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  • Second Hand Smoke On Non Smokers
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    Smoking or Non-Smoking Should There Be A Choice Imagine sitting in a restaurant unable to enjoy a meal due to the cloud of smoke coming from a neighbor's table. The fact that there was not a designated area for smokers has put the smoker and the non-smoker in an uncomfortable situation. Smoking should be banned in public places because non-smokers have a right to clean air, and because second hand smoke is more dangerous than actually smoking a cigarette. However, smoking should not be banned in...
  • Passive Cigarette Smoke
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    SHOULD SMOKING BE BANNED IN PUBLIC PLACE Should tobacco smoking be banned in public places As we know that cigarette smoke is potentially hazardous to all those who inhale it, whether voluntarily or passively. The death rate of smoke-related diseases, the toxic components in tobaccos, and the diseases that are related to cigarettes are all obvious evidences to support the fact that cigarettes are harmful. Individuals are entitled to the right to public smoking; however, this right should only be...
  • House With Second Hand Smoke
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    Should Smoking be banned Completely In my opinion, I believe that smoking should be completely banned. Not only is smoking any form of tobacco dangerous to you health, but it is also bad for the health of those around you. Do most people in the United States smoke Actually no, the majority of the people in the U.S. do not smoke. Only about 25% or 1 out of 4 adults smoke and only 20% or 1 out of 5 teen's do. 1 Most people (teens) start around the age of twelve to fourteen. 1 The time of death for...
  • Environmental Tobacco Smoke
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    Did you know that most people are at the risk of dying from just breathing the air around them Every day at least ninety-five percent of American people suffer from (E.T.S.) Environmental Tobacco Smoke, or more commonly known as second hand smoke. For those that are not familiar with what second hand smoke is let me explain it to you. Second hand smoke is a mixture of the smoke exhaled by smokers and the smoke that comes from the burning ends of cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. This smoke contains...
  • Year From Second Hand Smoke
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    Smoking and its effects on the body I am doing my drug project on smoking. In some countries, smoking causes one-third of all cancer deaths. It causes diseases of the heart, lung, digestive tract, kidney, bladder. There are many other health risks. There are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke and 200 of those are known poisons. Pregnant women who smoke may have miscarriages, low birth weight, still birth, and premature birth. There are a few reasons why people smoke. Most teenagers smoke be...
  • Second Hand Smoke
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    Hazards of Smoking Smoking refers to the practice of inhaling smoke from the burning tobacco in a pipe, cigar, or most commonly, a cigarette. Smokers feel relaxation because tobacco contains nicotine that is very addictive to a person who smokes. Smoking causes numerous hazards, which include: cancers, second hand smoke problems, and problems in pregnancy. Cancers of the lung, breast, prostate and colon and rectum have become more frequent in countries with risk factors such as cigarette smoking...
  • Second Hand Smoke
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    Please Take Your Butt Outside "A smoking section in a bar or a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a public swimming pool, the pee just like the smoke will spread, and there is no way of escaping it", said an anonymous author. Smoking affects many people's lives each and everyday. For example, I can not even count the times that I have been in a restaurant in a "non-smoking section" and still not been able to enjoy my meal because of the smokers on the other side of the restaurant. Smo...
  • Cancer Excerpt From Why Second Hand Smoke
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    Olivia RovegnoThesis Statement: Second hand smoke is a cause of cancer. Data: Newspapers 1. 'When these new data for cervical cancer are considered in light of similar results from previously published studies, our findings suggest that passive smoking may be firmly linked with cervical cancer,' wrote lead author Anthony J. Albert. 'Our study of two large cohorts found that women who lived with smokers had a percent or greater risk of developing cervical. ' excerpt from Second hand smoke, cervic...
  • Smoking Risks
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    Smoking, AKA Deaths' Candy Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Smoking cigarettes can do very fatal damages human health (Bender 17). There are over fifty ways of making life miserable through smoking due to illnesses, and more than twenty ways of killing a person ("Action on Smoking and Health" 1). The probability that someone who smokes will develop a major complication in their health is one hundred percent; no matter what, it will happen (Bender 33). Smoki...
  • Only Smoking Related Cancer
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    The governments must ban the sales of tobacco products. There are many consequences to smoking like health, addiction, cessation and economic costs. Second hand smoke is a major problem, since smoking is allowed in a lot of public places. Second hand smoke has fifty cancer causing which are inhaled by non-smokers. Second hand tobacco smoke is also called Environment Tobacco Smoke (ETS). ETS is made up of smoke that comes from the end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar called side stream smoke. People...
  • Harmful Effects Of Second Hand Smoke
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    According to Global Smoking Statistics, 80,000 and 100,000 youths start smoking everyday. Smoking is everywhere, in shops, restaurants and malls. Smoking can be controlled if the right steps are taken. If you walked around downtown Fort Collins, the odds are good that you will encounter a smoker. The negative effects of smoking outweigh the positive effects of smoking yet people still do it. There are ways to quit that can make your life better if you smoke. Smoking goes back to 1492 when Christ...
  • Exposure Of Children To Second Hand Smoke
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    Did you know that 3,000 American non-smokers will die this year from lung cancer? Those deaths are entirely preventable. Their lung cancer is caused by second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is smoke they have breathed in from other people's cigarettes. It is also known as involuntary or passive smoking. There is nothing passive however about the effects of this smoke. It is lethal and it is dangerous. It may give as many as 300,000 children under the age of one and half bronchitis and pneumonia. ...
  • Dangers Of Second Hand Smoke
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    Journal Abstract People effect others without even knowing it when they choose to smoke. When someone lights up a cigarette and others inhale secondary smoke, you directly effect their health. Most smokers deny the fact that they are damaging others, or often don't even realize what they are doing. As a smoker I often feel that if someone doesn't enjoy what I am doing they can go somewhere else. This is a bad attitude to have and after reading this article it has helped me realize more of what s...
  • Second Hand Smoke
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    Smoking is the most important single preventable cause of illness and premature death in North America. In the United States alone, more than 500,000 deaths are attributed to tobacco use each year. This exceeds the total number of American lives lost in all of the wars fought since the country was founded. In 1962 the Royal College of Physicians of London had released a significant study, which concluded: "Cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and bronchitis and various other diseases". Ci...
  • Exposure To Second Hand Smoke
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    There are several ways an individual can quit smoking. How successful any one method will be depends on persons personality, how heavily addicted to cigarettes you are, and whether your family, social, school, and work environments will help or hinder your efforts to quit. About 85 to 95% of smokers who quit do it on their own. Studies of successful ex smokers have shown that support from others and regular exercise is two factors that improve the chances of success. There are different types of...
  • Effects Of Second Hand Smoke
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    As I sat across from my boss at work the other day, a flourish of hot air and smoke struck my face. The toxic smoke came from his stained mouth. The fumes from the cigarette he was smoking gagged me, forcing me to cough up the disgusting gas. Yet, I said nothing to him and acted as if it didn't bother me. I then realized how this happens far too often. Americans must not condone smoking by not saying anything, but take responsibility for their health and the health of others. People must convinc...
  • Second Hand Smoke Since Developing Tissues
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    Smoking It is a universally accepted fact that smoking cigarettes or tobacco is detrimental to your health. There is an endless list of health problems that are directly caused or affected by smoking, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and emphysema. Short-term effects of smoking include a significant increase in heart rate and a drop in skin temperature. Respiration rate is also increased. In novice smokers, diarrhea and vomiting may occur. Although the central nervous system is, in ...
  • Non Smokers From Passive Smoke
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    Cigarette Smoking For a long time now many people have different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. On the other hand non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and endanger there life. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other serious illnesses. Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. A substantial number of lung cancers that occur in non-smokers can be attributed to involuntary smoking. There ar...
  • Tobacco Smoke At Work
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    TFI releases Tobacco & Development, an annotated bibliography & agenda for future research. Profits Over People, a new report released today by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) shows that transnational tobacco companies have engaged in active comprehensive campaigns of deception over the last decade in Latin America and the Caribbean regarding the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and the nature of tobacco company marketing activities. These campaigns were designed to delay or avoi...
  • Their Second Hand Smoke
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    Breathe Easy Stay Healthy People see it everyday, in the newspapers, the movies, on the news, and even in person. People smoking and others inhaling their second-hand smoke. The laws are buckling down on this, but there is still a lot to be done. Smoking is not only bad for a person, but second-hand smoke is turning out to be even worse. Second-hand smoke is worse because it contains more of the dangerous substances found in cigarettes and more of the raw tobacco smoke, it is impossible to avoid...

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