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    Why Not to Smoke

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    ruin your life. It has to be one of the least healthiest things you can do. Smoking causes many different types of cancer and disease‚ such as lung cancer and heart disease‚ both can be fatal. To inspire cigarette smoke‚ even if inhaled by second-hand smoke (inhaling cigarette smoke from another person’s cigarette) can deteriorate your lungs. Smoking also causes loss of brain cells‚ which can be cause to serious injury later. Smoking also makes you look repulsive‚ almost unbearable to look at

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    War On Drugs Research Paper

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    25 April 2015    War on Drugs  From drug wars‚ to drug cartels‚ and government control‚ the war on drugs has been a  critical issue throughout the United States. From the early years of the 1970’s to the 1980’s‚ there  has been a major uprise of the use of drugs and narcotics. However‚ throughout the development  of law making and restrictions‚ there have been numerous amounts of policies that have been  placed upon this controversial issue by the government.   From the beginning of time‚ the war on drugs has sparked an uprise of controversial 

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    Afghanistan and war on drugs

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    relevance of both structure and agency is proposed. In certain circumstances‚ human agency opens up the possibility of the relatively rapid transformation of structures. In particular‚ there are periods of political openness when structures are malleable‚ and individuals‚ or individuals acting collectively‚ are able to reshape structures. Decolonisation both constituted a moment of transition and opened up the possibility of structural change in the context of enhanced elite agency. For the purposes

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    Smoke Signals

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    Smoke Signals For most of my life‚ the word “Native American” had immediately made me think of feathers‚ powwows‚ and a society uncorrupted by civilization. However‚ in watching the movie Smoke Signals‚ a movie that depicts the modern Native American culture‚ I learned many other things. For one‚ I learned that many of the customs that modern Native Americans have are very similar to my others. I also saw that the family life of the Native Americans in the film had many of the same problems

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    health-threats‚ like lung disease‚ cancer and stroke. Every year more than 300.000 kids under the age of 18 start smoking. Also some researches talk about alcohol and smoking are combined‚ they gratly reduce the sperm count of a young male‚ the more they smoke and drink the lower count‚ combined with marijuana and many hits to testicles‚ there is a very small chance of getting a girl pregnant‚ especially combined with the pullout method. Reseach shows that only 17% of kids under 18 years old indulge in tobacco

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    Illegal drugs have become such a large problem for the world in the past decade. Those in economic depression use drugs to not only “soothe” them‚ but to make the money as well. And of those countries‚ there is Mexico. Mexico’s Drug War has been going on since 2006‚ and it has had lots of tolls on both its people and its government effectiveness. The USA has been a major part of trying to help Mexico through its issues‚ since the very beginning of this drug war. Without the US’s assistance‚ Mexico

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    GMO WHITE PAPER March 2012 What Goes Up Must Come Down! James Montier A Little Detour into My Murky Past Nearly a quarter of a century ago‚ I was a young‚ naïve‚ and foolish believer in an economic concept known as rational expectations – an elegant‚ mathematically beautiful theory with no practical use. In Star Wars parlance‚ I had effectively been seduced by the dark side. Thankfully‚ several of my university lecturers were determined to save me from this terrible fate. They insisted on teaching

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    Dont Smoke

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    Imagine if three of your closest friends were trying to make you smoke your first cigarette. You think - its just one‚ what’s the harm? As your friend hands you the package you notice a warning label. It’s a picture of a dead man with stitches down his chest. You stop and think - I don’t want to end up like that! Today‚ nearly 3‚500 children across America will try their first cigarette and 850 of them will end up daily smokers. We need to do a better job of warning these kids about the dangers

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    Smoke Detector

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    1 Smoke Detector ∗ Sardar Nimisha Sankhe∗ ‚ Nisarg Vinod† and Ekta Vira Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ nimisha.sankhe@yahoo.com † Sardar Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ naughty.nisarg@yahoo.co.in ‡ Sardar Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ ekta vira@ymail.com Abstract Most of the smoke alarms available in the market use one or another kind of smoke sensor which increases the cost and also require complicated interfacing circuitry

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    War on Drugs Has Failed

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    billion over the course of the American drug prohibition effort‚ it might be prudent to ask the question‚ "Are we making any progress?" ("Ron"). Amazingly‚ the answer from experts on both sides of the issue is a resounding "no." It is clear at this point that the War on Drugs has ultimately failed‚ while the collateral consequences of pursuing drug prohibition have left America in a disastrous state‚ rife with both economic and social problems. While American drug prohibition was in motion via legislation

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