“Cigarette smoking in the Philippines should be banned because it poses a great threat to the health of the family members” Argumentative essay I. Introduction A. It has been an increasing concern about the effects of smoking in the family. B. Cigarette smoking not only affects the smoker but also the others around the smoker. II. Body (Discuss the issue) A. Smoking is mostly caused by sociocultural factors. * They smoke to gain adult status. * They smoke to conform
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Research suggests that the music industry may = be facing a crisis because of the number of young people still illegally downloading music from Internet. The problem has now grown so serious that the numbers of young people who download music from illegal file-sharing websites outnumber those using legal services. According to a survey ‚ 5712 nearly 6000 respondents said they had illegally download or streamed music in the past 12months. Of these‚ 69.5per cent said they did so regularly. The top
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Should Abortion Be Illegal? This essay will ask “Should abortion be illegal?”. Abortion is a specific topic. Many are for the topic‚ however just as many are against it. Abortion is a well debated topic and many religions view it as a sin. Pro-Choice and Pro-Life groups both want to give people the fair rights they deserve. Both groups have good reasons to believe why either the mother ’s rights or the unborn child ’s rights are more important. I will show these reasons and give my own opinion
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E-cigarette use has increased over the past few years and there are arguments on both sides of the topic. Some users use vaping to get nicotine without smoking tobacco‚ hoping to help them quit smoking. Other people are concerned with the fact that people have used e-cigarettes without ever smoking real tobacco before. This is a concern because these people could have an increased chance of using tobacco after being exposed to nicotine. Arguments against e-cigarettes include not completely knowing
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• “Sin taxes” on cigarettes and alcohol are designed to boost revenue‚ not improve public health • Minimum alcohol pricing will exacerbate poverty and entrench inequality without discouraging binge drinking • Most of the costs of drinking and smoking fall on individual consumers‚ not the public. There is no economic justification for increasing taxes on smokers and drinkers. In a report released today‚ The Wages of Sin Taxes (Download PDF) by Christopher Snowdon‚ the Adam Smith Institute condemns
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www.wwf.org.uk Illegal Wildlife Trade By: Elianny Rodriguez Hypothesis ▪ The illegal wildlife trade is decreasing biodiversity in ecosystems and pushing rare species toward extinction. www.usatoday.com Wildlife trade http://worldwildlife.o rg/ A study released in 2013 found that illegal trade in wildlife is the forth largest illegal trade and was valued at over $19 billion per year. ▪ It is known that the trade is used to finance drug and arms trade as well. ▪ In 2011 23 metric tons of
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Cigarette law reinforced Have you ever been around someone smoking? Yuck right‚ well almost half of the world’s children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke‚ which worsens asthma and causes dangerous disease. America has a problem with smoking‚ an estimated 430‚000 Americans die each year from the effects of cigarette smoking. But the real problem is not just people smoking but it is when people toss their cigarette buds out their car window. About 240 million cigarette buds are thrown on the
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| HEALTH-PHILIPPINES Young Lives Up in Smoke By Kara Santos | MANILA‚ Feb 15‚ 2010 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking‚ Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. "The younger a child starts to smoke‚ the greater the chances of becoming a regular smoker‚" said Dr Maricar Limpin‚ executive director of the non- government group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines
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THE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE TO PHOTOSYNTHESIS Increased Carbon Dioxide Smoke of all kinds‚ including cigarette smoke‚ increases the amount of carbon dioxide where it is present (since smoke is itself produced via combustion). Plants use carbon dioxide to make sugars (during photosynthesis). Its increased abundance‚ therefore‚ makes it easier for the plant to obtain. Thus‚ smoking near a plant actually makes it easier for that plant to obtain much-needed carbon dioxide. Hampering Photosynthesis
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Illegal Street Racing It would seem that the import car scene is becoming one of the largest trends in the automotive industry since the introduction of the assembly line. Nearly every manufacturer of vehicles has a sport compact car in the market. Teenagers and other young adults are customizing and “souping” these cars up for purposes that no car was intended for‚ illegal street racing. These speed contests on public roads are a danger to anything and everything on the roads‚ including the driver
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