wounding of numerous police officers in a highly publicized shootout with bank robbers in California raised the issue of the need to ban certain types of weapons. For nearly a decade‚ the need for an assault weapons ban was a hotly debated subject. In 1994‚ Congress succumbed to public pressure and passed the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Eventually‚ the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was proven to be an impotent piece of legislation due to it’s ineffectiveness in banning true assault weapons‚ its near uselessness
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Essay: “All research carried out in the past 50 years has proved that smoking is harmful for passive and active smokers alike. A ban on smoking in all public places with immediate effect is therefore the only reasonable option.” Did you ever deeply inhale the cold cloud of smoke of someone standing in a public place? Every one of us faces these situations to a greater or lesser extent. No matter if it happens indoors or outdoors‚ non- smokers never benefit from it. The question is‚ why smokers
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INTRODUCTION Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco or cannabis‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use‚ as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes‚ primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling
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Is Smoking Suicide? Tobacco use is directly related to lung cancer in ninety percent of males and eighty percent of women. Also tobacco use is directly linked to twenty percent of heart disease. What this says to me is that using tobacco is essentially suicide. So‚ yes tobacco use is suicide and tobacco leads to an estimated five million deaths every year. Mean while seventy percent of those five million deaths are in under developed countries. I believe the reason three and a half million people
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Ban on Public Smoking at the National Mall Regardless of location‚ everyone deserves to have certain liberties. As long as these liberties do not impede upon the liberties or safety of others‚ then they should be exercised within reason. Everyone has a right to choose which risks they will take and which they will not. Smoking poses safety‚ environmental‚ and social consequences. Because everyone deserves the right to choose which consequences and health hazards they want to be exposed to‚ all outdoor
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SMOKING: The enemy of life By-Rheiya Smoking! There isn’t any benefit of smoking and the problems are infinite still people don’t quit smoking. The main reason why people smoke is for fashion. Most of the smokers are the college students because that’s the time when one pays a lot of attention on fashion and tries to be cool. The effects of smoking are only harmful. The worst effect of smoking is it not only harms the smokers but even the one’s who did no fault‚ the one’s inhaling the harmful
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choice and it’s controversial‚ and that’s why I’m pro-choice‚ because I want people to make their own choices.” -Hillary Clinton. Abortion has been a contentious argument that has arisen in the United States over 2 centuries ago‚ and has been an fiery debate ever since. Citizens and politicians have been faced with two different arguments: one side‚ pro- choice‚ states that women should be able to choose the fate of their fetus‚ while the rebuttal‚ pro- life‚ asserts that all fetuses should be given
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Main Point 1: A. As we have heard in Lisa’s speech‚ smoking is bad for the smoking individual. 1. Active cigarette smoking is the major cause of lung cancer and an important established cause of cardiovascular disease. B. According to U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ smoking is bad for the people nearby the smoker due to second hand smoke. 1. Exposure to second hand smoke has been associated with numerous negative health outcomes. It is sufficient to induce pulmonary inflammation‚ decrease
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‚ there’re 443‚000 people die annually because of smoking. And the number of people dying in the whole world is 5milllions people. This number is bigger than the number of people die because of accident‚ AIDS‚ tuberculosis combined. Smoking is the main reason for some cancers‚ including lung cancer.. It also increases the risk of having emphysema‚ asthma‚ cataracts and pneumonia. Smoking is bad for everyone. For women‚ if you start smoking‚ you will lost average 14.5years of your life. A pregnant
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To quit smoking is one of the most important measures one can take to eliminate a possible cause of death. Estimates say that about half of the people who don’t quit smoking will die of smoking-related health issues. While the health benefits are numerous‚ there are several other reasons to quit smoking. The following are some reasons why you should quit smoking. Money Money is a great motivator‚ and you will save tons of it if you quit smoking. It may surprise you to know that you’ll probably
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