Cigarettes are highly addictive‚ so why are they legal? What leads the user to continue smoking‚ even when they know that it is harmful for their health? The physiology reason: The inhaled substances trigger chemical reactions in nerve endings within our body. This activity increases heart rate‚ memory‚ alertness‚ and produces a measurably faster reaction time after individuals have smoked. Dopamine and other endorphins are released‚ which are associated with the sensations of pleasure and reward
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Ab Erick Plumeri Page 1 The lecture is trying to point out that in our society STD’s are relevant and spreading. There are two options that work the best to prevent the spreading of STD’s among people. Abstinence is the best way to prevent pregnancy and STD’s. If two people don’t have sex‚ the sperm can’t fertilize an egg and there’s no possibility of a pregnancy. Some forms of birth control
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the risks of smoking? Smoking has two kinds of effects‚ long term and short-term effects. The short term effects happen after a few years of smoking and usually are coughing‚ wheezing‚ dizziness‚ nausea‚ shortness of breath‚ phlegm production‚ bad breath‚ decreased physical fitness and reduced lung function. Although those may not seem bad or even noticeable at the time they are nothing compared to the long-term effects. The long-term effects‚ which happen after years and years of smoking‚ include Emphysema
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uncle so that he says “Oh! Dear how sweet of you...!” Suddenly‚ breaking into my day dreams a boy of 24 or so just like my big brother suited in a detective uniform with black hat‚ and black glasses‚ his face covered came running past me shouting “stop him‚ catch him don’t let him go” and tripped at my feet. I said sorry to him and gave him a hand to get up‚ he got up and gave me a slight push and I felt something tickle down my purse as he wiped his clothes and kept running I thought for a while
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Jacob Brooks Ms. Williams Eng 111 3/22/2013 Persuasive Paper Dangers of Smoking Why in the world would you begin a habit that you know is slowly killing you? That is the question all non smokers are asking. Smoking does nothing but kill you one cigarette at a time. As a son of a smoker I have been around the second hand smoke all my life and smoking doesn’t just only effect the smoker it effects the people around them also. First off some of the chemicals in cigarettes are very harmful to
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Michael Rymar 1/17/14 Cigarettes‚ cigars‚ and pipe tobacco are made from dried tobacco leaves‚ as well as ingredients added for flavor and to make smoking more pleasant. The smoke from these products is a complex mixture of chemicals produced by the burning of tobacco and its additives. The smoke is made up of more than 7‚000 chemicals‚ including over 60 known to cause cancer. Some of these substances cause heart and lung diseases too‚ and all of them can be deadly. Tobacco smoke also contains
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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong4Life campaign features a series of TV and print ads with statements made by overweight children. (Courtesy Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) "Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid‚" read graphics of a TV ad in which a young girl tells of how she doesn’t like going to school because she’s bullied over her weight. It is part of a video and print campaign to combat childhood obesity in Georgia‚ which has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in
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We hear in the news all the time about a teenager committing suicide. We probably don’t even think twice about why the person did it. Thoughts in our brain come to conclusions like‚ maybe he or she had a depression disorder or maybe somebody he or she loved died. It probably never crosses our minds that this particular teenager could have been bullied to death. Fifteen year-old Phoebe Prince‚ a freshman at South Hadley High School was bullied to death. According to New York Times‚ “The taunting started
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knowledge of why everything happens‚ and so much of what goes on in our lives is a mystery to us all. As we grow up‚ we learn more about what is happening and why it’s happening‚ but as a child‚ much of this cannot be explained. In Conroy’s memoir Stop Time‚ he documents his journey to adulthood‚ which is paved with moments of revelations when he begins to learn more about the world and how it works. Through his loss at the town yo-yo competition Conroy learns how to cope with the life he is dealt
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S5 Stop and Press The unthinkable has happen in the world’s history; life has been discovered on another planet. Yes! You heard me correctly new life has been discovered. Remember this day people‚ December 20th‚ 2100. I was given the opportunity to write an article on this extraordinary discovery that I made. I will be able to give anyone who is remotely interesting in this discovery all the hard facts on it. I discovered planet Neo in the year 2080. In the Year 2080 the condition to support
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