Teenage Smoking in United Kingdom Background: Young people’s tobacco use continues to be a widely recognised public health challenge in UK. In November 2010‚ the government introduced the White Paper Healthy lives‚ Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England which set the government’s long-term ambitions for improving public health in England. The White Paper recognised the harmful effects smoking has on public health and made a commitment to publish a tobacco control strategy with
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Should smoking be banned altogether？ Smoking among adolescents rose in the 1990s in several developed countries. More and more young people are under 18 years old who smoke cigarette have been blinded by the deceit of tobacconists. Tobacco among adolescents remains stubbornly persistent. Tobacco become a global threat. In recent years‚ more and more people have come to realize that smoking is doing irreparable harm to the whole world. It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking
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Smoking brings with it much harm‚ regardless whether it is with respect to health‚ finance‚ environmental or social issues. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) estimates that tobacco kills one person every 10 seconds (WHO‚ 2005). Smoking causes cancer‚ and is a major risk for illnesses such as coronary heart disease‚ stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. These account for close to two-thirds of all deaths in Singapore in the year 2000 (Health Promotion Board (“HPB”)‚ n.d.). Tobacco is the
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Speizer‚ F. 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
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It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. However‚ although I feel that smoking can be harmful‚ I do not think it should be banned completely. Let’s deal first with the positive side of smoking. First‚ smoking undoubtedly helps many people to relax. For some‚ it even improves concentration. Many people like to smoke before exams or when they are relaxing with friends. A further point is that governments throughout the world make huge profits from levying taxes on cigarettes
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Hello my name is ---------and here to persuade you to stop smoking. Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people around you. Breathing other people’s smoke is called passive‚ involuntary or secondhand smoking. The non-smoker breathes "side stream" smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and "mainstream" smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker. Secondhand smoke is a major source of indoor air pollution. How does this affect the passive
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Banning Smoking in Public Places Post University Millions of nonsmokers all across the globe are in danger of serious health risks because of smoking‚ banning smoking in public places is the only rational way to avoid such risk. Smoking is the number one leading cause of preventable death. This killer is responsible for painfully taking the life of just under a half million people a year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov; 2014) People that choose not to smoke have
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clothes? Or inhaled a cloud of smoke as a group of smokers passed‚ causing you to cough and choke? Neither experience is pleasant‚ and this is why smoking should be banned in public areas. Smoking can be dangerous not only for the smoker‚ but also for those around the smoker. Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death (after active smoking and alcohol)‚ according to the Manitoba Medical Association. They also say that the smoke contains over 4‚000 chemicals‚ 50 of which are known
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Worldwide‚ Smoking became the leading cause of death. It’s one of the harmful behaviors that people got used to in the 21st century. The phenomenon of smoking cigarettes and shisha started to spread across the world. The strange thing is that many people know the ability of smoking to destroy their health and “The scientist have proved that the number of people that die due to smoking every year‚ exceeded the numbers of who died because of diseases in the past” (netdoctor‚2014). Recently‚ Smoking became
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Negative Effects of Smoking Cigarettes Each year cigarettes are responsible for about 443‚000 deaths‚ on average this is smokers dying 13 to 14 years sooner than nonsmokers1. Cigarette smoking is a horrible behavior in our daily lives. Smoking is not just horrible‚ but it also has many serious effects on your health‚ which are often deadly. There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes‚ hundreds to which are toxic to your body2. Smoking is a terrible and disgusting habit‚ because second hand smoke
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