Smoking: A Costly Affair Now? Ref. No.: QM0009 op y Smoking: A Costly Affair Now? “An estimated 440‚000 Americans die each year from diseases caused by smoking. Smoking is responsible for an estimated one in five U.S. deaths and costs the U.S. over $150 billion each year in health care costs and lost productivity.”1 – American Lung Association No tC On April 1st 2009‚ the US government had spiked the federal cigarette-tax rate from 39¢ to $1.01 per pack. As smoking had been
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Ashraf Barrada Chemistry –EH March 16th‚ 2013 Smoking Have you ever thought about what smoking does to you and the people around you? Have you ever thought of why it isn’t legal for you to smoke it at a certain age and isn’t a tolerated action? Once there was a young boy‚ who smoked when he was young and he grew up smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. Now that guy lives on hospital machines and asthma inhalers because the cigarettes have caused him to have lung failure and cancer. It has
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Alcohol consumption is linked to many harmful consequences for the individual drinker‚ the drinker’s immediate environment and society as a whole. There are many social consequences such as traffic accidents‚ workplace-related problems‚ family and domestic problems‚ and interpersonal violence. Work People with alcohol dependence and drinking problems are on sick leave more frequently than other employees. In Great Britain‚ up to 25% of workplace accidents and around 60% of fatal accidents at
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problematic health issues in our society is smoking. Smoking is currently the leading cause of death in our country‚ due to its harmful and addicting contents‚ such as nicotine. Although millions die from it each year‚ smoking is the single most preventable cause of death. Since there is such a high number of deaths‚ enormous numbers of smoking related diseases‚ and damage to planet earth‚ smoking should be made illegal. The first reason smoking should be illegal is because it is
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infarction (heart attack)‚ cardiovascular disease‚ diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ asthma‚ emphysema‚ and cancer” (42). Smoking may lead to many unpleasant outcomes such as heart disease‚ throat cancer‚ and lung cancer. Cancer is one of the common hazards of smoking. Cancer tends to affect most of the common uses of cigarettes. According to the statistics provided by the article cigarette literacy‚ those who smoke less than 10
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Name: KEJIAN YANG Topic: Smoking Thesis Statement: If you quit smoking‚ you will live a healthy life. Type of Speech: Fact General Purpose: To inform Strategy for Presenting Content: Problem Solution Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that breaking the habit of smoking is the right way to go because smoking is harmful to the individual personally as well as being harmful to others around you. Introduction: Did you know that smoking is the most preventable cause of disease and premature
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During a pregnancy there are many choices to be made and smoking should not be one of them. Smoking while pregnant can cause major effects before the birth of the child and also in the child’s future. Here are a few effects before the actual birth of the child: 1) Cigarettes contains a large number of chemicals that harm unborn babies. 2) Smoking raises the levels of carbon monoxide in your bloodstream. This gives less oxygen for baby. 3) Nicotine tightens the blood vessels‚ meaning the oxygen is
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Effect of Smoking Done By : Jelaine Pak Chen Yee Premanan Sasu Antony Tauseef Smoking can be considered as one of the most dangerous habits in an individual. Statistics shows every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die cause by cigarettes. Besides that‚ statistics also shows that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they’re 18 years old. Most of the smokers died at middle age due to their smoking habit. They are effects on smoking such as
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associations we’ve built up over a lifetime of smoking takes conscious effort; something that smoking cessation forum member Zoe illustrates beautifully below. In her list of pros and cons‚ Zoe stands back and takes a critical look at her old smoking habit. A powerful exercise in stepping out from behind the smoke screen that nicotine addiction forces us to live behind‚ a pros and cons list allows us to uncover the truth about our relationship with smoking. From there‚ the work of healing can begin
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relevancy of smoking and how it affects today’s society. Smoking is something that is introduced to everyone at a very young age‚ whether it is a relative or complete stranger‚ children see smoking in everyday life. In thank you for smoking the main character Nick Naylor spends the majority of the movie defending cigarette smoking. Everyone realizes that cigarette smoking is not good for you and for this reason most people do not partake in the habit. So why do people start smoking people would
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