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    About Smoking: Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine‚ which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs‚ the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal. People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users’ start before they’re 18 years

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    Effects of Television Viewing on Children By: Samaher Abdullah Alhothali ID: 08120223 Course: Research Project ENGL-300 Supervised by: Ms. Yasmin khan YANBU UNIVERSITY COLLEGE‚ YANBU AL SINAIAH January 2011 Table of content Table of content ……………………………………………... P2 Table of figures ………………………….....………….…...... P3 Outline ………………………………………………….. P4 Preface ...………………………………………………….. P5 Methodology...………………........…………………………… P6 Thesis Statement .

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    Wisconsin-Madison College library. It is regarded as a smoking and recreational area with garbage bins located surrounding the library entrance. Smokers take the garbage bins as ashtrays to discard their cigarette butts. Most people who smoke there are those who take breaks while studying at college library. It is noticeable that at times‚ smokers who are friends or maybe strangers will “unite” with two to seven people to smoke. This field study was taken between February 24th 2010 to March 24th with

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    to stop smoking. Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people around you. Breathing other people’s smoke is called passive‚ involuntary or secondhand smoking. The non-smoker breathes "side stream" smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and "mainstream" smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker. Secondhand smoke is a major source of indoor air pollution. How does this affect the passive smoker? Some of the immediate effects of passive

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    Language Learning & Technology http://llt.msu.edu/vol14num1/winkegasssydorenko.pdf February 2010‚ Volume 14‚ Number 1 pp. 65–86 THE EFFECTS OF CAPTIONING VIDEOS USED FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LISTENING ACTIVITIES1 Paula Winke‚ Susan Gass‚ and Tetyana Sydorenko Michigan State University This study investigated the effects of captioning during video-based listening activities. Second- and fourth-year learners of Arabic‚ Chinese‚ Spanish‚ and Russian watched three short videos with and without captioning

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    Angie Funes Prof. Cathy Cripps English 97 May 6‚ 2013 Smoking cigarettes should be illegal For a long time people have different concepts and point of view about smoking. Nowadays a lot of people think that smoking is good and helps them‚ but others think that should be banned. “The Believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.” (Ralph Waldo). The question is what is in a cigarette? A cigarette is made of a classic white paper‚ and when it burns it releases

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    It is the main thrust of this Act to: a. Promote a healthful environment; b. Inform the public of the health risks associated with cigarette smoking and tobacco use; c. Regulate and subsequently ban all tobacco advertisements and sponsorships; d. Regulate the labeling of tobacco products; e. Protect the youth from being initiated to cigarette smoking and tobacco use by prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors; f. Assists and encourage Filipino tobacco farmers to cultivate alternative

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    their health and a good job; law that prohibit smoking in public places help create a healthy environment for all people. The common good must be protected over the perceived individual’s right to smoke because clean air but clean air is a basic human right secured by the United States Constitution’s promise to establish justice‚ ensure domestic tranquility‚ and promote the general welfare. Local‚ state‚ and even the federal government need to impose smoking bans in public places. It’s an American right

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    Causes of Smoking habit among Teenagers Regina Jane A. Ancheta Math11FA1 Prof. Dangla Hypothesis: Chapter 1: Introduction Each year a great amount of money are being wasted in smoking. Although it is quite obvious that smoking habit is dangerous and injurious to health but still a larger number of people especially teenagers attracting and getting involved in smoking habit day by day. Some reasons of this addiction are obvious such as influence of friends or community member as teenage

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    Smoking Marijuana has some pros and cons but‚ more cons of course. The chemicals that are in this substance are known to cause cancer such as; Tobacco‚ ammonia‚ hydrogen cyanide‚ and formaldehyde. There’s no research that marijuana causes lung cancer like cigarettes do. But people that smoke pot do show and have research. Does smoking pot change the way your brain thinks? Works? Function?. “Heavy pot smokers in studies score lower than non-users on tests of memory‚ attention‚ and learning. The more

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