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    Dangers of Smoking

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    infarction (heart attack)‚ cardiovascular disease‚ diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ asthma‚ emphysema‚ and cancer” (42). Smoking may lead to many unpleasant outcomes such as heart disease‚ throat cancer‚ and lung cancer. Cancer is one of the common hazards of smoking. Cancer tends to affect most of the common uses of cigarettes. According to the statistics provided by the article cigarette literacy‚ those who smoke less than 10

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    Reasons for Not Smoking

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    cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes are bad for you so‚ smoke cigars. My name is ---------- and I am here to tell you why you should not smoke cigarettes. First of all I would like to tell you how unattractive it is to see a male or female smoking ESPECIALLY when they’re only 14-years-old. It is proven an addiction that is extremely hard to over come. If you think that when you smoke it only affects you‚ think again. When someone breathes in your smoke that you blow out it’s called secondhand smoking or passive

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    Louis Renteria 9/18/13 Sociology Mrs.Ramierz The norm that I will be violating is eating soup with a fork at olive garden with my family. My family was planning on going to dinner so I thought a good norm to break is to eat my soup with a fork. I didn’t tell my parents about me doing this. I thought this was a good norm to break because it’s not something you typically see. As soon as my soup was going to be served I was going to grab the fork and try to eat my soup but make it seem

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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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    Is Smoking Suicide?

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    Is Smoking Suicide? Tobacco use is directly related to lung cancer in ninety percent of males and eighty percent of women. Also tobacco use is directly linked to twenty percent of heart disease. What this says to me is that using tobacco is essentially suicide. So‚ yes tobacco use is suicide and tobacco leads to an estimated five million deaths every year. Mean while seventy percent of those five million deaths are in under developed countries. I believe the reason three and a half million people

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    Some of us get mixed up and do not make the right decision for ourselves. Smoking and other tobacco products are being used every second of every day. More young adults are consuming tobacco products now than before‚ due to big tobacco companies and society portraying them as harmless and the cool thing to do. Parenting can be difficult‚ but sometimes parents do not stress the important topics of health. We know that smoking is not good‚ but it seems that we need somebody to tell us. Just because

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    Children and Smoking

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    is someone smoking a cigarette. Someone that is lowering their chances to live‚ taking a risk of cancer‚ and sometimes even lessening the time spent with their children‚ because smoking does kill. Nobody wants to get that news saying “you have throat cancer” or even worse “you have lung cancer”‚ regardless it will kill you in the end. So why are people so worried about telling other people not to try it and hiding it from their kids‚ when they should be ones fixing themselves? Smoking is one of the

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    sociology

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    Socialization Let’s defined the Concept Socialization Socialization is the lifelong process through which individuals acquire their Self identity‚ and learn the Physical‚ Mental;‚ and Social skills Needed in order to survive in society. In other words‚ it is a process that teaches the Norms‚ Values‚ and Other aspects of a culture to new group members. Socialization enables individuals to Learn Norms‚ Values‚ Language‚ Skills & Beliefs of their particular society

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    authorities to engage in criminal behavior in certain situations. Psychopaths: Specific personality types; such individuals lack the moral sense and concern for others held by most normal people. Anomie: A concept first brought into wide usage in sociology by Durkheim‚ referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior. Differential Association: An interpretation of the development of criminal behavior proposed by Edwin H. Sutherland‚ according to whom criminal

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    Effects of Smoking

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    com/health/smokingeffects_srw_gn.htm Smoking’s Effects on the Lungs Smoking’s effects on the lungs‚ such as the development of emphysema and lung cancer‚ are mainly caused by tar and nicotine. Learn how smoking cigarettes causes immediate changes to occur in the lungs. One of the hardest habits to break is smoking cigarettes. Everyone knows it damages the lungs‚ causing emphysema and cancer. But do people know HOW these illnesses occur on a physiological level? Perhaps if the mechanism were explained there

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