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    Effects of Smoking on the Body Background of the Study Smoking cigarettes has been proven too be extremely dangerous to your health‚ which causes various forms of cancer and other life threatening diseases. There are over 4‚000 chemicals in cigarette smoke and 200 of those are known poisons. Smoking cigarettes for as few as a couple of years can have permanent effects on the body. Smoking can effect the heart and lungs; mouth and throat; arms‚ legs‚ skin and the mind.

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    Cigarette? Why not? How about I’ll tell you why? Smoking can be considered one of the most dangerous habits that any one individual can have. Smoking kills an average of 450‚000 people each year. More deaths are caused each year by cigarettes and tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus‚ illegal drug use‚ alcohol use‚ motor vehicle injuries‚ suicides‚ and murders combined. So why is it that people still continue to smoke? Although smoking relieves stress and is seen as cool by some

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    THE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING ON THE BODY The effects of cigarette smoking on the human body are serious and in many cases‚ deadly. There is said to be approximately four thousand chemicals in cigarettes and of this four thousand‚ hundreds of them are said to be toxic. The chemicals in cigarettes affect the human body immensely from the internal functions of organs to the productivity of the body’s immune system. Three common effects of cigarette smoking on the human body are heart attacks

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    The effects of smoking marijuana on the body and mind There are many reasons why some people start taking drugs. Many of these are social. But with the very first use‚ chemical changes occur in the brain that may lead to addiction. Drug addiction is a disease. And with every additional use‚ the user increases his or her chance of becoming addicted. Drugs are chemicals. They work in the brain by tapping into the brain’s communication system and interfering with the way nerve cells normally send

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    hildren face a 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

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    The Ripple Effect of Smoking It has become common knowledge that smoking is bad for people’s health‚ nonetheless people continue to smoke. To be honest‚ that is fine. If people want to endanger themselves by smoking then I wish them a swift and peaceful end (though most smokers die a slow and agonizing death). What is not acceptable is the effect that smoke has on non-smokers who have almost no way of getting away from smoke unless they want to stay in their house. Smokers affect everyone

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    Why is Smoking Bad For You ? You know that smoking is one of the worst things kids or adults can do to their bodies.Then‚ why do you smoke? I think‚ you have not really become conscious about all the effects’ smoking.Whereas‚ there are a lot of harm of smoking.Some of them are that smoking affects your healt‚you spend a lot of Money‚you make some rude behaviours people around you. The first reason “Why is smoking bad for you?” is that‚ smoking is responsible for several

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    the AUDIENCE so they do not get lost. A. INTRODUCTION 1. Attention-Getter: Did you know smoking is bad for you and can cause a lot of danger things to your body? Have you ever realized what it can cause in the future or what it can do to you? Stop and think every time you put that nasty thing in your mouth. If you quit smoking you will live a healthy life I guarantee you! 2. Bond: Link-to Audience: Smoking every year and every day has cause thousands of people to die. It has cause diseases towards

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    Effects of Smoking on Unborn Children Smoking in the United States and the world over is a major health problem. Moreover‚ smoking during pregnancy not only can harm the mother but also the unborn child. During 2006 at least 10 percent of pregnant women in the United States smoked during pregnancy. (1) According to the U.S. Public Health Service (3) if pregnant women in the United States quit smoking there would be a 5 percent reduction in newborn deaths and an 11 percent reduction in stillborn

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    “SHOULD A PREGNANT WOMAN BE PUNISHED FOR EXPOSING HER FETUS TO RISK?” TAMEA SPURLIN HEALTH RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY (HS542) JANURARY 23‚ 2011 PROFESSOR GOMILLION In my opinion‚ pregnant women should be punished for partaking in legal behaviors such as taking fertility medication‚ smoking‚ and drinking‚ all of which can cause harm to the fetus. I think a woman should subordinate her right to control her life when she decides to become

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