve drugs. The Addiction Research Center Inventory, an empirically derived test designed to measure the subjective effects of addictive drugs, detects the mood-elevating effects of psychomotor stimulants and opiates on the same scale (see Haertzen and Hickey 1987). On the other hand, the subjective-effects of these two drug classes can be easily distinguished. This is not surprising considering that ex-addicts report a preference for heroin over morphine (Martin and Fraser 1961), even though ...
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American Cancer Society People Who Smoke
1,883 wordsSmoking and Chewing By: Trevor Glover Tobacco is a plant grown for its leaves that are smoked, chewed, or sniffed for a ton of effects like thinking your cool if you do but we all know your really not. It is an addictive substance because it has the chemical nicotine in it. People say that the tobacco plant is believed to have started in the Western Hemisphere. The leaves of the plant are then made for smoking, chewing, or sniffing. Nicotine is not the only chemical it contains over 4, 000 other...
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Outlawing Cigarettes Horrible Illnesses
882 wordsMy father is addicted to cigarettes and it has been that way for years. I still remember those long winter evenings spent with my father in our living room. Him reading a newspaper and us playing around. But one think from that time I remember most, it was the unpleasant cigarettes smoke we had to inhale. When I was a youngster I did not realized that smoking or breathing the cigarettes smoke may be so dangerous. Every year cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands people, and many more will suffer ...
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Second Hand Smoke Low Birth Weight
1,173 wordsTobacco is a substance consisting of the dried leaves and stems of the plant Nicotinia tabac, which contains the drug nicotine. The plant is native to North America, but now is grown around the world. Nicotine is a powerful nerve stimulant and is extremely toxic. Two to three drops of pure nicotine, if taken all at once, are enough to kill the average person. Nicotine has been classified as the most addictive drug in existence. There are three principal ways to consume tobacco: smoking, chewing ...
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Tobacco Users Tobacco Industry
898 wordsTHIS IS A PAPER REGARDING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY (3 PAGES). This paper is about the tobacco industry. Some would find that the label 'killing business' is very appropriate. Others would say that that name is misleading and inaccurate. Biased, I am not. So we will look at the issue in regards to the industry from both consumer and producer points of perspective with fairness and equality in reach. With an open mind now, let's peer closer at the aftermath tobacco has left us standing in. Something h...
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Secondhand Smoke Outlawing Cigarettes
1,609 wordsThis year alone cigarettes will kill over 420, 000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases 1. These horrible illnesses were known to originate from cigarettes for years, and recently nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, was declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned about health dangers in cigarettes. Al...
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Withdrawal Symptoms Addictive Drug
1,551 wordsAbuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topic of drug abuse very difficult. From the most recent studies only can one find data that is presently accepted as correct. These numerous studies provide enough data to explain the effects of both legal...
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Blood Vessels Lung Cancer
1,033 wordsSmoking is an extremely addictive habit that usually forms in the early teen years. We should be targeting our children from the time they enter elementary school to prepare them for this temptation and encourage them to steer clear of this problem (Schoebel 287). There is no sure cure for smoking, and every method requires willingness, dedication, and will power. Smokers should recognize the serious health risks they are facing every time they light a cigarette and accept that quitting such an ...
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Causes And Effects Of Smoking
1,046 wordsp. 1 Scientists and health officials have been arguing the detrimental effects smoking has on our health for many years. Smoking can lead to serious complications including asthma, pancreas, lung and stomach cancer due to the large number of carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals) and other various substances added to it. It is a health hazard for both smokers and non-smokers and it is especially harmful to unborn babies. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress, the ...
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American Lung Association Surgeon Generals
2,797 wordsLong Term Effects of Smoking on the Human Body Nicotine is a poisonous alkaloid found in cigarettes and is considered the addicting substance that makes quitting smoking so difficult. Each day, more than 4, 800 teenagers, between the ages of eleven and seventeen, smoke their first cigarette. Almost 2, 000 of these young people will become regular smokers, adding up to 730, 000 teenage smokers annually. Also, inhaling tobacco smoke is habit-forming. It causes a temporary lift to the nerves and th...
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Second Hand Smoke Billion Dollars
2,595 wordsKicking the Habit: The Economic Effect on the Nation For about 400 years tobacco companies have been at the top of the American enterprise. But lately in the last 50 years we have been learning about the health hazards linked to tobacco. In 1964, the Surgeon General announced that smoking can be a health hazard. After that discovery, nicotine (which is in tobacco) was found to be a very addictive drug. It was also found that currently there are about 9, 000 deaths annually due to second-hand smo...
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Food And Drug Administration Outlawing Cigarettes
1,132 wordsCigarettes-Killing Our Country- This year alone cigarettes will kill over 420, 000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were known to originate from cigarettes for years, and recently nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, was declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned about he...
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Second Hand Smoke Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles Times Second Hand Smoke
1,576 wordsCigarettes: Whats Killing Our Country This year alone cigarettes will kill over 420, 000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases 1. These horrible illnesses were known to originate from cigarettes for years, and recently nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, was declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned ...
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Coronary Heart Disease Funk 038 Wagnalls
1,611 wordsBanes 1 Ms. BuccholzC 411 / 2 / 98 Kick the Habit Since the turn of the century, smoking has been an American pastime. Smoking cigarettes was a way to relieve stress, relax, and enjoy life. Smoking was considered harmless until about 50 years ago. The American Tobacco Company disagrees with this. Research since then has proven much about this American pastime. The American Tobacco Company refuses to believe that smoking cigarettes can cause various types of cancer. This includes lung cancer, and...
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Heroin Addicts Anabolic Steroids
4,574 wordsThere are few other social problems that are surrounded by more myths and misinformation than drug use. The confusion actually starts with the meaning of the term. Many people believe that only illegal substances such as heroin, cocaine, or marijuana are drugs, but alcohol and tobacco alter the minds and moods of those who use them and can be just as dangerous as illicit drugs. Also drug use is not limited to a few deviants on the margin of society. Drugs are a big business: Canadians spend bill...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
1,213 wordsTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States. Nicotine, which is an alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant, is a potent chemical that has powerful effects on the human body, especially when administered rapidly or at high doses. Prenatal exposure to nicotine is associated with adverse reproductive outcomes, including altered neural structure and functioning, cognitive deficits, and behavior problems in the offspring (9). At least 20 % 30 % of pregnant women are...
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Immanuel Kant Philip Morris
10,056 wordsHere is the tobacco case study for the marketing ethics discussion: LYING AND TOBACCO Senior Executives Caught in the Ethical Cross Hairs: Shareholder Loyalty or Social Responsibility? Case Development: Shelton S. Bridges, IV &# 038; Stephen M. Mounts You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. The Ninth Commandment Exodus 20: 16 INTRODUCTION For at least 3, 400 years? and probably much longer? scholars, philosophers, theologians, and others have pondered the question of truth. What ...
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People Who Smoke Cigarette Smoking
972 wordsSURGEON Quit Smoking! Quit Smoking! SURGEON GENERALS WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy. Cigarette smoking has been proven to be hazardous to your health. It wasn t until 1964 that the actual truth came out about cigarette use. From the years 1952 - 1956 Kent brand cigarettes was allowed to use a filter containing asbestos. Cigarette ads were allowed on television up until the year 1971, and it wasn t until 1979 that it was discovered that...
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Cognitive Perspective Mental Processes
492 wordsDo Cigarettes Calm People Down? Many people say that a cigarette will calm them down, but is that the case, or is it the nicotine in a cigarette limits the ability of the human brain to focus on more than one thing at a time. In Jon D. Kassel s study of the affects of nicotine, he tried to prove that nicotine doesn t make the problem go away, it just temporally distracts attention from the problem giving the person a false sense of calmness. A two-part hypothesis was developed by Jon D. Kassel a...
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