Original Research The smoking habits‚ attitudes towards smoking and knowledge regarding anti-smoking legislation of students in institutions of higher learning in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa Awotedu AA‚ FMCP (Nig)‚ FCCP‚ FCP (SA-PR)‚ Department of Internal Medicine‚ Walter Sisulu University‚ Mthatha Jordaan ER‚ MSc‚ Biostatistics Unit‚ Medical Research Council of South Africa‚ Tygerberg Ndukwana OZB‚ BACur‚ BACurHons (UNISA)‚ MPH‚ Department of Health Promotion‚ Walter Sisulu University
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Alcohol should be banned from public events What if you were told that mortality in Canada could be reduced by as low as 3000 a year! Would you be willing to accept the terms in order to make this happen? According to Parliament of Canada‚ statics by Collin (2006) reveals “1‚055 person died in alcohol-related road crashes in Canada in 2002” and “666 people died as a result of mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of alcohol.”‚ making alcohol consumption a known risk factor for mortality
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of the factors that trigger cigarette smoking amongst young generation of today‚ effects of cigarette‚ like cancer‚ heart disease‚ emphysema‚ and chronic bronchitis. By reading this paper‚ a person can gain knowledge about the effects of smoking cigarette. So when a person reads this especially those who smoke‚ he or she may quit or lessen smoking because he or she will know the bad effects of cigarette smoking. It is considered that cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death
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Smoking is one of the leading killers in all over the world and innocent people should not die because of it. For years people have been smoking in public thinking “it is my body‚ I can do whatever I want to it‚” but also those around him or her‚ they should not be allowed to smoke around other people in public. As our school‚ many people smoking in front of the While Building. In my opinion‚ school should prohibit smoking in front of the While Building. Smoking is hazardous to people’s health
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Banned Books? A banned book is a book that is restricted from children under the age of eighteen. Many books are banned as a result of it being considered "sexually explicit"‚ "unsuited to any age group" or if the material contains "offensive language". Many books are being banned from children all over the world by public libraries‚ schools‚ parents‚ or even government. No one should have the right to restrict anyone from reading anything except for parents who should only be able
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Teenage Smoking Cigarette smoking is a habit that kills approximately million of people per year. It is surprisingly being picked up by countless amounts of children every day. Smoking becomes a growing trend in the youth community. The number of young smokers has been increasing in most American middle schools and high schools. Both girls and boys are smoking because they think it is cool. Many of them will take this their trend and carry it for their adulthood. The four reasons that cause
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The war on smoking has existed for decades. With the advent of more tenacious laws prohibiting smoking in public locations‚ and most recently Minnesota ’s historic tobacco settlement‚ many actions against "Big Tobacco" have become more successful. Anti-smoking campaigns have become more confrontational‚ directly targeting tobacco companies in an effort to expose its manipulative and illegal marketing tactics. On the surface‚ last November ’s $206 billion settlement agreement between the
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Chapter I Introduction Smoking is a very rampant habit among people nowadays‚ particularly among college students. About 90% of all smokers started as teen smokers. Smoking has a lot of effect to our body and to the behaviour of the smoker as well as to our environment. Scientist has proven that smoking can cause a lot of complications including asthma‚ lung cancer and stomach cancer. Smoking can also cause improvement in reaction and processing time because nicotine is a psychomotor
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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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Cigarettes‚ No Smoking The harm of smoking is a hot issue which has being discussed in many countries for a long time. There are 1.2 billion of smokers in this world‚ which is one-fifth of the world population. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking. Even though people know that cigarette is bad for health‚ they still have freedom of smoking. Nowadays‚ both
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