Cigarette smoking is a risky habit. According to http://www.rochester.edu‚ it kills more than 1‚200 Americans each day. The nicotine in cigarettes causes cigarettes to become extremely addictive‚ and the addiction becomes very expensive. Cigarette smoking has side effects‚ can cause cancer and disease‚ and is harmful to others. Smoking cigarettes has side effects. One side effect is the premature wrinkling of the skin. Other side effects include: bad breath‚ stained hair‚ stained teeth‚ odorous
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SMOKING SHOULD BE BANNED If I could ban anything in the world‚ I would ban smoking. Without smoking‚ the world would be a better place with cleaner air. The environment will not be harmed. The large smoking death toll will decrease significantly and humans will be able live longer. We all know smoking is dangerous‚ even to the people around the smoker. Long exposure to Secondhand smoke kills lives. If smoking was banned‚ non-smokers wouldn’t have to suffer a smoker’s consequences‚ living
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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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Question 2: “Smoking rates among the general population have declined dramatically in the past decades”. (Cancer Council NSW) This can be largely attributed to effective health promotion. Explain how health promotion initiatives based on the Ottawa Charter have contributed to positive health outcomes in the area of tobacco use. (450 – 600 words) The Ottawa Charter is a global health promotion run by the World Health Organisation. It involves five action areas: developing personal skills
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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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Smoking during Pregnancy Arsenic‚ rocket fuel‚ toilet cleaner‚ lighter fluid‚ and batteries; what if this were the newest baby food? American’s would be in outcry and rightly so. These ingredients are all poisonous‚ yet they aren’t just found in rat poison and household cleaners‚ they are found in cigarettes. Despite this 10% of women will smoke cigarettes regularly throughout their pregnancies even though they have full knowledge of the consequences (“Program”). The children of these mother’s
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The Control and Monitoring of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy 1.1 Introduction When it comes to the topic of women and pregnancy there is much debate and controversy surrounding what a woman should and should not do with her body. A reason for this is that a woman is not only caring for herself but for another human being‚ as pregnancy entails “having a child or young developing in the uterus” (Oxford Dictionaries‚ 2016). This is why smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy
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2012 Effects of Smoking Cigarettes In this life many addictions or temptations can jump their way into the paths of many people. For example‚ some people get addicted to drugs‚ alcohol‚ and also money. Staying away from these day to day temptations is tough but is crucial to having a healthy lifestyle. Being a little more specific‚ people can get addicted to smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes contain nicotine‚ which is what people get addicted to and makes them want to have more. Smoking cigarettes can
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The Causes of Young People Smoking The Causes of Young People Smoking One of the most common problems today that are affecting young people worldwide is smoking. Smoking is such a strong addiction. One cigarette can result in smoking a bigger quantity‚ which can lead to major addiction. There are many people who like to smoke and they start at a young age. There are three main reasons why people start smoking at a young age; it might be because they try to imitate their friends‚ there are
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Should Smoking Be Banned? Smoking has become one of the leading killers in the world ever since it was produced. It results in chronic diseases and in some cases even death of the individuals. Innocent people shouldn’t die because of it. According to various health reports published in medical journals‚ it has been clearly stated that a huge section of the society is under threat of facing premature deaths or grave diseases. There has been much research into smoking‚ why it should be
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