wondered just how many people smoke worldwide? According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)‚ about 43.8 million US adults (21.6 percent of men and 16.5 percent of women) or 1 out of 5 adults 18 and older‚ are smokers. Each year as the number of smokers grows‚ so does the number of smoking related illnesses. (www.cancer.org) Smoking affects a person’s outer appearance in a negative manner. They often have yellow teeth‚ bad breath‚ yellow fingernails‚ early skin aging‚ and hair loss
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Australia smoking. The issue of smoking has had an effect on passive smokers and the environment. It should be banned in public places to prevent the community from being harmed and the environment being impacted. According to World Health Organisation (2014) there are over 40% of kids in the world’s population who are passive smokers to their parents from breathing in the toxic fumes in the cigarette. Why it should be ban: Passive Smokers: People who smoke cigarettes in public spaces aren’t aware that
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four reasons. Firstly smoking cause lung cancer‚ heart disease and mouth cancer‚ secondly smokers cannot live happy life‚ thirdly smoking can cause problems to non smokers and lastly cigarette can cost the government a lot of money The first reason to make smoking banned is to minimise disease that effects human. Those diseases are lung cancer‚ heart disease and mouth cancer. This disease cause problem to smokers during smoking. Smoking is bad for our health and can cause many other diseases other
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for organs while on transplant waiting lists. While researchers found that receiving a lung from a donor with a smoking history correlated with worse three-year survival compared to receiving a lung from a donor with no smoking history‚ lungs from smokers should be used to enable patients on waiting list to prolong and improve quality of their life. (Bonser‚ et al‚ 2012) Lung transplants are commonly recommended for patients under the age of 65 who have been diagnosed with severe types of lung and
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familiarity and routine. One of the most common bad habits and addictions among adults is smoking cigarettes. Many smokers are faced with the decision to quit and most often use one of two popular methods‚ quitting cold turkey or quitting with aid. Even though both are methods of achieving the same ultimate goal‚ they are considerably different in how the quitter experiences becoming a non smoker. Quitting cold turkey is the simplest method to quit smoking. There are no outside resources needed. Only
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face of the non-smoker. Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim over 393‚000 American lives each year. Secondhand smoke is a serious health hazard for people of all ages‚ and is estimated to cause close to 50‚000 deaths each year. There should not be smoking in public places because it affects everyone in the area‚ causes cancer to those who don’t smoke‚ and harms young children. Exposing non-smokers to second-hand smoke
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smoking. Based on scientific research‚ every cigarette takes five and a half minutes of life away from a smoker. (American Cancer Society) I see that there is
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Devry University Professor Emily Gorman-Fancy April 06‚2011 Quit Smoking Today | The Dangers of Smoking Cigarettes | Katie Coomes | Quit smoking today! I tell myself that every day and every day it gets harder. Are you a smoker? Do you know someone who does smoke? If so maybe this is what you need to read on reducing your chances of Heart Disease‚ Emphysema and Cancer the moment you quit smoking. No matter your gender or age smoking is the leading cause of death for men and women across the
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Hind Masbout 200800166 hgm05@aub.edu.lb PSPA 203 Hilal Khashan Smoking Behavior and Gender Roles Studies have shown that Lebanon has the second highest percentage of smokers in the Arab region along with the highest rate of female smokers at 35%. About 7% of women in the Arab world smoke. It has come with great relief that the Lebanese parliament has taken up a law to limit smoking and regulate the manufacture‚ packaging and advertising of tobacco products on august 17th‚ 2011. This
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about the issue and the people who don’t care the most and should‚ are the smokers. The smokers are the ones who need to know how bad it really is. It seems the non-smokers are the people who oppose against this topic because they are affected by it too. Everyday 3‚000 children start smoking‚ most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact‚ 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first started smoking as teenagers. These statistics clearly
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