restaurants, and workplaces. People are starting to understand the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Although these restraints help, banning cigarettes in only a few places is not enough. In order to completely stop the horrible effects of smoking cigarettes, they must become illegal. By making cigarettes illegal, no individual will have to suffer from third-hand smoke, second-hand smoke, or health problems caused by smoking. Cigarettes have killed too many people; it is time for them to finally be put
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Many countries have now implemented laws to ban smoking in workplaces and public places. The aim of this policy is to protect the health of general public and workers from the harms tobacco use can cause such as death, disease and disability. Studies in the USA, Scotland and England showed that smoke free laws have positive health impacts such as the reduction of hospital admissions for heart attacks. In England, The legislation resulted in a significant reduction (-2.4%) in the number of hospital
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foreshadowing and stereotypes, the author creates believable characters. Imagery is a technique that uses figurative language and descriptions to represent objects actions, ideas and people. Caswell uses this technique well when he describes The Youth smoking. This gives readers the impression that this character is not to be reckoned with. As he describes the youth this gives readers more information about the attitude and personality of the Youth. Caswell uses
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How Does the Triangle Factory Fire Effect us Today? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was tragic moment for the city of New York. You could have done many things to not start the fire. People don’t know for sure how it started, but we people today think a cigar was thrown into a bin which caused the fire. How does this affect our lives today? Well it does because this tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a
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going out without one. During that period of time, around half of the population of industrialized nations were smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes were originally sold as expensive handmade luxury goods for the rich people. There were not many people smoking until there were suddenly mass-production with aggressive marketing that ordinary people starting to have a habit of traditional pipe-smoking and chewing tobacco, it was a common thing and it was normal to do it . American tobacco firm Philip Morris
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Smoking is the most common cause due to which lung cancer is occurs, it can be seen by the stats i.e. more than 80% of cases. The reason for this is as cigarette smoke contains many chemicals which affects our body's way of filtering the air in the lungs. Smoke not only irritates lungs but also produce the mucus in large amount. It has the ability to paralyses the hair like tiny structure known as cilia whose purpose is to clean the lungs from dust and dirt. So this leads to accumulation of the toxic
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States, number of deaths caused by cigarette smoking annually is 480,000, comprising about 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). Using tobacco does not only kill people but they also suffer serious disability for a great segment of their lives because of tobacco use. Most of the disease and disability emerges from smoking, although some comes from using smokeless forms and any other smoking devices that use tobacco such as hookahs
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times as many Americans have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history (CDC). At first, one would find this hard to believe when they think about all the wars this country has been through over the years and the fact that many people have died from something as simple as cigarettes. However, when one looks at the research and statistics, the damaging effects of smoking are not so hard to believe anymore. It is estimated that
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Smoking nicotine is the leading cause of preventable diseases/disability and premature death currently in the United States and other countries. (Hughes, 2003). It is a fact that smoking cigarettes or tobacco is deleterious to your health. There are endless problems that are caused or affected by smoking, including lung cancer, physical performance and even how it affects your family and friends. Nicotine is a drug and is highly addictive and can be toxic if ingested in high doses. Nicotine does
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Phosgene was first used in combination with chlorine gas when Germany dropped 88 tons of the gas on British troops during World War One. It was used as a choking agent, and it was the cause of 80 percent of all chemical fatalities. Phosgene is a chemical that is used to make plastics and pesticides. It was used vastly in the war because it was the easiest chemical to make, you could make it at home. Phosgene is colorless and has a “grassy” odor. It is not found naturally in the environment so people
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