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    Cigarette smoking kills nearly 430‚000 people every year‚ making it more lethal than car accidents and drug overdoses just to name a few. A smoker’s life expectancy is reduced by 15 to 25 years and is the single most preventable cause of death. With lung cancer being a primary result of cigarette smoking‚ there are also a wide array of other lung problems that occur as a result of smoking. Cigarettes contain 4000 chemicals‚ most of them are toxic. These ingredients affect everything from proper

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    those 26% affect 100% of us. In this day and age‚ smoking becomes common things for people. They always smoke without concern about the surroundings. Some people think smoking can liberate their tension and can relax their mind. How about the nonsmoker? A number of diseases can be caught from second hand smoking‚ or passive smoking‚ including a number of cancers throughout the body like emphysema‚ asthma‚ bronchitis‚ lung cancer‚ heart disease‚ cardiovascular problems‚ and even SIDS (sudden infant

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    recent studies drawn from managed care organizations to estimate the relative costs of the obese and overweight compared to the nonoverweight. A survey that used people ranging from 35 to 64 years old that had self-reported BMIs greater than 20‚ nonsmokers‚ and no history of heart disease. In this study they

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    Studies indicate that nonsmokers are also adversely affected by environmental tobacco smoke. There are 4000 chemicals in tobacco with 100 identified poisons and 63 known drugs which cause cancer.  The most talked about drug in tobacco is nicotine.  Nicotine is vasoconstrictor and a nerve toxin‚ it has been classified as a class I insecticide.   Other poisons include:  Arsenic‚ Cyanide‚ Formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies)‚ Ammonia Bromide (a toilet cleaner )- Ref. 1.  Each year‚ because of exposure

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    Public Health Campaign The topic of my public health campaign is cigarette smoking. So often‚ our children are exposed to smoking whether it’s through their home‚ friends or environment. Society even deems smoking as “cool” and that draws more people to start smoking. The youngest smokers have the idea that I won’t be affected because I’m young and nothing will happen to me. Little do they know that it only takes 1 cigarette to start an addiction. Cigarettes contain the compound nicotine which is

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    Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a tragic death of an infant under the age of 12 months. Sometimes the parents are left with no explanation of what happened and there was no way to prevent it. It is very important to teach the parent precautions to take to reduce the risk of SIDS. Sudden infant death syndrome is the unexplained death of an infant‚ and although there is sometimes no way to prevent it‚ there are some protective measures that can be taken.

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    Smoking in Public: Ban

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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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    Lung Cancer

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    Lung Cancer The deadliest kind of cancer is lung cancer. People suffer each year from its devastating and lasting effects. It is the foremost cause of cancer death and is the second most common type of cancer. Men and women both have lung cancer. It affects over 200‚000 people every year in the United States. 116‚900 men and 103‚350 women were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009 according to the American Cancer Society. Also‚ 159‚390 people have died from lung cancer in this year. African American

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    Ethics in the Workplace

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    Ethics in Management – PHL 323 Ethics in the Workplace Case Study Action Plan Learning Team B: Cynthia Gibbs Elizabeth Hedden Dr. Christopher Klein‚ Facilitator December 11‚ 2005 Ethics in the Workplace Case Study Action Plan Introduction In 2003‚ Weyco Inc.‚ a licensed third party medical benefits administrator based in Okemos‚ Michigan‚ announced that effective January 1‚ 2005‚ they would no longer hire smokers (http://www.weyco.com/web/). They were changing their policy to a Tobacco-Free

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    Harmful Effects of Smoking

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    Every year thousands of people die because of lung cancer or other tobacco related illnesses. Everyone in the world comes in contact with smoke from a cigarette at least once in their lifetime‚ whether it is at a restaurant or at work. Millions of people are addicted to smoking‚ and thousands more become addicted every year. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are everywhere. Most of the addicted smokers started when they were young (Roberts 18). The reason why people get addicted

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