The Control and Monitoring of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy 1.1 Introduction When it comes to the topic of women and pregnancy there is much debate and controversy surrounding what a woman should and should not do with her body. A reason for this is that a woman is not only caring for herself but for another human being‚ as pregnancy entails “having a child or young developing in the uterus” (Oxford Dictionaries‚ 2016). This is why smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy
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Say No To Smoking There are drugs in the world that are hurting us all. The drug that I am going to talk about is the drug found in cigarettes: nicotine. Although some good people do no think that smoking cigarettes will directly affect their lives‚ they are wrong because smoking is nothing but a shortcut to dying. Smoking is not a joke‚ although we see it on TV‚ in comics‚ and maybe right in front of our faces‚ it does affect our health. Did you ever take a close look at the bottom of the cigarette
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are a great number of people getting into the habit of smoking‚ which has always been one of the hot topics that everyone is debating. It’s clear that this habit has its negative and possitive effects on both smokers and society. Smoking is considered to be a bad habit greatly effecting smokers’ own health and their social lives. Firstly‚ lifelong smokers are bound to have a shorter life expectancy due to chronic diseases caused by smoking such as lung cancer‚ emphysema and heart attacks. In addition
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Smoking in Public: Smoking Ban The argument on Smoking tobacco and other method of smoking use in public should be ban. The use of smoking tobacco has number one concerns to nonsmokers have health effects on people who choose to smoke in a public place or private places. The study argues that Americans died every year from harmful effects and other diseases related to smoking. This habit of smoking indicates that smoking cigarette disturb non-smokers or secondhand smoking. Also‚ contributes
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Amit Parmar English 2010 MW 3pm- 4:15pm 02/12/14 Ready to Quit Smoking? Tobacco is the most preventable cause of death in the United States. An estimated 443‚000 people prematurely die from smoking cigarettes. It also causes serious illnesses‚ such as Coronary heart disease‚ lung cancer‚ and oral cancer. 46.6 million Americans continue to smoke despite their knowledge of these risks (CDC). How hard is it to quit smoking? Nicotine is in fact one of the most addicting substances in society. Some
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tobacco smoking the most harmful of bad habits‚ since it adversely affects not only the person addicted to cigarette or cigar smoking‚ but also those around the smoker‚ who involuntarily inhale the smoke. Statistical reports on the impact of smoking on Americans show that 269‚655 deaths annually among men and 173‚940 deaths annually among women are tobacco related. Some people might argue that the odds of AIDS‚ car accidents and homicides taking one’s life‚ are greater than smoking a couple
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Question 2: “Smoking rates among the general population have declined dramatically in the past decades”. (Cancer Council NSW) This can be largely attributed to effective health promotion. Explain how health promotion initiatives based on the Ottawa Charter have contributed to positive health outcomes in the area of tobacco use. (450 – 600 words) The Ottawa Charter is a global health promotion run by the World Health Organisation. It involves five action areas: developing personal skills
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• Narrative tasks may require you to write a story or part of a story; they may also ask you to write a true account. The purpose of your writing is to entertain the reader through the situation you have imagined and also to explore that situation and the characters involved in it • Remember how much time you have in the exam. Don’t try to write too complicated a story. Examiners want quality not quantity. • Don’t fill your writing with direct speech; it causes problems with punctuation and it’s
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Should Smoking Be Banned? Smoking has become one of the leading killers in the world ever since it was produced. It results in chronic diseases and in some cases even death of the individuals. Innocent people shouldn’t die because of it. According to various health reports published in medical journals‚ it has been clearly stated that a huge section of the society is under threat of facing premature deaths or grave diseases. There has been much research into smoking‚ why it should be
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Alcohol‚ Smoking and Drugs Before anyone ever takes a hit‚ or a drink‚ or a smoke‚ there is a decision made in the mind - a healthy decision or an unhealthy one. Sometimes as ourselves making a healthy choice is hard because we are tired‚ stressed‚ angry‚ pressured‚ or influenced by another person - e.g why we end up eating chocolate instead of fruit as eating things like chocolate stimulates our minds. As nicotine is legal to take at the age of 16 by law it has become a well known behaviour for
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