Today about four hundred thousands Americans die annually because of the health problem due to smoking. One and a half million people quit smoking a year‚ but more than fifty millions people keep on going. Tobacco contains nicotine‚ a drug that is addictive. Once you start smoking‚ it is very hard‚ but not impossible to quit. Smoking has several harmful effects on the body. People who smoke for a significant period of time will have problems with breathing and will most likely be in poor health
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Kelvin Omogbeme CIGARETTE SMOKING SHOULD BE BANNED IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHER ILLEGAL DRUGS Tobacco is one of the most widely used drugs in the world‚ mainly in the form of a cigarette. Although most countries have tried to restrict the use of tobacco‚ people still smoke everyday despite the fact that it is poisonous and harmful to their health. Cigarette smoking has been part of our lives for many decades now. Whether cigarettes should be banned or not becomes an object of controversy for many countries
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Smoking is an expensive habit. People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2‚500 a year on them. Smokers’ claim that it helps relax them and it releases stress but the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. Smoking is a health hazard for smokers and non-smokers. Smokers should have the right to choose what to do with their own health but they should respect non-smokers. Many people believe that there are good and bad outcomes from smoking. I believe that smoking is bad and that
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“Smoking Cigarettes isn’t the Solution” I. INTRODUCTION: A. Attention: What happens when you let smoking tobacco become an addiction? How can it affect you and relatives around you? Why should you quit smoking? B. Purpose: Today I will discuss with you the impacts smoking tobacco products can have on you and how what your habit can’t affect your family members. C. Central Idea: People should quit smoking and using tobacco. D. Preview of Main Points: 1. Main Point: Need: How
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inequalities in adolescent smoking behaviour and neighbourhood access to tobacco products. A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geography at University of Canterbury by Christopher John Bowie 2011 1 Abstract Youth smoking is an important aspect of tobacco research as most adult smokers first experiment with and initiate tobacco use during their adolescence. Policy makers and researchers have given youth smoking issues a significant
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Smoking has always been a topic on everyone’s lips‚ is it the new age killer or is it just coincidental that most cancer and heart disease victims are smokers? The articles that this essay is based on refer to issues such as "surgery being banned on so called ’fat’ people and alcoholics" and "transplants useless as they don’t listen to doctors anyway" It seems that doctors and surgeons don’t want to or won’t operate on patients who haven’t helped themselves to begin with. They say that the non-smoker
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Exploring the Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Adults in the United States Cindy Tworek‚ MPH‚ MS Gary Giovino‚ PhD‚ MS Jun Yang‚ MD‚ PhD Melanie Wakefield‚ PhD K. Michael Cummings‚ PhD‚ MPH Frank Chaloupka‚ PhD April 2003 Research Paper Series‚ No. 26 ImpacTeen is part of the Bridging the Gap Initiative: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior‚ supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the University of Illinois
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The Harmful Effects Of Smoking a Cigarette The harmful effects of smoking are: Lung Cancer Smoking accounts for about 80-90% of all chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ emphysema‚ chronic mucus secretion‚ and chronic air flow blocks. Smoking is involved in 85% of all lung cancer deaths. An individual with chronic bronchitis‚ which is caused by smoking‚ is more likely to get a bacterial infection if he or she is a smoker. A smoker gets more nose and throat inflammations‚ respiratory
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Juvenile Smoking leading to use Marijuana (Research Methods for Criminal Justice) Name: Institution: Abstract Research has found that teenagers who used cigarettes were twelve times more likely to graduate to marijuana use. A similar study conducted by Denise Kandel (1992) revealed that use of marijuana affects dopamine levels in the brain in a similar way to nicotine. Cigarette smoking facilitates consumption of other substances. Smoking cigarettes
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Why Smoking is Good for You Smoking is good for in many ways including making you live longer. Although most text books and "experts" say that smoking is bad for you‚ there are also many other people who disagree and say it has many curing properties. For example‚ a person with bronchitis from childhood accompanied by marked wheezing was told by doctors not to smoke. He was then told by an old country doctor that he used to be like him until he took up the pipe. Then he tried smoking and it reduced
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