The Silent Killer Amador Medina Do you want to live longer? Smoking is responsible for a large number of deaths every year across the world. Cigarette smoking has been identified as the number one preventable death in the world. Smoking kills slowly. One cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals‚ 51 of which are carcinogenic‚ meaning the chemicals cause cancer. Smoking has many negative effects; it becomes addictive‚ it harms the body‚ and causes personal problems. Cigarettes contain many toxic chemicals
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1964‚ in Surgeon General’s statement‚ smoking’s harmful effects was understood. Smoking causes serious health and economical issues with it’s effects such as causing huge financial losses in country budgets‚ leading to many kinds of health problems and affecting either smokers and non-smokers. First of all‚ causing health problems is the most dangerous effect of smoking when be thought surfacely. Smoking causes many health problems but the most important and fatal one is lung-cancer
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Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim more than 480‚000 American lives each year. Smoking cost the U.S. at least $289 billion each year‚ including at least $150 billion in lost productivity and $130 billion in direct healthcare expenditures. Cigarette smoke contains more than 7‚000 chemicals‚ at least 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Smoking can lead to nicotine addiction. It changes your brain and it develops extra
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steadily increasing and it is expected to rise to about 1.64 billion by the year 2025. The W.H.O. estimated some four million deaths each year that are caused by tobacco use. It is expected that if smoking were not reduced‚ then there would be about ten million people dead per year by 2030. If the current smoking trends continue‚ tobacco is expected to become the leading cause of death worldwide‚ causing more deaths than HIV‚ maternal mortality‚ automobile accidents‚ homicide and suicide combined. But
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KENT RIDGE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE SECONDARY THREE NORMAL (ACADEMIC) HEAD START PROGRAMME DISCURSIVE WRITING 1. What are some reasons teenagers take up smoking and how can one successfully kick the habit? FORMAT Question: What are some reasons teenagers take up smoking and how can one successfully kick the habit? Planning Paragraph 1: Introduction give statistics discuss reasons teens smoke: to fit in‚ to cope with stress discuss how one can kick the habit: reducing the number
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In my opinion‚ smoking is not only arrogant‚ but it’s impolite and ill-mannered to think that people who smoke are killing themselves when most of them have loving families. There is always one selfish person who wants to throw their money (and life) away because of tobacco or cigarettes and don’t care about their children. Not only does smoking give children a negative influence‚ but it can also put them at the risk of health problems such as asthma. It has become the latest thing in the world today
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Mediterranean school of business | Argumentative Essay | | | Seifeddine Souid | 06/05/2013 | What extra class should MSB offer outside of the business domain? | The Mediterranean School of Business offer a License program which represents a unique opportunity for ambitious graduates wanting to acquire‚ in a multi-cultural environment‚ managerial skills and leadership opening their professional horizons internationally. The curriculum that MSB made‚ has a diversified and coherent
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For and against essays A "for and against" essay is a formal piece of writing in which a topic is considered from opposing points of view. You should present both sides in a fair way by discussing them objectively and in equal detail. A good essay of this type should consist of: a) an introductory paragraph in which you clearly state the topic to be discussed‚ without giving your opinion; b) a main body in which the points for and against along with your justifications‚ examples or reasons are presented
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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed‚ you’ve lost a very important part of your life”. –Brooke Shields. Many people are already aware of the fact that smoking harms their body. Why do people continue to smoke then? Sometimes people have an addiction‚ or are not aware of the things that it can do to their body. Other times‚ they do not believe what people say about smoking‚ or do not think that these effects will happen to them. There are a lot of reasons why someone should not smoke. Some of them are
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Smoking has always been a topic on everyone’s lips‚ is it the new age killer or is it just coincidental that most cancer and heart disease victims are smokers? The articles that this essay is based on refer to issues such as "surgery being banned on so called ’fat’ people and alcoholics" and "transplants useless as they don’t listen to doctors anyway" It seems that doctors and surgeons don’t want to or won’t operate on patients who haven’t helped themselves to begin with. They say that the non-smoker
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