I am a firm believer of Pit-bulls making good pets. They can be as vicious as a pup if raised correctly. Yes‚ they can and will be protective at times‚ but that is because they adore you‚ not because they are blood-thirsty beasts. Some states are passing laws to make these adorable‚ caring dogs illegal‚ which I stand against completely. If that should be the case‚ however‚ all dogs should be illegal‚ not just one breed. Chihuahuas are usually more aggressive than Pit-bulls. According to studies
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A 2009 law approved by congress‚ the Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act increased the federal tax on cigarette prices by 61 cents. Recently the Obama Administration’s budget request for FY 2016 calls for increasing the federal tobacco tax by 94 cents‚ to a total of $1.95 per pack. The federal revenue funds the State Health Insurance Children’s Program; also‚ states can impose their own tax on tobacco (Fiscal Year 2016 Budget of the U.S. Government). The raise in tobacco tax was passed
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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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commercial comes on and portrays a man with a whole in his throat‚ with a breathing mechanism keeping him alive and a voice box speaking for him. He says that smoking cigarettes were the cause of his cancer‚ which then he needed this surgery to stay alive. After watching this graphic commercial‚ would you be less likely to smoke cigarettes? That’s the argument I am critically evaluating throughout this paper. This concept that I just exposed is referred to as a fear appeal‚ which can be described as
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Kelvin Omogbeme CIGARETTE SMOKING SHOULD BE BANNED IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHER ILLEGAL DRUGS Tobacco is one of the most widely used drugs in the world‚ mainly in the form of a cigarette. Although most countries have tried to restrict the use of tobacco‚ people still smoke everyday despite the fact that it is poisonous and harmful to their health. Cigarette smoking has been part of our lives for many decades now. Whether cigarettes should be banned or not becomes an object of controversy for many countries
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Believe it or not the Electronic Cigarette has been around for a long time‚ like since the 1960s. However‚ in 2013 electronic cigarette became a hot item and had many new smokers and regular tobacco users switching to this new way of smoking. This new found technology even has a new term‚ individuals no longer smoke‚ they vape. It seems that the entire world is going “electronic”‚ electronic mail‚ electronic billing‚ Americans even prefer to talk through electronics…so why not smoke electronically
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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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7Wa Poaching is the illegal practice of trespassing on another’s property to hunt. It has been illegal for hundreds of years‚ but it was during the Late Middle Ages that poaching became a punishable offense. As people illegally hunt certain animal species for profit or for the sport of it‚ more and more of these favored animals are becoming extinct‚ animals that are normally prey are increasing in population‚ and more vegetations are being eaten and destroyed. Most poaching is committed mostly
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families were sad‚ because they had went bankrupt because of the great expensive of treating the sick at the hospital but now they were despairing as their sons and daughters were dying. Cigarette smoking should be banned‚ because it’s hazardous for people’s health‚ and it is also very expensive. First of all‚ cigarettes contain four thousand chemicals in it‚ and 69 are known to cause cancer! First-hand smokers get yellow teeth‚ skin‚ and fingernails from smoking too much. They are also known to get
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Apo Period 1 18 September 2013 Fighting for Legal Rights The question of whether to let Illegal Immigrants become legal citizens has been a heated debate for decades. Illegal immigrants should have free will and independence just like the rest of the legal citizens. Immigrants leaving their country‚ looking for a job‚ and trying to find a better life just to create a more. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to be legal citizens due to having more freedom and rights in what they want
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