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    Studies show that smoking during pregnancy causes massive effects on a baby. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4‚000 chemicals‚ some of which include lead‚ and at least 60 other cancer-causing compounds. (Woolston 1) The bloodstream supplies the baby with oxygen and nutrients. When one smokes‚ toxins from the cigarette enter the bloodstream. Toxins‚ including nicotine and carbon monoxide‚ account for almost every smoking- related complication during pregnancy. (OBGYN James Christmas) Nicotine

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    social ecological model (SEM) and health promotion theory. The SEM theory consists of person-focused and environment-focused interventions‚ which is destined to promote health. The word ecology refers to the interrelationships among interpersonal factors‚ interpersonal connections‚ primary groups‚ and public policy. The SEM assumes that individual efforts at behavioral change will be more likely to succeed within supportive environments‚ similar to health promotion theory (Stokols‚ 1996). This theory

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    The Effects of Smoking

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    Smoking cigarettes is harmful to health” That is a warming sentence which shown on pack of cigarettes. Therefore‚ the effects of smoking cigarettes on human’s life are serious. The main purpose of this essay is to discuss three main effects of smoking cigarettes on human’s life: smokers’ health‚ non- smokers living together smokers and economy of family and country. One considerable effect of smoking cigarettes is that it can make smokers’ health get worse. Firstly‚ people who smoking

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    Original Research The smoking habits‚ attitudes towards smoking and knowledge regarding anti-smoking legislation of students in institutions of higher learning in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa Awotedu AA‚ FMCP (Nig)‚ FCCP‚ FCP (SA-PR)‚ Department of Internal Medicine‚ Walter Sisulu University‚ Mthatha Jordaan ER‚ MSc‚ Biostatistics Unit‚ Medical Research Council of South Africa‚ Tygerberg Ndukwana OZB‚ BACur‚ BACurHons (UNISA)‚ MPH‚ Department of Health Promotion‚ Walter Sisulu University

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    health essay Obesity Obesity refers to a person that has an excess proportion of fat which will affect the person in many ways‚ such as health‚ social and emotional. A person becomes obese when his or her weight is 20 percent or more above the normal weight according to the age and sex. In today’s world‚ obesity is very common. One in six adults is obese‚ one in three of the world’s kids are obese and the rate of overweight people is projected to increase by a further one percent per year

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    Imagine looking into the face of an innocent child and instead of asking for something such as a piece of candy or to play on your phone‚ they ask if you have a light for a cigaret. In “anti-smoking commercial” this becomes a reality as the young children walk up to real smokers and ask if they can borrow a lighter‚ then after the smoker has given their reasoning for not lighting the child’s cigaret the child then asks the smoker why they do it if it is harmful. The people who made this ad use these

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    Is hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes? Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as narghile‚ shisha and goza‚ a hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber‚ a bowl‚ a pipe and a hose. Specially made tobacco is heated‚ and the smoke passes through water and is then drawn through a rubber hose to a mouthpiece. The tobacco is no less toxic in a hookah pipe‚ and the water in the hookah does not filter out the toxic ingredients in the tobacco smoke. Hookah smokers may

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    children in the United States under the age of 18 become addicted to cigarettes (ALA‚ 2012). This means that for every three high school seniors graduating this year‚ one will die prematurely from smoking-related disease‚ with 14 years of their life taken away from them (NCES‚ 2012). Experts consider cigarette smoking as the chief preventable cause of premature death in the US‚ yet tobacco is still responsible for 1 in 5 deaths in both men and women every year (Koh‚ 2012). These statistics do not even illustrate

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    WHY QUIT SMOKING? Abstract Smoking cigarette creates major health‚ finance‚ and self-esteem problems. It is a major cause and death and illness to a human body organ. Quit smoking cigarette can stop or lower the risk of many human illnesses and conditions. Why Quit Smoking Cigarettes Cigarette smoking burns up your money (Rawlinson‚ 2013). Just imagine setting a fire and burning $2‚000 every year. It harms every organ in your body. Quitting smoking

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    The first Quit line advertisement depicting Zita Roberts‚ promotes the risks associated with smoking. With the use of an emotive and serious tone‚ they attempt to pull on the audience’s heartstrings which‚ in this case‚ are parents with a family. Quit line attempts to uses Zita’s story to encourage the audience to quit smoking as their life will be shortened if they continued to smoke. At first‚ the readers are drawn to the big‚ bright and bolded words that are placed front and centre of the advertisement

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