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Ashraf Barrada Chemistry –EH March 16th‚ 2013 Smoking Have you ever thought about what smoking does to you and the people around you? Have you ever thought of why it isn’t legal for you to smoke it at a certain age and isn’t a tolerated action? Once there was a young boy‚ who smoked when he was young and he grew up smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. Now that guy lives on hospital machines and asthma inhalers because the cigarettes have caused him to have lung failure and cancer. It has
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Effects of smoking Cigarettes have been around for a long time; however‚ millions of people are becoming more hooked than ever. Smoking was permitted almost everywhere‚ including airplanes. Worldwide tobacco advertising plays huge rue in the amount of people who smoke. Companies target potential new smoker’s especially young adults‚ with the usage of catchy ads on television and bill boards. Smoking cigarettes is considered one the most hazardous habits known to mankind. Smoking is a hard habit
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http://www.allsands.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
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2014 APA Effects of Smoking Cigarettes are one of the most commonly abused drugs in the United States and according to the CDC about 18% of Americans smoke cigarettes (Agaku‚ I.T.‚ King‚ B.A.‚ Dube‚ S.R.‚ 2014). For many people‚ it is easy to start this habit but very difficult to quit. There are so many campaigns against smoking and information about the negative effects is widely available. There are even many free programs available to people to aid in the process of quitting smoking cigarettes
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with smoking. Even though over 430‚000 people die as a result of smoking related disease each year‚ over 50 million continue to smoke‚ including over 3 million teens. In Ireland about 6000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases. This is 10 times more than the number killed each year in road accident.So why do people still smoke? Don ’t they realise that smoking has many negatives results? Cigarettes contain nicotine which ruins people ’s lives in 3 ways? It has negative effects upon
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There are many effects of smoking but this presentation deals with a few of them. There is no doubt about the fact that smoking is harmful. It affects every aspect of our lives; be it physical‚ fetal and mental health‚ environment‚ finances and many others too numerous to mention Every puff of cigarette contains a mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide and each time you smoke‚ it temporarily increases your 1. Heart rate and 2. Blood pressure. 3. It also injures your heart and blood vessels. Loss
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Effects of Smoking Smoking is a proven health hazard‚ and there are many clear benefits to quitting. Yet‚ many ignore these benefits and continue to smoke‚ thinking “that won’t happen to me”‚ but it can‚ or if they don’t smoke as much‚ it won’t be as harmful. So‚ I’ll talk about some of the drawbacks to smoking. According to the American Lung Association website‚ each year smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 443‚000 American lives each year‚ including those affected
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According to the American Lung Association‚ there are an estimated 50 million people who smoke. For some reason people just do not fully understand the risks they take by smoking. Cigarette smoking is a frequent cause for many health problems with smokers. To begin with‚ there are many hazardous ingredients in cigarette tobacco. Some of the ingredients are poisonous or addictive. Cigarette smoke produces thousands of chemicals that are hazardous to a smoker’s health. There are
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INTRODUCTION Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco or cannabis‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use‚ as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes‚ primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling
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