activities like combustion, mass vehicular use, industrial activities, drilling, and other urban activities is the leading cause of high levels toxins being released into the air that is being breathed in. these toxins are linked to illness like bronchitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, and other pulmonary conditions and diseases. Urbanization can also have a negative effect on the environment. All of the toxins released in the air do not only affect humans, but it isn’t
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that can affect your lungs. Diseases or conditions of the lung fall mainly into two classes -- those that make breathing harder and those that damage the lungs' ability to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. Some of them include asthma emphysema, bronchitis, pneumothorax, apnea, and trauma. For the purpose of this project I will be discussing how a pneumothorax affects your lungs. A pneumothorax is a collapsed lung. Pneumothorax occurs when air leaks into
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Poor Air Quality and Its Effects on Human Health. In this day and age, nature harming activities such as deforestation, clearcutting and illegal logging are at their peak to provide new plots of land to build skyscrapers and highways. While immense advancements in technology and industry have made life much easier, these man-made creations have also created a global problem – air pollution. Air pollution is the introduction and addition of harmful substances such as carbon monoxide and lead compounds
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so did its consequences. By the 1960s, when the first Surgeon General’s warning appeared on cigarette labels, the dangers of smoking were well-known, yet still ignored by many. It was no secret that smoking was the primary cause of lung cancer, bronchitis, and a myriad of other complications---that is why ever since, the Centers for Disease Control and American Cancer Society have worked to educate the public and put an end to the deceitful ploys of cigarette companies. In a print public service
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----------------------- Protect your Family • Make your home and car smoke free. • Family, friends or visitors should never smoke inside your home or car. • Keep yourself and your children away from places where smoking is allowed. • If you smoke, smoke only outside. • Ask your doctor for ways to help you stop smoking (EPA, 2011) • • Facts about Environmental Tobacco Smoke Infants and toddlers have tiny bodies, tiny lungs, and breathe rapidly
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Influenza Influenza is a virus capable of causing significant human disease which attacks the respiratory system. “Although the infection generally is limited to the lung, some strains of influenza can spread to other sites in certain people” (Murray, Rosenthal, & Pfaller, 2013, p. 530). According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013), people with flu can spread it to others up to about 6 feet away. There are three types of influenza virus; influenza A, B, and C. The type A viruses
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The Effects of Smoking The harmful substances in cigarette smoke include:- * Tar * Carbon Monoxide * Nicotine Short Term effects of tar * It settles in the lining of alveoli causing th diffusion distance to increase. * The chemicals in tar cause an allergic reaction. This forces the smooth muscle to contract and narrows the lumen. * It destroys the cilia so mucus cannot be removed. It also makes the goblet cells secrete more mucus. * Bacteria and Viruses build up
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am thankful to the Almighty God for His inspiration, guidance and strength throughout thecourse of this work.Many thanks to my supervisor, MR. ABDUrRAHMAN ABDULAHI for taking time to supervise meduring my training.I also express my profound gratitude to all members of staff of FRESH FIELD FARMS LIMITED who gave me training and provided a conducive environ for the exercise.Many more thanks goes to the company nurse, MRS. RAMON LATEEFAT who always cateredto me and extends
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1. Blast/oma-a cancer made of immature cells ↓ ↓ Root suffix 2. Toxico/logy-study of poisons. ↓ ↓ Root suffix 3. Intra/venous-means to cut into a vein. ↓ ↓ Root suffix 4. An/phoria-not feeling or bearing. ↓ ↓ Root suffix 5. Psycho/genic-means produced by mind. ↓ ↓ Combining form suffix 6. Neuro/leptic-to seize hold of the nerve. ↓ ↓
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Waltermire Crime and Criminology JUS-110 January 25, 2014 Breaking Bad Again The stench in the air permeates and causing pneumonia, chemical bronchitis, possibly collapsed lungs. These are just a few of the medical problems to suffer breathing fumes from the production of meth. Exposure to the chemicals used in meth production damages the central nervous system, skin, kidneys and a major irritant
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