We have all been to places that allow smoking outside the doors‚ It is a horrible experience. You walk out the doors and are greeted by a big smelly puff of stinky smoke‚ and dirty ashtrays with lit cigarettes smoldering in them. Not very pleasant‚ this is why I feel that CTC should remain a smoke free campus. Smoking is dirty‚ is a potential fire danger‚ and the second hand smoke causes health risks. Smoking is a very dirty habit. First cigarettes have waste in the form of paper and filters
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com the office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted 45.3 million American smokers. (Rodu) Smoking cigarettes in public places can cause negative health effects on people. Exposure to second hand smoke could risk exposure to cancer or even heart disease . Exposure to second hand smoke for a short period of time may cause breathing difficulties‚ headaches and even nausea. Due to the possibilities of these health risk smoking should be banned in public
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Introduction Cigarettes are a common teratogen‚ an agent that causes damage to the developing organism‚ which is preventable (Berger 115). The California Environmental Protection Agency (CAL/EPA) has identified tobacco smoke and nicotine‚ a chemical in tobacco smoke‚ as substances that are harmful to unborn children (NTP). "Smoking during pregnancy may indicate that a woman is not taking a healthy approach to childbearing and‚ thus‚ may be associated with later problem behaviors for the child
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Prevention of Smoking in Adolescents A man named Bryan‚ who lived in St. Petersburg‚ Florida‚ started smoking when he was 13 years old. Throughout his high school years‚ he smoked about twenty cigarettes a day with no problem. At age 33‚ he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died six weeks later. He left behind a wife and a three year old son (Landry). Each day‚ nearly six thousand children under the age of eighteen start smoking; of these six thousand‚ two thousand will become regular smokers
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billion cigarettes each year and that more than one-half of them consider themselves dependent upon cigarettes. The decision to use tobacco is nearly always made in the teen years‚ and about one-half of young people usually continue to use tobacco products as adults. When your parents were young‚ people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we’re more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted
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most likely to begin smoking -- young teenagers -- is also one of the most susceptible to peer pressure. The awkward years between pure‚ dependent-on-parents childhood and independent young adulthood are marked for many by frustration and insecurity as status‚ family roles and physical changes happen in a hormone-addled flood. Quite often‚ this is the time of life when young people rely most heavily on friends of the same age for social support and affirmation. Enter cigarettes. If a child in a social
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recently about whether smoking should be banned. Smoking has been considered a controversial issue recently due to many negative effects bring from it. Deborah Arnott‚ in her article “Legislation to ban tobacco will save thousands of lives” (Guardian‚ September 2009) suggest that smoking should be banned in all public places and in private as well. While David Hockney ‘s article‚ entitled “ The anti – smoking bigots should butt out “ (The Guardian
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(2011) that despite the known catastrophic effects on health of smoking‚ profits from tobacco continue to soar and sales of cigarettes have increased: they have risen from 5‚000 billion sticks a year in the 1990s to 5‚900 billion a year in 2009. They now kill more people annually than alcohol‚ Aids‚ car accidents‚ illegal drugs‚ murders and suicides combined. According to the National Nutrition and Health survey that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. This fact has been recognized in the United
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Smoking Is Dangerous Smoking is imbedded in many cultures histories. It has even severed for medical purposes. When looking back at America’s culture‚ you might notice that smoking was a norm. You might even find questionnaires towards doctors of “what was their recommended choice” their answers proclaimed “Camels”‚ in the 1950s. It wasn’t long before the hazards of smoking became known to the public. In 1975‚ Minnesota proposed the Clean Indoor Air Act (MCIAA) which banned smoking;
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people are aware of how smoking affects their body? Every year thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking. There are thousands of chemicals in cigarette smoke‚ many of them are toxic. These ingredients in cigarettes affect everything from the internal functioning of organs to the deficiency of the body’s immune system. Unfortunately‚ there are harmful effects of cigarette smoking that are destructive and widespread. These harmful effects of cigarette smoke can affect smoker’s
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