CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF SMOKING p.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
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The Control and Monitoring of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy 1.1 Introduction When it comes to the topic of women and pregnancy there is much debate and controversy surrounding what a woman should and should not do with her body. A reason for this is that a woman is not only caring for herself but for another human being‚ as pregnancy entails “having a child or young developing in the uterus” (Oxford Dictionaries‚ 2016). This is why smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy
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Cause and Effect: Smoking. Smoking causes respiratory problems‚ circulatory system difficulties‚ and urinary troubles increasing the fact that smoking causes unavoidable harms to the body. Although smoking may have the appearance of something that “is cool”‚ it causes several heath problems many of which incessant effects. Differing to what tobacco companies want citizens to believe‚ smoking does lead to perilous heath. Smoking especially causes damage to the respiratory system‚ distressing
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evaluation of gender differences in smoking cessation success Smoking remains the world’s leading preventable cause of death‚ killing 6 million people annually worldwide accounting for 20% of male’s deaths and 5% of female’s deaths (WHO‚ 2011). It is a major contributor in the development of many diseases including‚ COPD‚ lung cancer and cardiovascular disease; and places women at a greater overall risk for disease than men. Therefore promoting and sustaining smoking cessation is very significant in
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of human being. Smoking is the one of the worst inventions of human race. It is we who have led us to a self destructive path. Smoking has several impacts in our day to life. It affects us physically‚ socially and moreover economically. It has no positive side to offer am person. But many people are becoming the victims of this fatal addiction day by day. Why do people smoke? Why do not they realize the bad effects of smoking? What are they major social impacts of smoking? Smoking is a practice in
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“The only way to be a truly happy non-smoker is to have absolutely no desire to smoke” (Carr‚ 2006). Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco or cannabis‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes‚ primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling paper. Smoking is a leading preventable cause of death all over the world. If you are a regular smoker‚ you are probably
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Harmful Effects Of Smoking Smoking isn’t good for one’s body. Especially if you’ve been smoking a pack a day‚ and for a long period of time. But what is the full extent of the effects of smoking on your body? The effects of smoking varies from person to person as it will depend on the person’s vulnerability to the chemical in cigarette or tobacco smoke. It will also depend on the number of cigarette sticks a person smokes per day‚ the age when the person first started to smoke‚ and the number of
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Claudine "pakantot" Baldevarona 6722-Aristotle Smoking Among Teenagers CHAPTER 1: Introduction It is a fact that children who starts smoking before the age of 15 will continue to smoke all their adult life. This is why smoking is bad for teenagers. A cigarette contains more than 4000 chemical compounds among which 40 are carcinogens and unfortunately‚ it affects the health of a child in a very bad way. Cigarette smoking is a habit that kills approximately million of people per year. It
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Alondra Mendoza Professor Pilarski ENC 1101 15 October 2013 Anti-Smoking Nowadays smoking is everywhere‚ and spreading rather fast. Especially teenagers under that age of eighteen. It’s rather sad that more and more teen’s everyday smokes their first cigarette‚ or became accustomed to smoking daily. But beside the number of smoker’s increasing daily‚ so has anti-smoking advertisements. You now see them everywhere‚ and they have become more gruesome over the past years to really show you what
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1964‚ in Surgeon General’s statement‚ smoking’s harmful effects was understood. Smoking causes serious health and economical issues with it’s effects such as causing huge financial losses in country budgets‚ leading to many kinds of health problems and affecting either smokers and non-smokers. First of all‚ causing health problems is the most dangerous effect of smoking when be thought surfacely. Smoking causes many health problems but the most important and fatal one is lung-cancer
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