...Who is the most vulnerable to the cigarette marketing ads? Kids and teens are by far the most vulnerable. Especially vulnerable are those children who have low self-esteem, low academic achievement, no goals and low social status. Kids with these problems are more likely to be prone to give in to the pressures of siblings, peers and the media. To try to discourage teens from beginning the habit, most states have raised the taxes on cigarettes. Some, such as the District of Columbia have raised it to a high of 25 cents per pack.5 On the other hand, the states where smoking is a major cash crop such as Kentucky and Tennessee, only have a tax of 2.5 cents per pack, so they don t discourage kids from buying.6 Cigarettes contain over seven hundred (700) chemical additives. Some of the chemicals you are less likely to know about are the heavy metals, humectants, casting agents, pesticides and insecticides added into a cigarette. The more well know chemicals are tar, Carbon and nicotine. Tar is released when you light a cigarette and the tobacco begins to burn. The cigarette reaches about 1600-1800 degrees Fahrenheit on the ash ends and can reach up to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit in the center.7 Tar is very harmful to the human respiratory system because it collects and clogs up the bronchi and it contributes a great deal to cancer and respiratory diseases. The Carbon in a cigarette is extremely dangerous. Government regulations only permit the level of Carbon to be at the maximum 50ppm...
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...Cigarettes Are Bad In today’s world you see cigarettes almost everywhere. There are cigarette breaks at work, and people saying “Man I really need a cigarette after that.” This is great for the big tobacco companies, but not for the cigarette smokers themselves. More people become smokers every day, which means more and more people die each year from smoking cigarettes. Smoking can cause multiple different cancers. Smoking also increases heart rate and blood pressure, and strains the heart, which can cause a heart attack or stroke. Tar build up can also occur and it rips through your lungs like soot in a chimney, and can cause lung cancer. Smoking can also cause many diseases including emphysema, bronchitis, etc. Some people today are trying to find ways to stop smoking. Some ways include patches, gum, and medicines. Sure, scientists have made an impact on spreading the cons of smoking, but each day someone continues to light up, and each day someone new dies from long term smoking. Sarah A. Belstock, at Norris Health Center in the Health Promotion Services Department, and other authors, have spoken about advertising that influences health-related behaviors of college-aged individuals. Cigarette industries market to the youngest people that are able to buy cigarettes, college students. Most people are aware of the parties and alcohol consumption in college, so the big tobacco companies have started using alcohol in their advertisements to relate to the college students (Belstock...
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...and are the smoking good in our health? All of us know that smoking is not good in our health because it can cause so many diseases such as According to Harry Mills PH.D.(2005) that many people nowadays smoke cigarette even teenagers smoke. Some other people have no idea about the chemical of a tobacco and what it can cause in our body. Because the effects of cigarette like lung cancer, heart disease and mouth cancer. But if you really love your body you will quit or you will lessen smoking because he/she you know the bad effects of cigarette smoking. Considered that cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for many cancers and respiratory diseases. Because the heavier the usage of an individual and the longer he smokes, the higher the...
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...Did you know that smoking cigarettes is one of the leading cause of death in the United States? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018, pg. 1) Today, we are aware of the cause of cigarette smoking to our health and to the environment. Smoking cigarettes should be banned and restricted in public areas due to cigarettes causing air pollution, contaminates water, and carries carbon monoxide into the environment and health. In addition, by disallowing people who smoke in public areas, will influence them to smoke less. One reason why I am against people smoking in public areas is because cigarettes creates air, water, and land pollution. The one thing that actually creates air pollution is the cigarette butts. These cigarette butts are...
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...file room, where Alice and Frank smoke, that smells of cigarette smoke. In this case, Charles Renford, office supervisor for Redwood Associates, assigned a task to one of his employees, Darlene Lambert, to help him with a report that was due right away. When the office supervisor asked his employee to go into the file room to start assembling the data needed for the report, Darlene refused the task claiming that the file room smelled like smoke and it was too bad for her to be in there. Darlene has worked in the file room before, and she has never went to her supervisor and complained about the smoke smell. This case shows that Alice and Frank are considerate as they were always considerate of Darlene, as well as nonsmokers, by opening the windows to air the room out ahead of time if they knew that Darlene was going to be working in there. Companies have implemented a non-smoking policy in places of employment, and according to this case smokers have rights, and the office supervisor reminds Darlene that their state law does not ban smoking in the workplace. Due to Darlene not going into the filing room, the office supervisor is concerned with the report that is currently due. With this case, Charles Renford could have handled the situation better than what he did, and Charles Renford should implement a policy on smoking. This case may or may not change if what Darlene is complaining about is Alice’s perfume or Frank’s body odor. In addition, a company banning smoking in their...
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...Anthony Bodnar Bio/ 211 Amylase/Osmolarity The reading I chose was the “Inhibition of salivary amylase activity by cigarette smoke aldehydes”. The first thing I read is this article is done by Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in Haifa, Israel. This for me is always a good sign because it seems to be credible right off the jump. We begin by stating one of the most obvious or at least it should be the obvious that cigarette smoke is a leading cause of cancer and cardiovascular disease worldwide. This should be known no matter who you are. The effect of cigarette smoke has many damaging effects on the body that are irreversible. Some toxicity in CS are linked with alpha and beta unsaturated aldehydes and saturated aldehydes. The aldehydes have interactions with thiol compounds ( organosulfur compound) that contain a sulfur-hydrogen bond. When these reactions happen there is an alteration in function that is not good. With studies showing significant decrease in the ability for are amylase enzyme to function properly this can be detrimental for any positive function we need to digest and break down what is potentially harmful. Although they were able to find glutathione has protective effect against the damage CS has on the body I still feel that it is almost inevitable that CS will ruin all function of enzymes. It is great to find cures or help for something damaging don’t get me wrong. This article needs more to it for it was really short...
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...In present day and age, smoking is something so widespread that it will only be fair to regard it as a socially acceptable norm. Tobacco has always been smoked in one form or another for what seems like an eternity and as the years progressed, it appeared in the form of cigarettes. Smoking has always been a controversial issue, one that has been raising eyebrows ever since its adoption as an addiction. The reasons people start smoking are entirely different from the ones that prevent them from giving up this life threatening habit. Research has concluded and it has also been medically proven that smokers put quitting smoking next to impossible as cigarettes contain nicotine which is an exceedingly addictive drug. Some physicians even claim that nicotine can be as addictive as cocaine or heroin which leaves no doubt as to why individuals fail to quit it once they get started. While it is obvious that the nicotine in cigarettes makes you vulnerable to certain health hazards, the way it affects the brain and other organs remains a mystery. Physicians believe that the way nicotine can make a smoker feel depends on the quantity and frequency of intake. Based on how much and how often you smoke, one can restrain the influence of nicotine on the brain and body. When nicotine enters the body, it instructs the brain to release a hormone called adrenaline. Often called the 'fight or flight' hormone, adrenaline causes an increase in heartbeat, raises blood pressure and causes irregular...
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...that has helped hundreds of thousands of people quit smoking under the false claims that it is more harmful than cigarettes. It has come to the realization of the e cigarette industry that there are many people who are reading about experiments done by the FDA that try to dramatize the dangers of e cigarettes. In the most recent attempt to ban electronic cigarettes the big tobacco industry has pushed an FDA ban on all electronic cigarette devices made past 2009. E cigarettes are far better than cigarettes in many ways and the FDA is trying to ban them to save the tobacco industry this is wrong they should be promoting this product as a safer alternative to smoking. Because of all the action against vaping, this essays purpose is to inform as many people as possible about what would happen if vaping was banned and the negative effects that would follow and let them determine how the FDA should handle e cigarettes. Smoke from cigarettes contain more than 7000 chemicals and 250 of those are known to be harmful. Some of the harmful chemicals include hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia and another 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer. (CDC) In e-cigarette juice there are at most 5 components. The base of e liquid is typically vegetable glycerin or VG or propylene glycol or PG. Both are in real cigarettes at higher doses than the e cigarettes. Both are used in some weird and nasty products like antifreeze but both are also FDA approved for use in food and...
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...Wetzel 1 Recent studies have concluded smokeless tobacco is a safer alternative than smoking. Smokeless tobacco does not give off harmful effects to the environment or other people. Cigarette smoke can harm others since second hand smoke has been linked to lung disease. Smokeless tobacco should be used more than cigarettes, because it is less harmful than other tobacco products. Smoking harms a lot of people including children and adults, as well animals. By switching to smokeless tobacco products lives can save lives. Smokeless tobacco should be used more than cigarettes and other products. There are medical consequences of smoking and in the early stages of cancer it is hard to detect. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body (CDC)....
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...advice from health professionals that can go to a school and inform young teens the harmful effects about smoking and the long-term effect on smoking which can decrease the quality of life in the future. Or use shock tactics to show the children what can happen if they are smoking and show the effect that it has inside and outside of the body. This can be addressed to secondary children as they are getting into the phase of trying new...
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...The Structure of The Sniper The story The Sniper takes place in Dublin, Ireland and it talks about a time in which snipers roamed the city and Republicans are waging a civil war. The story is very specific in what happens within the story and describes everything that happens in great detail. Even though this story has a straightforward approach, many of the key elemental structures that hold this story together are hard to perceive from the story itself. The exposition of the story starts off with an overview of Dublin and what has happened to it. It explains that it was nighttime and the city Dublin was quiet until gunshots from machine guns and rifles roared through the city. The author uses this as the narrative hook to grab the...
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...eating? How about frequent belching? Do you also find it difficult to swallow your food? If you have these signs and symptoms, you might be having an acid reflux. Acid reflux disease is a common health problem that happens when the acid in your stomach flows back to your esophagus. That’s why the condition is more specifically referred to as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Reports have shown that in the United States, 25-40% of people experience the signs and symptoms of acid reflux at some point in their lives while 7-10% have to deal with the symptoms every day. The disease can affect all age groups...
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...If you ask people why they smoke most probably the answer would be the same, because where they grow up and the culture itself affects them. According to West (1993), “Nicotine does not affect people positively in their daily life activities, rather than publicity that's convincing them it does”. Without the presence of nicotine in the body, it leads to changes in the smoker’s mood and performance, and starts being less productive but it’s all a matter of tolerance if the body can tolerate without nicotine or not. What actually happens is that smoking helps them to get relieved for the moment they are smoking, after they finish so they can’t tolerate and they start to get moody until they have another one. That’s the problem that's facing smokers, they can’t tolerate staying for a while without smoking. If the body and brain can’t tolerate staying without nicotine it starts to affect them, West (1993) stated that, “It is worth noting that some effects of nicotine can be reliably observed under well- defined conditions, for example, light-headedness, tremor, increased heart rate and nausea can all occur in the absence of...
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...that smoking is bad. When I was in kindergarden, each child was given a contract to sign saying when we turned 18 we wouldn't start smoking. Obviously this is a silly and ineffective way to get kids not to smoke, but of course they had good reasons. These days, no one can claim to be ignorant of the negative health effects caused by smoking, but this awareness doesn't seem to be doing much to hurt the industry – in a paper published by the World Health Organization, over 1.2 billion people smoke worldwide. That's only slightly less than the population of China. However, many remain unaware of the consequences the tobacco industry has on the environment. In fact, the entire life cycle of a cigarette is damaging to the ecosystem, beginning in the fields where tobacco is grown, during cigarette production and consumption, and after the filter is disposed of. Everyone over the age of eighteen, at least in the US, has the right to choose whether or not to smoke, but I believe that to take steps to fix this environmental mess we've put ourselves in, first we must be informed of the effect we have. Tobacco is one of the most environmentally irresponsible crops to grow. According to The Smoke Ring: The Politics of Tobacco by Peter Taylor, tobacco is a weak plant that requires a great deal of pesticides. Tobacco also causes severe nutrient depletion in the soil, necessitating regular chemical fertilizing. Besides heavily polluting the ground, these cultivation practices have led to chronic...
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...is no doubt that smoking cigarettes is an extremely harmful habit rooted in our culture that needs to be ended. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Have you ever had to watch your loved one that you know suffer or die from smoking? When I was just eight years old I witnessed my great-grandma die from lung cancer. Distraught and confused, I asked my mom for an explanation and she simply held up a cigarette. I don’t understand how something so small and accessible can have such a huge impact on a person’s life. Whether you’re currently an avid smoker or despise the addicting habit, there is no denying the negative consequences that come from smoking cigarettes. Today, over millions of people all over the world voluntarily choose to poison their bodies with countless harmful toxins all leading to one eminent result: a prompt and unavoidably strenuous fatality. I. Thesis: There is no doubt that smoking cigarettes is an extremely harmful habit rooted in our culture that needs to be ended. II. Preview: Today I am going to talk to you about the negative effects smoking imposes on your body, how educating people about this harmful habit will prevent more deaths and possible resolutions to this problem. III. [Transition: Preview the introduction] Body I. Problem: The negative effects smoking imposes on your body A. Lung cancer 1. According to the book “After Tobacco” Smoking accounts for 85% of lung cancer cases. 2. According to the article “Cigarette smoking and lung cancer:...
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