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Secondhand Smoke Athletic Prowess
1,862 wordsRepresentative introduces the following bill, which was referred to the committee on January tenth twenty thousand and one. Section One: Cigarettes are killing the uneducated youth. This bill is targeted towards the youth and protecting them against making the terrible decision to smoke. This bill will change the amount of smokers because the bill is going to make cigarettes less a part of society and make them less desired. Section Two: Every year cigarettes kill more Americans than were killed...
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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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Shortness Of Breath Cigarette Smoke
663 wordsBronchitis is when the line the bronchial tubes become inflamed. As with the common cold, virtually everyone has had bronchitis at some time. It usually is caused by a viral infection that spreads to the bronchi. There are several types of bronchitis; the most common types are acute and chronic. Acute bronchitis is the inflammation of mucous membranes of the bronchial tubes, it usually only lasts a few days. Chronic bronchitis is when acute bronchitis lasts for months at a time and returns every...
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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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Cell Lung Cancer Second Hand Smoke
1,755 wordsIn this report I am going to tell you some of the irreversible health effects of smoking and why some people start smoking. Some of the health effects caused by smoking are non-small cell and small cell lung cancer. An irreversible health effect is a permanent change in the structure and / or function of an organ system or a permanently increased risk of suffering from a disease or some other threat to health. Irreversible effects vary in intensity and are related both to the amount and duration...
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Second Hand Smoke Smoking In Public
1,831 words"A blockbuster study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) examined the impact of exposure to ETS on the progression of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and concluded, in part, that the arteries of non-smokers exposed to ETS thickened 20 % faster than non-smokers with no second-hand exposure" (JAMA). Another study published in Pediatrics in January estimated that, "about half of the cases of early childhood cases of asthma, chronic br...
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Make Tobacco Illegal And Legalize Marijuana
533 wordsThere have been lots of views and opinions surrounding the arguments whether marijuana should be legalized and if tobacco should be made illegal. The reasons for marijuana not being legalized are similar to the reasons people want tobacco to become illegal. Only the danger that tobacco provides is more intense than the danger marijuana. Marijuana's short-term effects include temporary problem with memory and problems with learning. It also causes temporary distorted perception (sounds, time, tou...
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Tobacco Smoke Healthy Lifestyle
1,649 wordsOpinion Paper United States is a truly unique country. When President Bush and his Bible thumping cronies introduce legislations that legalize tap wiring, torturing of suspected terrorists and keeping people in jail for years, without charging them with any crime, people think of it as normal. However, once the municipal authorities introduce legislations that are meant to promote public health, many citizens consider it as something that deprives them of their civil rights. In 2003, New Yorks M...
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Tobacco Smoke Secondhand Smoke
672 wordsRunning head: SMOKING Smoking April 20, 2009 Smoking Cigarette smoking has become an issue of the day. According to the publicly available statistics, smoking is one of the major causes of heart and lung related diseases, premature birth and death throughout the world. Smoking causes harm to nearly every organ of human body, but, what is even more dangerous, it harms not only a smoker himself, but also causes harm to other people, if they breathe in smoke secondhand, and the environment, polluti...
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Short Term Effects Tobacco Smoke
1,761 wordsA CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF TWO ARTICLES June 27, 2009 Journal Article Review Introduction This paper presents a critical appraisal of two articles, A randomized controlled trial of a health education intervention provided by nurses to mothers of sick children written by Chan S. and Lam T. H. and Minority ethnic women and cervical screening: a matter of action or research? written by Chiu L. F. using the appropriate CASP guidelines. Chan S. & Lam T. H. (2007) A randomized controlled trial of a healt...
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Symptoms Of Stress
2,185 wordsStress Stress is an unavoidable phenomenon of life. Without stress, there would be no life. It is like getting exposed to radiation. Long term exposure to it could be hazardous. Increased stress results in increased productivity - up to a point. However, this level differs for each of us. The right degree of stress can create magnificent tones. We all need to find the proper level of stress that promotes optimal performance, and enables us to produce harmony in our lives. It is not surprising th...
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Smokers And Non Smokers State Of California
558 wordsAccording to our research and calculations, an estimated 1, 323 Americans die daily from a smoking related illness. Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the US (Bilofsky, 1). Smokers only make up approximately 26 % of the US population, but those 26 % affect 100 % of us. A number of diseases can be caught from second hand smoking, or passive smoking, including a number of cancers throughout the body, emphysema, asthma, and cardiovascular problems. The affects of smoking have b...
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Environmental Protection Agency Tobacco Smoke
268 wordsEnvironmental Tobacco Smoke Mark Ritter Matt Porter Research Paper November 25, 1996 Tobacco smoking has long been recognized as a major cause of death and disease, responsible for an estimated 434, 000 deaths per year in the United States. After the Environmental Protection Agency and the Surgeon General stated that cigarettes cause lung cancer there was a tremendous movement to make cigarettes illegal. Now the debate is on environmental tobacco smoke also known as secondhand smoke, passive smo...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
6,798 wordsTobacco is Drugs TOBACCO Tobacco is a plant grown for its leaves that are smoked, chewed, or sniffed for a variety of effects. It is considered an addictive substance because it contains the chemical nicotine. The tobacco plant is believed to have originated in the Western Hemisphere. The cultivated species most often grown for North American and European tobacco products is Nicotine Tabacum. The leaves of the plant are prepared for smoking, chewing, or sniffing. In addition nicotine tobacco con...
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Smoking In Public Places Tobacco Smoke
372 wordsThe prohibition of smoking has become more and more wide spread in the Unite States today. Due to studies that smoking is related to many illnesses, people have made safe guards to prevent from acquiring them. One of those safe guard is prohibiting smoking in public places. Some factors are; the health risks smoking causes, it sets better examples for young adults and children, and foremost, it gives better consideration to those who do not smoke. Health reasons are at the top of the list to why...
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Low Birth Weight Tobacco Smoke
1,286 wordsTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in Malaysia. Under the current law, smoking is banned in all public places. These include amusement centres, theatres, hospitals, clinics, public vehicles and air-conditioned restaurants. Likewise, anyone under age of eighteen is not allowed to buy cigarettes or any tobacco products. If the seller is not sure of the buyers age, then it is advisable to check his identity card. Free cigarette samples are not allowed to be distributed at the...
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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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Tobacco Smoke Cancer Deaths
497 wordsAbout 50 million people in the United States alone currently smoke a total of 570 billion cigarettes each year. In each one of these cigarettes there are around 4000 different chemicals, some of which are highly toxic. Nicotine, a main ingredient of tobacco smoke, is the most addictive drug known to man. Two main topics about smoking in general I would like to discuss are the various health effects of smoking and the anti-smoking actions which society has taken. The American Cancer Society estim...
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Marijuana Smoking Tobacco Smoke
906 wordsMarijuana Legal or Illegal Cannabis, sold as marijuana, hashish and hash oil, is the most frequently used illicit drug in Canada. Roughly one in four Canadian adults report having used cannabis at some time in their lives. Cannabis use has been on the rise among young people. ? For example, a 1997 Addiction Research Foundation survey found that 25 per cent of Ontario junior high school students used cannabis in the previous year, up from 13 per cent in 1993. ? (cannabis) Knowing this, should the...
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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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