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Christian Temperance Union Alcoholic Beverages
1,157 wordsIn Illinois during the year 1900, temperance and prohibition were prominent issues on the social and political stage. The temperance movement found most of its adherents in middle-class women. Urban women saw the linkages between poverty and alcoholism, while many rural women were aware of how the isolation of farm life amplified the horrors of alcohol abuse. The temperance movement was directly related to the women's suffrage movement going on across the country. The temperance movement enabled...
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Marijuana Smoke Marijuana Causes
1,191 wordsHurry Up Long recognized as one of God's greatest gifts to mankind, Ganja truly can heal the earth. Unknown to many today, cannabis hemp was used worldwide in paper, fiber, lamp oil and nautical applications throughout the 19 th century, constituting "possibly the largest agricultural and industrial businesses in America" (Here 83). In the early part of the 1800 s cannabis was the number one medicine in the US (83). It held that spot tightly, until it was nudged to second place by morphine in 18...
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Los Angeles Male Counterparts
1,387 wordsLos Angeles; By 10 a. m. , the Playboy Gangster Crips are hanging down on Corning Street, calling each other "Cuz, " sipping quarts of Old English 800 Malt Liquor. The graffiti on the building behind them is theirs. So is the broken beer bottle glass on the piece of dirt front yard. They " re listening to rap tunes blaring out of an enormous boom box radio. They punch each other in the shoulder and laugh at jokes only they understand. The Pbgs are open for business. If you " ve got $ 100, drive ...
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Teenage Smoking Smoking Causes
421 wordsThere are several causes for teenage smoking, as well as many effects. There are no positive effects of teenage smoking, so there are no only negative causes for teenage smoking. The effects of teenage smoking can be both physical and mental. Despite all of the warnings there are, teenage smoking is not on a decline. Teenage smoking has many causes. Several teens take that first puff just to try something new. One might see his or her peers smoking and think it is the coolest thing. One that has...
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Alcohol Related Problems Underage Drinking
963 wordsWhat is the significance of the number twenty-one? Is twenty-one the magical age when you are officially declared mature? Why is it then, that when you turn eighteen, you are able to fight for your country? The drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen, because if you are old enough to die for your country and help make decisions for your country, than you are old enough, among many other things, to have a drink in your country. The drinking age should be eighteen, because eight...
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1,126 wordsTeaching Project Outline The group selected for the project are ten high school kids from the predominantly Spanish neighbourhood of city Meriden, Connecticut, usually referred to as the projects. The gender ratio in the selected group is 5050. Each member of the group knows one another, which suggests that the risk of spreading the addiction to cigarettes, within the group, is much higher than if it was consisted of randomly picked individuals. I used interactive method to determine the learnin...
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Religious Beliefs Big Tobacco
1,471 wordsThomas More and Dr. Jeffrey Wigand is a sufficiently complicated character, and one that we sympathize with. To be sure, he's not entirely one-dimensional. Initially, he does what most of us would do in his position: he takes the money and benefits that the company offers him in return for silence. After all, the guy has a family to look out for. But then Wigand is tortured over his passiveness, wondering if he should take a more aggressive stance with his potentially damaging knowledge. In The ...
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Coronary Artery Disease 20 Th Century
952 wordsThere are many things today which cause us harm. One can spend virtually an entire day listing the hazards faced by modern society. However, none of these hazards are as deadly as a habit millions of Americans bring on themselves twenty to thirty times a day. Smoking is the cause of a multitude of medical problems that plague not only the individual smoker, but everyone else as well. Smoking is defined as the inhaling and exhaling of the fumes of burning plant material, especially tobacco, from ...
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Violence On Tv Sesame Street
801 wordsBudWeis Er! This is a phrase that teenagers hear everyday. Where do they hear this? They hear it on TV. It is a phrase used in a commercial for beer. This phrase is used to attract people s attention including teenagers. This is one of many problems with TV these days. TV teaches teens the wrong material. Some of the other problems with TV include violence and dialogue. When it comes to commercials on TV, people think of the cola wars between Pepsi and Coca-Cola, or maybe they think of the famou...
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Camp In Germany Hugh Steffy War
260 wordsToday, we learned about a famous man named Hugh Steffy. A man who participated in battles and one of the largest wars in the world. He went in a concentration camp in Germany called Buchenwald. This was not an ordinary camp, but a infiltration camp in Germany. He had to sleep through many days of gunfire. Hugh had to sleep in fear of being killed as a variety of missiles passed by his head. Steffy stated You cant fight war without hate. Even if youre not the culprit of the war, he believes we ca...
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Day After Day Human Nature
1,044 wordsHuman Nature in Maxine Kumin s Woodchucks Maxine s Kumin s Woodchucks is a literal description a sort of woodchuck hunt in her garden. Through further examination of her words, one can sense her suggestions about human nature. With her use of tone, the reader can observe a change in her demeanor from stanza to stanza. In the poem, the author is pestered by woodchucks that are eating and destroying her garden. At first, she attempts to kill them by purchasing cyanide gas. This attempt fails and t...
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Threat To Society Legalization Of Marijuana
1,930 wordsThe legalization of marijuana would be a great benefit to almost everyone. Basically its our right of privacy to be able to smoke in our own homes. Its pretty much a failure of prohibition, and there are numerous benefits that would come into effect. An argument against legalizing it is that its a threat to society. In recent years, Americans have referred to privacy as one of the basic human rights, something to be claimed by anyone, anywhere. United States citizens feel strongly about this and...
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Ladies And Gentlemen Legalization Of Marijuana
1,296 wordsSpeech on the Legalization of Marijuana Mary Jane. Herb. Buds. Chronic. Reefer. Ganja. Charas. Sens. Boom. Buddha. Dope. Weed. Pot. All of these names describe one thing: marijuana. Over the years, this plant has acquired many names and uses. At this time in the United States, marijuana is an illegal drug with numerous users and is widely available for a price. Many users speak of the benefits of smoking marijuana and want to get it legalized for that purpose. My name is Dr. and I am the Preside...
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Millions Of Dollars Legalize Marijuana
1,155 wordsThere are several reasons to legalize marijuana. Marijuana is aug that comes from the plant Cannabis sativa. When you smoke marijuana, the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol goes into your brain and makes you feel high. That is why it is classified as a minor psychedelic. Itdoes not produce a trip, or full psychedelic experience, like other drugs such as mushrooms, acid or other such hallucinogens. Marijuana was first used by the ancient Chinese in the year 2000, BC They used it as a medicine. Throug...
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Air Force Base Divided Into Three
1,632 wordsCigarette smoking is Untitled Abstract Cigarette smoking is of interest to the National Institute on Drug Abuse both because of the public health problems associated with this form of substance abuse and because this behavior represents a prototypic dependence process. In the past few years the government has made every effort to reach the masses, in an attempt to curb the exploitation of tobacco use, and its acceptance among Americas Youngsters. However, cigarette smoking among adolescents is o...
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Makes It Hard Smoking Marijuana
683 wordsMarijuana is Marijuana 3 MARIJUANA Marijuana is the third most valuable cash crop in the U. S. Many people harvest it in Mexico. A few years ago money was made excessively from the importation of this drug. The money made was about 15 billion dollars. Most people think that Marijuana, Mary Jane, is addictive. Researchers now say that Marijuana is not addictive, and it soothes and relaxes the body. Marijuana s scientific name is Cannabis Sativa. It is one of the oldest mind altering drugs used. H...
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Marijuana Intoxication Harder Drugs
1,146 wordsDouglas Lamar Marijuana Reefer Madness Douglas Lamar Gray bought a pound of marijuana in a room at the Econo Lodge in Decatur, Alabama. He intended to keep a couple of ounces for himself and sell the rest to some of his friends. After paying $ 900 for the pot, Gray was arrested in a police sting operation. He was charged with trafficking cannabis, tried, fined $ 25, 000, and sentenced to life without parole in the maximum security prison of Springville, Alabama. Unfortunately, Grays punishment i...
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Billion Dollars Tobacco Industry
1,165 wordsTabacco and its unfair treatment Unfortunately for the tobacco industry we live in an unfair society where the population always wants to point the finger at someone other than themselves. Tobacco has been around as long as anyone can remember, and unfortunate for the tobacco industry, they made it possible for the smoking American to be able to buy fully processed and manufactured cigarettes. During this time, the average smoking American has known that smoking causes health problems, and yet t...
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Teenage Smoking Tobacco Industry
380 wordsOver the last five years, researchers have calculated that the teenage smoking rates have climbed tremendously. Graph number one shows a steady increase in the number of teenagers who smoke heavily. Graph number two shows how teenage smoking has made a comeback, and how the number of teen-agers smoke occasionally and who develop heavier habits has increased sharply in recent years. The tobacco industry and the critics have very different ideas why this rapid increase of teenage smoking is develo...
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People Cigarettes Open
479 wordsWhy? Could some one please explain something to me. All things in the world have a purpose and a benefit. Everything right? CVS being open 24 hours a day. While the person working the 3 am shift on a Friday night may not like it too much, but what if my sister gets an earache on Christmas eve. Thank goodness they? re open. Duct tape, quite possibly the world? s strongest tape. It hold up everything on my wall, and my sandals together. So I ask you this, what is the point of having cigarettes? Wh...
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