Smoking kills? (Should Smoking be banned in Public Places?) Looking at the health hazards‚ including lung cancer‚ impotency‚ asthma and heart disease‚ which smoking can cause‚ banning it in public places is long time due. However‚ this is just one of the viewpoints. Most smokers and many restaurant owners will sing an altogether different tune with regards to banning smoking in public places. So‚ let’s get to the bottom of this debate by looking at its pros and cons. Arguments for... Let’s
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common aspect between depression and alcoholism. Although depression and alcoholism is considered to be from an individual’s standpoint‚ these diseases can cause an individual from not contributing to society. Society can be compare to a bicycle‚ whereas each individual can be compare to a link from the bicycle chain‚ and the bicycle needs the chain to keep moving forward. However‚ if the bicycle chain is damaged from wear and tear (depression and alcoholism)‚ then the bicycle will lose its purpose
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Marketing Research Alcohol Abuse of Ateneo College Students: An Assessment I. Introduction One of the ways in which communication functions is in the creation and maintenance of the ways in which using and abusing substances‚ especially alcohol‚ are talked about and treated. When‚ for example‚ society considered the use of alcohol to be a social sin‚ its use is banned. "Prohibition" is the name given to the era during which it was illegal in Davao City to buy‚ sell‚ and drink alcohol after 2am‚ especially
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Alcoholism: Supported by Empirical Research Ellie Smith Vanderbilt University Abstract Globally‚ alcohol abuse disorders have become a problem for seventy-six million people (Orford‚ Natera‚ Copello‚ Atkinson‚ 2005). Addiction is a disease‚ not merely a social disorder. The disease not only affects the inflicted individuals‚ but can also be detrimental to family members and the greater community. Causes of addiction can be grouped into three categories: psychological traits
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"Alcohol abuse on college campuses has reached a point where it is far more destructive than most people and today realize and today threatens too many of our youth." -Senator Joe Lieberman Why do college students drink so much? This timeless fad has effected this generation in high percentages since the beginning of college education. Today in America it is estimated that approximately 29% of college students are regular alcohol abusers. Another recent study by the National Institute of Alcohol
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article Alcoholism and Genes was mainly concerning the issue between a person’s genes and how it can affect if they develop alcoholism in their later years. This occurs with the development of the ALDH1‚ which seems to be more present in the Asian race rather than the European community due to their blood. The ALDH1 gene breaks down acetaldehyde (breakdown product of alcohol) and when there is a different variation in a person’s genes‚ the enzyme works slower. In Asians‚ when they have alcohol‚ the
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RESEARCH CASE STUDY: PERSONAL INTERVIEWED - ALCOHOL ABUSE Jennifer Campbell Theories of Personality (PSY 500A) Lynn University December 6‚ 2012 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to create a case study based on a specific theory of personality development. Kelly (1969) stated that personality theory presents a positive view of human nature (Schultz‚ & Schultz‚ 2009). The combination of cognitive and behavioral‚ together forms the infrastructure of the individual ’s personality;
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Love or Dependence? Romance can cause both men and women to act frivolously‚ which makes the difference between love and lust difficult to distinguish. The desire of another human being leads to irrational thought and actions. Sometimes one will create sensations of love where no love exists. As demonstrated in both William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron‚ and Po Hsing-Chien’s The Story of Miss Li one may create feelings of love in order to overcome a recent
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Alcoholism in Hungary The effects of excessive drinking among young people. Bad influence or just having occasional fun? 1. Introducing the problem Immoderate drinking and its consequences cause a lot of problem today in Hungary. Approximately every tenth person has problems with alcohol and beside this our society is very forgiving towards this fact. 8000 people die because of drinking every year. Average a Hungarian person drinks 12 liters of clean alcohol yearly‚ and this is higher and higher
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Alcoholism Is alcoholism caused by a lack of will power ? Alcoholism is a brain disease that is outside the control of the drinker. Brain Patterns May Help Predict Relapse Risk for Alcoholism Distinct patterns of brain activity are linked to greater rates of relapse among alcohol dependent patients in early recovery‚ a study has found. The research‚ supported by the National Institutes of Health‚ may give clues about which people in recovery from alcoholism are most likely
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