(53%) said they buy their own cigarettes‚ while 30% got them from friends in Malaysia‚ 55% of the adolescent smokers smoke less than 10 sticks per day in Kelantan‚ 95% of shops sold cigarettes to minors without verifying their age. There are over 80‚000 retail outlets selling cigarettes throughout the country and are located near schools. About 31% of teenage boys and 5.3% of girls are smokers. Australia and Singapore have high tobacco tax and successfully reduced smoking among adolescents as a pack
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is the issue of smoking in the public places. The British Medical Health Association research has found that at least 1‚000 people die in the UK every year as results of passive tobacco smoke. Other people tobacco smoke increases the chance of non-smokers contracting fatal heart‚ lung and asthmatic diseases has now led the UK government introducing laws to ban smoking in all public places. Such a ban will come into force in England on 1st July 2007 (BBC News‚ 2007). This ban covers all public places
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to boys actually some of them may start smoking because they saw someone they liked smoking and thought it was cool. There are the reasons why the smokers smoking‚ effect of smoking to human body and the effect to the non-smokers. First of all‚ there are many causes which make people smoke and the effect of smoking to their health. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress‚ the negative aspects of the habit take over the positive. As it has been stressed by the scientists
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DON’T KNOW 97 = REFUSED 98 = BLANK (NO ANSWER) Number of Menthol Smokers in the U.S. Among smokers aged 12 – 17 years‚ 1.1 million menthol smokers Among smokers aged 18 years or older‚ 18.1 million menthol smokers A total of 19.2 million menthol cigarette smokers African American Smokers More Likely to Smoke Menthol Cigarettes Than Other Racial/Ethnic Groups Percent Menthol Cigarette Use among Past Month Cigarette Smokers Aged 12
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Disease Control and Prevention 2006). In an effort to discourage people from smoking and prevent passive smoking‚ many limitations have been place on where to smoke in public places and businesses. This sometimes resulted in fiction between smokers and non-smokers. In this research proposal‚ a similar situation will be address. Problem Statement The problem is that non-smoking employees contend that employees who smoke are less productive because of the smoking breaks they take. Research Purpose
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that Effect Nonsmokers and Smokers Kayla Forbes 2-15-12 Bio Lab 140/77 Hilde Stawski Abstract: The goal of this experiment was to find out how smoking affected nonsmokers‚ light smokers‚ and heavy smokers heart rate during cardiovascular endurance. The participants will record their pulse rate before and after every minute for six minutes after the step test. As predicted‚ the heavy smokers had an increase in pulse rate that was twice as high as the light smokers and nonsmokers who had similar
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effects of the second hand smoker than it does on the actual smoker. Smoking should be banned in public places all throughout the U.S. because of the risks associated with second hand smoking‚ banning smoking in public places increases the economy of the U.S. by reducing health care costs and ‚ and the percent of smokers drops every time smoking is banned. Second hand smoking is a proven killer and has worse effects on the second hand smoker than it does on the actual smoker therefore making smoking
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Joliffe English 1301 17 October 2010 Smokers Smoking tobacco has been around for many thousands of years and cigarettes specifically have been around for a few thousand as well. Smoking can be split up into several classifications with three of the primary ones being those people who smoke to reduce tension‚ people who socially smoke and habit smokers. Regardless of the type of smoker a person is‚ smoking is an addiction and harmful not only to the smoker but to family members‚ coworkers and any
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Smokers vs. Non smokers The topic of smoking is a controversy issue among different society. There are so many people that are smokers in today’s society. The smokers believe there is no harm in smoking‚ to themselves and to others around them. Then there are nonsmokers that believe smoking can cause health issues and also can cause harm to people that is exposed to second hand smoking and also can cause damage to the environment. With this being said‚ there are many pros and cons of smoking.
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public places. Second hand smoke is very dangerous because it can cause nicotine and other bad chemicals to enter the secondhand smoker’s lungs. Secondhand smoke can damage the body in the same way as the smoker smoking the cigarettes. Secondhand smoke can lead to the same health problems as a smoker‚ such as lung cancer‚ heart disease and in an infants case it can lead to upper respiratory infections. The American Lung Association reports that secondhand smoke also causes at least 150‚000 respiratory
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