ingested causes various health problems including mesothelioma and lung cancer. The following will discuss what you need to know about asbestos and what to do about it if you find out it is in your home. What is Asbestos? Asbestos is a natural silicate mineral that consists of miniscule fibres. When it gets stirred up‚ it can produce dust particles that contain asbestos fibres. When these dust particles are breathed into the lungs‚ it heightens the risk of health issues from pleural plaques to mesothelioma
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cause of death in the United States. 2. It also causes reduced circulation by narrowing your blood vessels. B. Smoking also causes respiratory disease. 1. Smoking causes lung cancer. 2. Lung disease is also caused by smoking. a. It damages the airways in your lungs. C. Smoking cigarettes can cause you to get a lot of different kinds of cancer. 1. One of the cancers you could get is bladder cancer. 2. Another cancer it could give you is kidney cancer.
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can lead to you being underweight and survive only with cigarets. It can obviously cause bad breath‚ yellow teeth‚ smelly hair and clothes due to the smoke. For long term effects‚ you can have cancer of many forms‚ you would also have various lung problems‚ chronic bronchitis‚ obviously a weakened immune system‚ heart diseases‚ and strokes. Sad thing is‚ people already know these information about how bad it is for their health‚ yet‚ they still want to smoke‚ they would ignore the warnings on
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E.‚ Ware‚ J. H.‚ & Dockery‚ D. W. (1996). Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls. New England Journal of Medicine‚ 335(13)‚ 931-937. doi:10.1056/nejm199609263351304 A scholarly article named “Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls” that is published by the “New England Journal of Medicine” investigates the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung function in both boys and girls between 10 to 18 years of age. This article
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Imagine a family watching a football game‚ from sitting in the stands. It’s the Packers Vs the Bears‚ with five seconds left until halftime. Then‚ all of a sudden‚ the football fly into the air like a bird‚ then rockets downward with great force‚ right into the Packers quarter back. The quarterback catches the ball and bolts down the field like the speed of light to the other end of the field‚ dodging all of the Bears defenders‚ scoring a touchdown. The crowd goes wild with excitement! There is a
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Mesothelioma is often a rare cancer that is aggressive and usually develops in the lining of the lungs‚ heart‚ or abdomen. It is usually caused by exposure to asbestos. Currently mesothelioma has no known cure and has a low chance of recovery. The most common symptoms of mesothelioma is shortness of breath‚ chest pain‚ and pleural effusions. Also mesothelioma can breakdown the lung tissue between the bronchial tree and the pleural space. This can lead to pneumothorax‚ which is having air in the
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Nicole Hellier Professor V. Aikhionbare POS 1401 25 March 2013 Federal vs. States Recently in Florida news‚ voters are debating about the topic of legalizing medicinal marijuana. But one thing these voters should really focus on is if this is possible. As of 2012 sixteen states‚ including Alaska‚ Arizona‚ California‚ Colorado‚ Delaware‚ Hawaii‚ Maine‚ Michigan‚ Montana‚ Nevada‚ New Jersey‚ New Mexico‚ Oregon‚ Rhode Island‚ Vermont‚ and Washington‚ and the District of Columbia have legalized
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Sambrook Research International A review of the science base to support the development of health warnings for tobacco packages This report has been prepared for European Commission‚ Directorate General for Health and Consumers. The views expressed in this document are the sole responsibility of its authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Sambrook Research International 30 Station Road Newport Shropshire TF10 7EN England E-mail : info@sambrookresearch
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I. What is Sin Tax Bill ? A sin tax is a kind of sumptuary tax: a tax specifically levied on certain generally socially proscribed goods and services‚ for example alcohol‚ tobacco and gambling. Sumptuary taxes are ostensibly used for reducing transactions involving something that society considers undesirable‚ and is thus a kind of sumptuary law. Sin tax is used for taxes on activities that are considered socially undesirable. Common targets of sumptuary taxes are alcohol and tobacco‚ gambling
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small airways and tissues of your lungs. This can make your chest feel tight or cause you to wheeze or feel short of breath. Continued inflammation builds up scar tissue‚ which leads to physical changes to your lungs and airways that can make breathing hard. Years of lung irritation can give you a chronic cough with mucus. There’s no way around it. Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible
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