Smoking Compounds produced by tobacco and additives creates a complex mixture that can is deadly to human beings. The smoke from cigarettes contain tar which is made up of 4000 chemicals and 60 known carcinogenic chemicals causing heart and lung disease to include emphysema. The ingredients found in a cigarette smoke that not contain poisonous gases such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, Methanol (wood alcohol), Acetylene (fuel used in welding torches), and ammonia
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Lyme Disease Eric Bickhart University of Phoenix student NUR/427 August 4, 2014 Amy Highland Personal Impact Paper: Lyme Disease “Since its identification nearly 30 years ago, Lyme disease has continued to spread, and there have been increasing numbers of cases in the northeastern and north central US. The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, causes infection by migration through tissues, adhesion to host cells and evasion of immune clearance” (Steere, 2004). This disease is transmitted
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Heroin Addiction Psyc 305 B-03 June 15, 2015 Abstract: This paper will serve to provide information about heroin addiction in our society. Heroin addiction is an epidemic problem in the United States and is growing every year. Factors such as genetics and environmental factors will be discussed as they relate to heroin addicts. Trends with prescription pain medication and their effects on heroin use will be discussed. This paper will also highlight the prevalence of heroin
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ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL VIRGINIA MONTGOMERY COM 220 RESEARCH WRITING 3-01-10 TO 5-02-10 MIKKI MCDONALD The clutches that alcohol has on those dependent on it can make fleeing from it very difficult and, at times, almost impossible. Some people are able to have one or two drinks and stop - then there are those that do not know when to stop or who
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a physical addiction to tobacco products. Many health experts now regard habitual smoking as a psychological addiction, too, and one with serious health consequences. Smoking risks Smoking is recognized as the leading preventable cause of death, causing or contributing to the deaths of approximately 430,700 Americans each year. Anyone with a smoking habit has an increased chance of lung, cervical, and other types of cancer; respiratory diseases such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis;
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two to four months without treatment. Smoking can also cause almost any type of cancer and a range of cardiovascular diseases, including strokes, heart attacks, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These facts and statistics truly show how much of a problem smoking is, and yet there are millions of people who still smoke because of the beginning of an addiction when they were
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as a medical disease. True, alcoholism has many ramifications for society as well as the economy, but the focus of this paper shall be, for the most part, on the medical aspects. In the way of background, alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that major aspects of the individual’s life -such as work, school, family relationships or personal SAFETY AND HEALTH, above all, are seriously and repeatedly interfered with. Alcoholism is considered a disease, meaning that
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As one prescription drug abuser in his early 20’s explained: Once people (pill brokers) know you take them prescription opioids, they’ll start calling you. “Oh, it’s this time of the month.” Then they wait for that person to get their script. They know exactly in their head what day the script’s getting ready to come so they got the patterns down. Pill brokers and dealers reported congregating in open air drug markets typically strip mall and pharmacy parking lots, and outside methadone clinics
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mortality provides insight into what we have learned and what the future holds for the advancement of healthcare. Since the early 1900’s, leading causes of death included: • Influenza/Pneumonia • Kidney disease • Stroke • Cancer • Heart disease • Accidents • Certain diseases of early infancy • Chronic lower
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DIEGO MARADONA DIEGO MARADONA DRUGS USE SOCCER LEGEND DIEGO MARADONA HAS REVEALED THAT HE STRUGGLED WITH DRUG ADDICTION DURING HIS PLAYING DAYS AND BELIEVES THAT HE COULD HAVE ACHIEVED MORE IF HE WEREN’T AN ADDICT. MARADONA, WHO WAS PART OF ARGENTINA’S WORLD CUP WINNING TEAM IN 1986, ADMITTED HE FEELS MUCH OLDER THAN HIS 53 YEARS DUE TO HIS FORMER LIFESTYLE. HE BEGAN USING COCAINE IN THE MID-1980S AND WAS ADDICTED UNTIL 2004, IN ADDITION TO SUFFERING FROM ALCOHOLISM. DURING THAT TIME
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