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Second Hand Smoke Allowed To Continue
1,194 wordsTobacco has been used for enjoyment for thousands of years. Native Americans are believed to be the first to use tobacco. Over the years the use of tobacco has become so widespread that is can be found in nearly every country. The tobacco industries have provided a very harmful product to the public. The US Government should regulate the tobacco industry because tobacco is hazardous to the American public and because they have conducted their business practices in an unethical and immoral fashio...
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Second Hand Smoke People Who Smoke
1,600 wordsSenior Exhibition Draft # 2 Why do cigarettes remain a legal form of substance abuse, when scientific evidence gathered from around the world has proven how addictive and dangerous they are? Tobacco dependence is a global epidemic that affects more than one billion people worldwide. tobacco causes 3. 5 million deaths each year or about 10, 000 deaths each day. In addiction, it is estimated that passive smoke kills 50, 000 adults every year in the United States. http While it would not be practic...
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American Lung Association Food And Drug Administration
1,572 words... sed by various cities increases tenfold; and by 1989, 44 states had passed some form of smoking control legislation. Cigarettes still remain the second most heavily advertised product in the United States, behind automobiles. (All broadcast advertisment was previously banned in 1971) The Merican Medical Association is among the many institutions that have recommended a ban on all cigarettes advertisements and promotional activities. Approximately 80 - 90 - percent of regular smokers start at...
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Opium Poppy Blood Flow
1,589 wordsMany different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body. Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey light brown mass ("Opi...
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Opening Chapter Hot Air
1,376 wordsA dictionary defines the word addictive as being: wholly devoted to something, a slave to another and in a state of wanting more. Ian McEwan claimed that he wanted to write an opening chapter that had the same effect as a highly addictive drug. In my opinion he has achieved in doing this. At the end of chapter one the reader is left needing more information about the characters introduced and what tragedy actually occurred. McEwan took the definition, addictive, and wrote the opening chapter, ne...
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Smoking Marijuana Drinking Alcohol
1,027 wordsseriously detrimental. Are they looking at the facts? Or do they just believe the same myths that our parents created when they were trying to stop us from becoming drug addicts? Let& risques take a closer look at the facts. Violence surrounding drug dealing would be lessened by legalizing marijuana because small time drug dealers would essentially be forced out of business. Larger companies who could produce high quality marijuana at lower cost would prevail. Most people would buy from thes...
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Thoughts And Feelings Internet Addiction
1,849 words... lem, Dude. And besides, you " re beginning to tick me off!' (II) Failing to Ask for Help The second trademark of most addictions is that people affected are very reluctant to ask for help. The mindset of most addicts is: 'I can beat this myself. ' Not only are they reluctant to ask other people for help, but even when they do, they don't accept the advice of others easily. The best thing to do is to look for individuals or professionals who know how to cure addicted people. While these resou...
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Drug Abuse Medical Examiner
1,029 wordsThe number of various diseases, that were impossible or hard to cure just several years ago, had substantially decreased due to the scientific and technological advance. The rapid development of medicine and especially of the pharmaceutical industry had resulted in a creation of a variety of new and sophisticated drugs. With every year, they become more strong and effective than their predecessors. Thousands of people with different illnesses depend on a certain kind of medical preparation, whic...
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disease Or Not
2,377 wordsCompulsive Sexual Behavior: Disease or Not Sex and love addiction is a relatively new conception for understanding and treating compulsive sexual behavior and relationship dependency. This paper is aimed to prove that compulsive sexual behavior is a disease, driven sexual acting out and intensive, unending, and unhealthy romantic attachment. Compulsive sexual behavior requires treatment and recovery. Unfortunately, the medical profession continues to debate the diagnostic terminology to be appli...
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Drug Enforcement Agency Law Enforcement Agencies
2,247 wordsHow Medicine Can Turn into a Weapon The number of various diseases, that were impossible or hard to cure just several years ago, had substantially decreased due to the scientific and technological advance. The rapid development of medicine and especially of the pharmaceutical industry had resulted in a creation of a variety of new and sophisticated drugs. With every year, they become more strong and effective than their predecessors. Thousands of people with different illnesses depend on a certa...
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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
1,386 wordsThis 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. 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. Although...
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Psychological Dependence Opium Poppy
2,700 wordsDrug and Alcohol Abuse Both Drug and Alcohol abuse seems to be a big problem in our world today, with the idea that some kind of substance is needed to have fun. Its mostly in the teenage and young adult years that drug abuse begins, and most older addicts started when they were young. In this paper i am going to go over a few will used drugs, their ingredients, uses, and effects. Alcohol Alcohol, the most wide abused drug, In todays world, alcohol is not often thought of as a drug largely becau...
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Quot Quot Crack Cocaine
3,102 wordsOne of the biggest problems people cope with today is the addiction of drugs and alcohol. The effects of taking these drugs are dangerous: domestic violence, crimes, accidents, sexual assault or becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. Different studies of domestic violence show a big involvement of high quantities of alcohol and other drugs. These increase the level of aggression. Alcoholism and child abuse, including incest, seem tightly intertwined as well. Parents, being under alcohol influence, abu...
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Long Term Effects Personal Interview
1,508 wordsIn James Baldwins Sonny's Blues, Sonny was addicted to heroin. He states: I cant get anything straight in my head down here and I try not to think whats going to happen to me when I get outside again. Sometimes I think Im going to flip and never get outside and sometimes I think Ill come straight back. Ill tell you one think though Id rather blow my brains out then go through this again (84). Here Sonny is going through one of the stages of heroin. He is going through the withdrawal stage and he...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Smoking Marijuana
1,732 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Marijuana is the dried flower clusters and leaves of the hemp plant when taken to induce euphoria. Marijuana has been in existence for centuries even Magellan spoke of it during his trip to India. In his log he spoke of a plant that you smoked that made a man drunk without drinking. Marijuana would be beneficial if legalized because it would bring in extra money, it has medical uses, hemp is one of the best materials in the world and on average it is healthier for you t...
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Legalizing Marijuana Smoking Marijuana
4,090 wordsLegalizing Marijuana for Medical Use Should we have the right to control what substances we put into our bodies? We have been denied the right to use certain substances, despite their possible medical values. The media has bombarded us with images that portray the use of marijuana as strictly a means for teenagers to get high. The truth is, behind these preconceived views, there are substantial medical values. Marijuana is a very versatile drug, and is capable of relieving a wide range of sympto...
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Internet Addiction Chat Rooms
2,080 wordsResearch Paper Theme: Social Impact of the Internet 8 October 1997 ABSTRACT The Internet is the largest source of information in the world today. With its web sites and chat rooms, it is a means of communicating with people in places all over the face of the earth. Since its conception in 1973, the Internet has grown at a whirlwind rate. 51 million adults, were on-line as of the second quarter 1997 in the United States alone. Some say that the Internet is so enjoyable that it is almost addictive...
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Greco Roman Professional Wrestling
1,140 wordsWrestling is a sport of many statures. There are many different ways to par take in this sport, all of which make the sport highly addictive. As said before wrestling is an addictive sport. It has been played many different ways, from times that date back to the Egyptians. The variety just makes the sport more addictive. Some of the ways people par take in the sport would be Freestyle or Greco-Roman, Olympic Wrestling, and Professional Wrestling. Wrestling has been popular throughout recorded hi...
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