Have you ever wondered what kind of effects tobacco has on the average high school student athlete? Tobacco can not only affect the player’s athletic performance but can also lead to many harmful side-effects later on in their life. A recent study shows that in over a decade numbers of high school athletes that use smokeless tobacco has grown from 5-6% to 10-11% ( CDC‚ 2015). When used so early in a person’s life‚ tobacco can cause smaller lungs‚ DNA damage that can later lead to cancer‚ and cardiovascular
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Cigarettes Should be Made Illegal Tobacco has been in America for nearly 8000 years. It started being cultivated and used for pleasure around 2000 years ago. (Cancer Council) People have been using it for a very long time. That means that the past 2000 years‚ it has been causing hundreds-of-thousands of deaths. Tobacco is widely known for its cancer-causing ways. The assumption could be made that people would stray away from it. The reality is that people constantly use tobacco products. In 2006‚ consumers
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nine out of 10 cancer deaths according to the American Cancer Society. The expense of smoking is going up every year and the cost to the individual smoking is significant. For example‚ if a person smokes one pack a day for 20 years‚ that equals to 7305 packs of cigarettes. If the cost of cigarettes stay at $5 per pack (which it won’t) that is a total of $36‚505 spent on cigarettes. There is also a cost to our health care system. According to the American Lung Association‚ smoking costs "the United
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The British returned in force in August 1776‚ landing in New York and engaging the fledgling Continental Army at the Battle of Brooklyn in one of the largest engagements of the war. They eventually seized New York City and nearly captured General Washington. The British made the city their main political and military base of operations in North America‚ holding it until 1783‚ when they relinquished it under the terms of the Treaty of Paris. Patriot evacuation and British military occupation made
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Introduction Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited was incorporated in 1947 immediately after partition‚ when it took over the business of the Imperial Tobacco Company of India which had been operational in the subcontinent since 1905. PTC is the part of the trans-national British American Tobacco Group (BAT)‚ one of the world’s most international business groups. In more than 100 years of British American Tobacco’s existence‚ the Group of companies has traded through the turbulence of wars‚ revolutions
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Tobacco is one of the main products that affect our children today. Companies that distribute these products do not think about who is getting affected by their product‚ but think about the profit they will make from selling their product. Big companies like Philip Morris who sell Marlboro‚ Basic‚ Virginia Slim and many other types of tobacco target young adults. Gene Emery quoted "the amount spent on tobacco advertising is targeting youngsters". Some points Gene Emery presents are quiet different
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Early British North American colonies Jamestown‚ Virginia was founded in 1609 by the Plymouth group. Their goals were to create a town that had livestock‚ crops‚ homes & land for the settlers. At first there was death from the diseases‚ then when their immune systems built up there become order‚ governed by Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale. They organized workers‚ disciplined and sentenced offenders‚ and gave incentives to workers like ownership of land in trade for work for the company
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the free advertising as a benefit to their company at no cost. The cigarette market is a clear example of an oligopoly market because it is mostly run by a few large firms such as Philip Morris USA‚ Commonwealth Inc‚ Lorillard Inc and Reynolds American Inc. Due to the fact that an oligopoly market is hard to not only come into but also basically controlled by these large firms any new competitor is going to have a difficult time entering this market‚ being profitable in comparison to these firms
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Tobacco cultivation in Pakistan Tobacco belongs to family Solonaceae and genus Nicotiana. It has four species but only two of them are cultivated around the globe. These include Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica. Cultivated species of tobacco contains 36 or 48 chromosomes while 24 chromosomes are found in wilds species. It has terminal raceme inflorescence which may contain 150 flowers. Its seed is very small 2000-5000 seeds per 2-valved capsule. It is an annual plant with tap root system
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HOW DOES TOBACCO LINK BRITAIN’S EMPIRE AND AMERICA’S DEVELOPMENT FROM 1600 ONWARDS? The key element‚ tobacco‚ was the vital reason for America’s development and the British Empire’s throughout the 17th and 18th century. The demand for tobacco and the trade involving tobacco helped the British Empire thrive as well as lead to America’s independence. During the early 1600’s Britain’s main drive towards economy was agriculture. Eventhough they flourished in that section the economy itself wasn’t
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