Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim more than 480‚000 American lives each year. Smoking cost the U.S. at least $289 billion each year‚ including at least $150 billion in lost productivity and $130 billion in direct healthcare expenditures. Cigarette smoke contains more than 7‚000 chemicals‚ at least 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Smoking can lead to nicotine addiction. It changes your brain and it develops extra
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and Effect – Smoking The prohibition of smoking has become more and more wide-spread in the United States today. Due to studies that show smoking is related to many illnesses‚ people have made safe guards to prevent from acquiring them. One of those safe guards is prohibiting smoking in public environments. Other than the obvious health risks smoking causes‚ it can also set the wrong example for young adults and children‚ and could also damage the health of non-smokers. Health reasons are at
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Individual Project 5 ENGL106-1103B-216 English Composition I People Smoking in Public Areas By: Mia Boyd 09/24/11 Individual Project 4 Abstract: This an essay about how people’s bad habits can get them banned from public places‚ aka smoking. This essay’s issue is about smoking banned in most of all public places. There is no point in endangering your health and also someone else’s in these public places. Individual Project 5 You are harming other people while you smoke
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Stop Smoking Cigarettes I think that Americans should stop smoking cigarettes. First‚ cigarettes are very bad for the body’s health. Second‚ smoking cigarettes is a very expensive habit. Finally‚ people should stop smoking because not only is it bad for your health but it is also bad for the appearance. Americans should stop smoking cigarettes since it is so detrimental to there health. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30%
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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF SMOKING p.1 Scientists and health officials have been arguing the detrimental effects smoking has on our health for many years. Smoking can lead to serious complications including asthma‚ pancreas‚ lung and stomach cancer due to the large number of carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals) and other various substances added to it. It is a health hazard for both smokers and non-smokers and it is especially harmful to unborn babies. Although smokers claim that it helps them to
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CURRENT SMOKING AMONG TEENAGERS Daniel Homn‚ Ph.D. THE SURVEY on which I am reporting was done for the Public Health Service from late December 1967 through early February 1968 by the Chilton Research Services of Philadelphia. The figures are based on telephone interviews conducted as a representative sample of the 85 percent of the U.S. households which have telephone service. These figures are being augmented by personal interviews in households without telephones. Households without telephones
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Danielle Delmonte Ms. Therriault English 3 18 November 2013 Smoking Gun Imagine a world that is smoke free. Everyday people are dying or being hospitalized for years of smoking. No one is taking this situation seriously. Company owners think if they just make a few places smoke free it is going to fix everything‚ but it will not. Smoking cigarettes is extremely dangerous. Smoking Cigarettes should be made illegal. They are harmful to the human body and will destroy in a slow process.
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of Smoking Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the dangers of smoking and persuade them not to. Introduction: 1. Did you know that smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States? 2. According to cancer.org there is 440‚000 deaths a year caused by tobacco. 3. On average every smoker costs their employer almost 2‚000 dollars a year in lost labor. By the end of the speech‚ the audience will be informed about the dangers of smoking and
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into the habit of smoking‚ which has always been one of the hot topics that everyone is debating. It’s clear that this habit has its negative and possitive effects on both smokers and society. Smoking is considered to be a bad habit greatly effecting smokers’ own health and their social lives. Firstly‚ lifelong smokers are bound to have a shorter life expectancy due to chronic diseases caused by smoking such as lung cancer‚ emphysema and heart attacks. In addition to the health aspect‚ smokers are
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Hi‚ the topic that I have chosen for my speech is “that smoking causes death” well that’s a pretty boring topic right .I’m going to be talking about the main effects‚ how many people die each year things like that. So do you want to die before reaching the age of 30? 1. Smoking has a massive effect on health; smoking causes around 5000 deaths in New Zealand each year. 1.3 billion people smoke around the world. Smoking causes 1 in 4 cancer deaths in New Zealand including cancers in the lung‚
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