How much alcohol do teens use? Alcohol is the most frequently used drug by teenagers in the United States. About half of junior high and senior high school students drink alcohol on a monthly basis‚ and 14% of teens have been intoxicated at least once in the past year. Nearly 8% of teens who drink say they drink at least five or more alcoholic drinks in a row (binge drink). What are the dangerous effects of alcohol use in teens? Just a few of the many dangerous effects of alcohol use in teens
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d 1. Financial reports are used by a.|management| b.|creditors| c.|investors| d.|all are correct| C 2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a corporation? a.|Corporations are organized as a separate legal taxable entity.| b.|Ownership is divided into shares of stock.| c.|Corporations experience an ease in obtaining large amounts of resources by issuing stock.| d.|A corporation’s resources are limited to their individual stockholders’ resources.| D 3. Which of the following are guidelines
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Sin taxes a burden on consumers With sin taxes constantly rising consumers must wonder who is paying for the tax that is levied on the good or service. For some goods and services the tax is shared but tax on other goods and services‚ depending on the elasticity of the demand or supply‚ are sometimes completely paid by the consumer or producer. Sin taxes are a tax levied on products or services that is supposed to help the government correct the damages that the product or service causes.
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Alcohol will be banned when people will understand that alcohol is bad. The damage alcohol does to a person is indeed considerable. Like all drugs that have an effect on the brain‚ alcohol soon has one addicted. The side-effects of alcohol consumption are poor health‚ impaired judgment‚ violence‚ broken careers‚ broken families‚ lost opportunities‚ lost fortunes‚ incoherence and disorientation in society. I doubt that talking and preaching about the evil effects of alcohol will have a substantial
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Major Tobacco Companies Paying for Public Health Care? Edna Hacker once said‚ “No company should be made to pay because people misuse its products.” Major tobacco companies have paid financial settlements to several states funding health care for smoking related illnesses. Should fast food restaurants pay health costs for obesity related illnesses? Customers abusing a company’s products is out of the companies control‚ and consumers should be required to pay for their own medical costs. While some
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Smokeless Tobacco A Rising Trend with Today ’s Youth By July 3‚ 2001 Abstract The consumption of tobacco is probably the most harmful thing you can do to your body and health. Most people that consume tobacco do so in the form of a cigarette‚ but lately there has been another form of tobacco that is cause for concern among younger age groups: smokeless tobacco. Smokeless tobacco contains the same addictive nicotine found in a cigarette but it is chewed rather than smoked. The tobacco or plug
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Caudell English 9 Block 2 Research Paper 12/6/13 Smokeless Tobacco VS Cigarettes Smokeless tobacco‚ also known as dip and chewing tobacco‚ is tobacco that you put in your lip. Most of the people that use smokeless tobacco start at a young age. Then you have cigarettes that are nearly twice as harmful to your body. The smoking of tobacco gives you a better chance at getting cancer in your lungs and mouth. That is why smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative but safer that smoking.
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Tobacco Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world‚ directly and indirectly responsible for 440‚000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools‚ libraries‚ childcare‚ etc. Because it takes approximately eight seconds for nicotine to reach the brain and each
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Our Christian life is based on the word of God and nothing else. As a Christian we are held to a higher standard. We should abstain from alcoholic drink. The bible clearly shows that drinking alcoholic beverages result in cheating‚ hypocrisy‚ pride‚ and blasphemy. The spiritual damage caused is not worth it‚ not only that but the physical health problems as well. Christians should act responsibly concerning their personal testimony and influence. Romans 14:21 “Do not do anything that will hurt your
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built and it costs a lot of money‚ the government relies on the people to pay taxes‚ to
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