| HEALTH-PHILIPPINES Young Lives Up in Smoke By Kara Santos | MANILA‚ Feb 15‚ 2010 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking‚ Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. "The younger a child starts to smoke‚ the greater the chances of becoming a regular smoker‚" said Dr Maricar Limpin‚ executive director of the non- government group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines
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Chapter 2 Smoking has been chosen as the long term condition within this community profile. Smoking considered a major struggle‚ concern and contribution upon the public health of the country. It is recent and stands a vast problem to the NHS and is widely advertised to the community on a constant period. Cigarette Smoking is a well-recognised cause of preventable ill health‚ premature death and a major health inequality in England. Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco that
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Written by Ann Pietrangelo | Published on August 25‚ 2014 Medically Reviewed by George Krucik‚ MD‚ MBA on August 25‚ 2014 952 THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON THE BODY No matter how you smoke it‚ tobacco is dangerous to your health and affects your entire body. Image Mood Stimulation Poor Vision Anxiety and Irritability Another Cold‚ Another Flu Lung Cancer Constricted Blood Vessels High Cholesterol Heart Disease Stained Teeth Smelly Hair Diabetes Complications Erectile Dysfunction Early Menopause
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The effects of cigarette smoking on the development of thyroid eye disease in patients with Graves’ disease: A clinical review Summary points * Thyroid eye disease (TED) is thought to be caused by the stimulation of retro-orbital TSH receptors by thyrotropin receptor stimulating antibodies. * There is a strong association between cigarette smoking and the development and progression of thyroid eye disease. * Cigarette smoking has adverse effects upon treatments for Graves’ disease
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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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Biology 101 Should Cigarette Smoking Be Banned? Should there be a ban on cigarette smoking in the United States? Since cigarettes were introduced to Americans‚ questions have been raised concerning the legality of smoking and if it should be allowed everyone‚ in public places‚ or not at all. Recently‚ with the increase knowledge in cost and healthcare‚ the controversy with cigarette smoking has significantly risen. Across the country‚ states have banned smoking in public areas and inside buildings
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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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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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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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contains over 4‚000 chemicals most of which are harmful to the body. Smoking is the risk of four different types of cancer and several other illnesses. Smoking affects the lungs‚ heart‚ circulatory system‚ brain‚ and several other organs. Cigarettes and cigars can--and does--harm you physically‚ mentally and socially and even others around you. First of all the main problem with smoking is how it harms you physically. Smoking physically harms the main organs and organ systems of your body. The
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