AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCT ION Lung disease and cancer is threatening to kill our nation ’s hopes. This is the present concern of health experts because of the alarmingly high number of Filipino youths addicted to smoking and other tobacco products. (Buenavista‚ 2001). Smoking is very common worldwide but even more so in the Philippines‚" according to Dr. Dante Morales‚ former president of the Philippine Heart Association (PHA) and Philippine College of Physicians (PCP). More importantly‚ it
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Smoking should be banned. 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. Today we are more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking should be banned or restricted in almost all public places because it has been shown to be dangerous to health‚
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Cassandra Orheim Bioethical Focus Paper Bans on Smoking Since 1964‚ 2.5 million nonsmokers have died from exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles that include more than 7‚000 chemicals‚ including hundreds that are toxic and about 70 that cause cancer. In children‚ secondhand smoke causes ear infections‚ asthma attacks‚ respiratory infections‚ and respiratory symptoms. In adults who have never smoked‚ secondhand smoke can
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Smoking is a major problem in today. Initially the man get attracted towards it and later it turns into a habit. There are many other diseases. Texts were considered drug abuse is bad. Smoking is a slow poison. It spread in a body slowly. Most have bad effects on the lungs. Because of smoking the man dies quickly. Smoking causes a disease such as cancer and tuberculosis. Smokers do not seem properly hunger. The taste of mouth gets worse. Not foul mouth. For women‚ smoking is more deadly. Some people
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Smoking kills? (Should Smoking be banned in Public Places?) Looking at the health hazards‚ including lung cancer‚ impotency‚ asthma and heart disease‚ which smoking can cause‚ banning it in public places is long time due. However‚ this is just one of the viewpoints. Most smokers and many restaurant owners will sing an altogether different tune with regards to banning smoking in public places. So‚ let’s get to the bottom of this debate by looking at its pros and cons. Arguments for... Let’s
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How many of you in here know someone who smokes? Well‚ today I’m here to talk to you about smoking‚ and how I think it should be illegal. Smoking has already been proven to be the most common killer‚ so why is it legal? American citizens waste Billions of dollars on tobacco each year‚ and it’s funny how other drugs that are way more harmful‚ like crack or marijuana‚ are illegal‚ yet cigarettes aren’t; Even though they are just as harmful. If you think about it‚ cigarettes kill millions of people
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Smoking is accountable for 80% of all lung cancer deaths. Cancer from smoking claims over 100‚000 lives each year‚ smoking can also handicap a person’s physical fitness as in their performance and endurance. Lung and esophagus cancer together claim 87‚000 lives per year. On average someone who smokes a pack or more a day lives seven years less than a non-smoker. Tar lines the inside of your lungs‚ which in turn causes the cancer. Someone who smokes 20 cigarettes a day inhales at least one cup
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Smoking‚ is not an advisable to be a stress reliever. Even the a cigarrete commercial says "Smoking is dangerous to your health." Indeed‚ not only for the person who’s smoking but also for the one inhaling the smoke from the cigarette. It also harm the environment. So why use it? For fun or because you are depressed? No. That’s why when the sintax bill was passed it came to be a good news for me. But here comes the new technology of having electronic cigarettes here in the Philippines. It is not
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DISADVANTAGE OF SMOKING When the last time you see someone smoking?it seems today that most of the youngsters including some of us here think that smoking is something common and we do not have to worry about. But that thinking is wrong. According to history today‚ "each year‚ smoking kills more people than aids‚ alcohol‚ drug abuse‚ car crashes‚ murders‚ suicides and fires---combined!!"Over 430‚000 U.S Citizens die each year from smoking. As college students‚ some of us smoke and some of us have
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Taylor Malseed How Stress Affects Health Stress is any change in your normal routine or health. Stress occurs when bad things happen‚ as well happy things. Getting a raise or promotion is stress‚ just as getting fired from your job is stress. Because of the overabundance of stress in our modern lives‚ we usually think of stress as a negative experience‚ but from a biological point of view‚ stress can be a neutral‚ negative‚ or positive experience. People’s behaviors and stress responses are
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