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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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    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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    Prohibition vs War on Drugs

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    America©ˆs war on drugs today is very similar to America©ˆs Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920©ˆs. These two major issues of their time may not seem like they can be logically compared‚ but statistics for usage and a correlating rise in crime for both eras show a strong relationship. There is also a tendency for an outright defiance of the laws and law makers of the United States government in both cases. Most people today think that the prohibition of the 1920©ˆs and the current war on drugs

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    hardworking. Students are also used to being surrounded by people of different races and cultures‚ so equality and tolerance is a value students generally hold. Many in this demographic popularly are fans of soft drugs‚ such as marijuana. It is assumed that this demographic looks down on the drug war. Generally students are well informed as to what is going on in the news. They’d have some working knowledge of the topic. Overall‚ this demographic recognizes (myself included) that they are the future of

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    Smoke Detectors

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    Smoke Detectors A smoke detector is a device that detects smoke and prevents fire. Smoke detectors were used in many houses in North America and it is important safety devices for homes. Smoke detectors are cheap and it gives alarm of any warning when it rise a high temperature that was produced by a fire this is because smoke detectors can detect the combustion gases from a small flame. In the article‚ a woman resident of the Silverpuff apartment were seriously injure of a fire because

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    Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke is dangerous to anyone who breathes it in. There is no safe amount of it. Secondhand smoking is a problem that needs to be stopped because it affects the lives of many innocent people. What is secondhand smoke? According to the American Cancer Society‚ secondhand smoke is defined as‚ "environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Secondhand Smoke is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: Sidestream smokesmoke from the lighted end of a cigarette

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    Topics are: • education • pharmacological and neurological information • Harm reduction compared to crime and punishment The stimulant class of Drugs Neurology of Meth The brain contains neurons that ‘communicate’ with each other. This is how our body functions. In the brain of an abuser of Crystal meth the balance of dopamine and dopamine-like neurotransmitter is grossly affected. Crystal meth causes an elevation of neurotransmitters in the synapse. Crystal meth is so chemically

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    smoke ball

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    Carlile V Carbolic Smoke ball Company is considered a landmark in English Law of Contract” Analyise the above statement by explaining the facts of the case and by discussing in detail three legal principles which were upheld in the case. In the late 1800’s it was common for English Businesses selling medicinal products to make promises about the various illnesses that their products could cure. One such firm The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company‚ created the “Smoke Ball’ which claimed

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    Smoke Signals

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    Justin Whaley Dr. Dreyer ENGL1213 20 January 2013 Smoke Signals My aunt Sharon was of my favorite relatives. We were close to say the least. As the tears ran down my face‚ at her funeral‚ I started to see the signals. They were signals of the effects that long term smoking can have on ones’ body. Now‚ I know what you’re thinking‚ but she didn’t pass away from lung cancer. Long term use of smoking tobacco can have come with many health risks‚ other than lung cancer. These risks can have an acute

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    Smoke Signals ( Smoke Signals‚ DVD. 1998) is a movie that depicts Native Americans on the Coeur’d Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho during the late 20th century. Smoke Signals illustrates contemporary Native American culture. The movie is gives insight into the characters struggles to preserve oral tradition‚ and making peace with personal histories. The main characters‚ Thomas and Victor‚ deal with discrimination‚ life on a reservation‚ preservation of their culture‚ and economic problems. There

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