Why Smoking is Good for You Smoking is good for in many ways including making you live longer. Although most text books and "experts" say that smoking is bad for you‚ there are also many other people who disagree and say it has many curing properties. For example‚ a person with bronchitis from childhood accompanied by marked wheezing was told by doctors not to smoke. He was then told by an old country doctor that he used to be like him until he took up the pipe. Then he tried smoking and it reduced
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Bad Effects of Smoking http://www.articledoctor.com/quit-smoking/bad-effects-of-smoking-2331 Cigarette smoking is usually associated with breathing trouble and lung cancer. But smokers are at a high risk of developing several chronic disorders. Along with high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity and diabetes‚ smoking is a major independent risk factor for a coronary heart disease or kidney failure. It causes damage by decreasing the oxygen flow to the heart. It increases the blood pressure
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Smoking Cause and Effect All people have habits. Some people have negative or positive habits. Smoking is one of these negative habits. Most smokers started smoking when they were young. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no one starts smoking after age Twenty-five. Nearly nine out of ten smokers started smoking by age eighteen. They started smoking to try it out then smoking became a habit. Some young smokers were attracted by the advertisements of cigarette companies
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Effects of Smoking on Reproduction Stacie L. Thomason Tusculum College Abstract The effects that smoking has on reproduction can be extensive. It not only affects women and children‚ but men as well. Smoking before getting pregnant can cause infertility in both men and women. Other issues than can occur are infertility in men and women‚ low birth weight in babies‚ still birth‚ miscarriage‚ and effects on children as they grow. After a child is born‚ issues such as asthma‚ clef lip/palate
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CVS Caremark recently announced that it will discontinue the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. CVS Caremark is a well-known pharmaceutical chain whose primary focus is a reinventing pharmacy to help people on their path to better health. The news comes as a shock to many of its consumers with plans to affect 7‚600 stores by October 2014. Not only is this going to affect tobacco users it will ultimately cause the company to lose approximately 2 billion dollars in annual revenue. I will
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Off With Their Head: Tobacco Companies Know the Effects “Government slowly suffocating these companies who are entitled to advertise and sell their legal ware”. Wait! Dr. Michael Kirsch offers up his support for the big tobacco companies‚ and in fact feels that consumers knew or should have known the effects of tobacco consumption. With mounting evidence over the years focused on the lies surrounding tobacco companies’ corporate practices‚ advertising game plans and falsification of nicotine content
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aweedasfaedoawjdoiwada;dasd sdsa ;dsadsadscarded cigarette butts may present health risks to human infants and animals because of indiscriminate eating behaviours. Nicotine found in cigarette butts may cause vomiting and neurological toxicity; leachates of cigarette butts in aquatic environments may cause exposure to additional toxic chemicals including heavy metals‚ ethyl phenol and pesticide residues. This report reviews published and grey literature regarding cigarette butt waste consumption by children‚ pets
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the tobacco industry‚ manufacturing tobacco-related products such as cigarettes‚ smokeless tobacco‚ and cigars since 1875. RAI‚ along with others in the tobacco industry‚ face many challenges most of which are environmental threats to the industry. The major environmental factors that challenge the RAI are federal regulations and ongoing litigation. Strategic resources then have to be utilized to combat these challenges. On June 22‚ 2009‚ the US government passed the Family Smoking Prevention
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higher risk than adults of the negative effects of secondhand smoke. Not only is a child’s body still developing physically‚ but their breathing rate is faster than that of adults. Adults breathe in and out approximately 14 to 18 times a minute‚ where newborns can breathe as many as 60 times a minute. Up until a child is about 5 years old‚ the respiratory rate is quite fast; usually between 20 and 60 breaths per minute. When the air is tainted with cigarette smoke‚ young‚ developing lungs receive
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Health is a complex and challenged concept with a variety of different definitions. The traditional definition solely focused on disease and injury to define health. Following the later ground-breaking definition formulating in 1946 with the World Health Organisation (WHO) describing health as "...a state of complete physical‚ mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". As a result‚ this portrayed health as having many more dimensions alongside the inclusion of
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