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Coronary Heart Disease American Lung Association
1,047 words"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a little over 300, 000 deaths related to AIDS in 1997. That's like taking half the people in Baltimore county and making them disappear. Another 75, 000 died from alcohol. In addition to that, 20, 000 died from illegal drug use, and 25, 000 died from motor vehicle crashes. But if you were to add those numbers up, they still wouldn't equal the amount of deaths that were related to tobacco. In fact, each year, smoking kills m...
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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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Evidence That Marijuana Life In Prison
1,824 wordsA total of 3, 470, 545 Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses. In 1997 state and local law enforcement arrested 695, 200 people for marijuana violations. That number is the highest ever recorded by the FBI. Of the 682, 885 arrests made in 1998, approximately 88 % were for simple possession. The remaining 12 % were for sale and manufacture. Every 52 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested in America. This is truly a waste of law enforcement and a waste of our tax money. These people ...
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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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Los Angeles Times Secondhand Smoke
1,064 wordsIn 1998, Drew Carey held a sit-in because of the smoking ban in the California bars. Even though Drew is not a smoker, he smoked that night and called the ban stupid. Three years ago, California enacted a state law that forbade smoking in bars and other work areas for the sake of the employees. Drew felt "It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not. Drew Carey was not cited by police for the incident, but the owner, Irwin Held, was. Held said, "It's smokin...
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Public Places Smoking Smokers
624 wordsIntroduction Some governments have banned smoking in all public places. Smoking has been proved to be very dangerous to health. Nonetheless 40 % of the population smoke. Actually I am a non smoker, although I used to be a smoker when I was 17 years old. Most people try out smoking when they are young; many youths think smoking is a good grown-up habit. Furthermore many young people begin smoking as an act of rebellion and independence. Young smokers start smoking at their age of 12 or 13 just to...
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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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Girls And Women Surgeon Generals
1,362 wordsOption Paper Abstract: There is ignorance about the health risks of tobacco. There is further darkness over the risks related to smoking women. It is not that men are spared but here we would deal only with smoking and women. Although there is heavy ponder over health issues like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atherosclerosis and cancer. How innocent our society is to ignore causes and trying to combat effects? Tobacco still remains to be one of the largest threats to health and most imp...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse Teenage Smoking
1,514 wordsMore Teenagers are still Hooked on Smoking at an Early Age Abstract This research aims to determine the daily cigarette consumption of male teenage smokers on the average through a survey conducted to fifty respondents. The research was undertaken in an area frequented by teens at a time when most of them are hanging out. The result proved that teenagers are heavy smokers and almost a third of the entire male smoking population. This proves the fact that majority of smokers today started smoking...
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Cigarette Smoking Cigarette Smokers
1,467 wordsSmoking The biggest legal killer in the world, smoking kills at least 60 million people each year. Cigarette smoking is the most significant cause of lung cancer and also the leading cause of death in both men and women. Cigarette smoking is accountable for at least one-third of the deaths of cancer annually in the united states. Cigarette smoking is an addiction that can be prevented. However, once a person inhales a cigarette it becomes an addiction that can cause lung cancer, heart disease, a...
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Cigarette Ads Cigarette Advertising
1,836 wordsThe issue of cigarette advertising has been controversial for many years. Recently, opponents of cigarette advertising, believing that the ads encourage young people to take up smoking, have called for stronger governmental controls. Proponents claim that a product that is lawful to produce, sell, and consume has every right to be advertised. This article examines recent research on the effects of cigarette advertising and shows that there is no evidence to support the belief that cigarette ads ...
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Early Death Encourage People
621 wordsWeCigarrete Kills Cigarette Kills We all, smokers as well as non-smokers, know smoking. Everyone has his own opinion about it and everyone can also speak about this problem aloud. This is why I have decided to explain my attitude to smoking. Me as a non-smoker strongly encourage people not to smoke and warm then with all the lethal consequences of smoking. I think smoking is too wide spread vice and too little things have been told about danger and harm of smoking. It is obviously that smoking k...
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Second Hand Smoke Risk Of Heart
806 wordsIt is a Smoking Smoking It is a universally accepted fact that smoking cigarettes or tobacco is detrimental to your health. There is an endless list of health problems that are directly caused or affected by smoking, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and emphysema. Short-term effects of smoking include a significant increase in heart rate and a drop in skin temperature. Respiration rate is also increased. In novice smokers, diarrhea and vomiting may occur. Although the central nervou...
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Smoke Marijuana Marijuana Smokers
2,812 wordsDrinking has become an increasing problem in our society. Many people now see drinking as a norm. Lisa McIntyre, author of The Practical Skeptic states that, For one thing, we know that norms vary across societies (152). So we also know that what is considered to be deviant varies across societies. How could members of our society see drinking as anything but a norm when everywhere one turns alcohol is being advertised? Whether it be on billboards, busses, in magazine ads, or television commerci...
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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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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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Attention Deficit Disorder Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
1,820 wordsCHEMISTRY SOCIAL ISSUE REPORT Michael Yates 1997 Nicotine Killer or Wonder Drug? Nicotine, one of the most unusual psychoactive drugs known, and the primary pharmacological agent of addiction in cigarettes, triggers powerful physical and psychological reactions in species as diverse as cockroaches and humans. Nicotine has been proven to boost concentration, improve memory and control body weight, as well as alleviating the symptoms of Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease sufferers. However, researc...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse War On Drugs
2,524 wordsLegalization of Mariana: For Its time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class Americans. According to the most recent NIDA data 1, between 65 and 71 million Americans have smoked marijuana at some time in their lives, and 10 million are current smokers (have...
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American Medical Association Prohibition Of Marijuana
2,218 wordsDonovan Kessler Anderson 11 - 29 - 00 Term Paper A huge amount of Americans are currently being arrested and sentenced for defying an unjustly created law. These Americans suffer from overly harsh penalties and may even be sentenced to death just for relaxing in ways similar to how many Americans drink a beer to relax. The current excuse from government officials for keeping marijuana illegal is that it leads to the use of harder drugs, which is a lie. Something needs to be done to protect other...
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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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