Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration forrecreational drug use‚ as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotineand makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part of rituals‚ to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment. Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Tobacco smoking is today
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Topic: Teenage Smoking Title: There are many teenage smokers in the Philippines and there are several causes and effects to this issue. Introduction I. Peer Pressure‚ Curiosity‚ Habit and Depression are the causes of teenagers that has been smoking cigarette. Based on my experience‚ Peer Pressure is one of the influencial factors to teenage smokers. It occurs when a non-smoker joins a group of teenage smokers. When teenagers have been influenced most likely he or she will start smoking. The behavoir
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These people like to smoke whenever or wherever they feel the urge for a cigarette. However‚ the smoke from cigarettes disturbs non smokers. Because of that ‚ many nonsmokers would like smoking to be banned from public places. Antismokers provide several reasons for the importance for such a ban. Smoking has been shown to be harmful to health. The main effect is that it causes lung cancer. Research now shows that even people who don’t smoke themselves are in danger of developing cancer when
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Quitting Smoking According to the American Cancer Society‚ an estimated 221‚330 new cases of lung cancer are expected in 2011. “Lung Cancer accounts for more deaths than any other cancer in both men and women than any other cancer.” The most important thing you can do to reduce your risk of getting lung cancer is to quit smoking. Quitting smoking is very difficult. To be more successful in quitting smoking‚ you should first understand the addiction to nicotine‚ options to help you quit and
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Persuasive Speech Outline General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to stop anybody they know from smoking to prevent damage to their health. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. I. Attention step: You may wonder what our future generation may look like because of the effects of smoking. According to a study of teen smokers‚ young men who smoke may be both compromising their fertility and increasing their risk of fathering a child with genetic abnormalities
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center for disease control and prevention‚ Secondhand smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles that includes smoke from a burning tobacco product such as a cigarette‚ cigar‚ smoke that has been exhaled or breathed out by the person or people smoking. The parent I shared the pamphlet with is a 25year old African American mother of a 5year old male child. She has a high school diploma‚ single mother and works as a clerical associate in a private institution. The objective of the pamphlet was
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tobacco smoking the most harmful of bad habits‚ since it adversely affects not only the person addicted to cigarette or cigar smoking‚ but also those around the smoker‚ who involuntarily inhale the smoke. Statistical reports on the impact of smoking on Americans show that 269‚655 deaths annually among men and 173‚940 deaths annually among women are tobacco related. Some people might argue that the odds of AIDS‚ car accidents and homicides taking one’s life‚ are greater than smoking a couple
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Dangers of Smoking Cigarettes When you are aware of the dangers of smoking cigarettes‚ you can persuade yourself and others to quit the habit. Read this article to understand the harmful effects of smoking on your health. The habit of smoking cigarettes is addictive in nature. For this reason‚ even though smoking causes death for millions of people all across the world‚ most smokers are unable to stop smoking. Addiction towards cigarettes develop mainly because of presence of nicotine in tobacco
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Smoking Is a Bad Habit Project 2012 Introduction People smoke mostly in the form of cigarette. Some people use even cigar‚ pipes etc. All these contain dried leaves of tobacco plant. A cigarette or any such thing is made for the purpose of inhaling smoke. It contains a harmful substance ’nicotine’. Tobacco is an agricultural product‚ grown in the farms. Farmers get good income by growing the tobacco as an agricultural plant. Tobacco is also used in preparation of some medicines. But when tobacco
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Jessica Zender American Government Smoking in Public Places Smoking has been around in our history for longer than we can imagine. It used to be a status symbol and a power stick. A cigarette in ones hand was a gesture of intimidation to others. Movies have always shown the protagonist smoking away while they deal with something important. Even in real life‚ ask a smoker‚ they would say that smoking helps them clear the clutter in their mind and calms them down. However‚ a non-smoker would easily
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