vascular system. * Leads to poor lung development (meaning that their lungs never grow to their full potential). * Studies show sudden infant death syndrome occurs in infants that are around smoke. * * Insert your second reason here. * Insert your third reason here. Secondhand Smoke Poses Hazard to Infants Listed are a few reasons why this topic is important * Infants that are around people that smoke are at increased risk for infections such as ear infections.
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Smoking is, by far, the greatest risk factor in developing Lung cancer. The question is: Why is it that healthy non-smokers get lung cancer? According to Cancer.org at least 16,000 to 24,000 Americans who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer every year. People who claim they have never smoked, in reality actually have. They don’t smoke actively with a cigarette pressed against their lips. However, they are passive smokers, which means they breathe in the smoke that is exhaled by
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The effects of Second Hand Smoke on your Baby Resources Available to Help You * California Smokers’ Helpline Free personalized telephone support from trained counselors. 1-800-NO BUTTS * Clean Air Smoking Cessation Group Programs Crozer-Keystone Health System 610-447-6009 * American Lung Association 1-800-LUNGUSA www.lungsusa.org * Nicotine Anonymous nicotine-anonymous.org According to the surgeon general 60% of innocent children are exposed
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pursuit of many people, especially young generation, around the world. They are convinced of that happiness can bought by sufficient money. However, they could neglect the fact that happiness is not just determined by one factor but many others such as your friends, relatives, and pleasant experience. In my perspective, happiness does not always increase in direct ratio to the rise of money. Focusing on the illusion that money brings happiness may have an unexpected adverse effect that may lead to a misallocation
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Composition I Why is it that smoking pot is so taboo in our society? After all, numerous famous intellectuals support marijuana. Al Gore is considered by many to be the leading figure in climate change awareness and environmental preservation. But few people know that Al Gore also supports the legalization of marijuana. The famed German philosopher Freidrich Nietzche once said, “If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure one is to eat hashish”. The founding father of our nation George Washington
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No to drugs, smoking, alcohol and to stay safe from violence. D.A.R.E. stands for D-define, A-asses (what are your choices), R-respond, E-evaluate. I now know how to say NO politely, change the subject and leave the situation. For example, if you are at a friend’s house and you decide to go to the skate park to meet another friend but when you get to the skate park there is group of older kids there. They ask you to come down behind the bleachers, pulling out a pack of cigarettes, asking you
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There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When they are burned they create 4,000 chemicals that are harmful to our respiratory system. 50 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer and other diseases.(http://chealth.canoe.com, February 8, 2017) Why is the government letting the sales of tobacco continue? Smoking costs nearly $300 billion a year to the United States alone.(https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco, February 9, 2017) This includes the money that is needed to pay for treatment
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nearby and the smoke that drifts from the smoldering end of a cigarette between puffs. Compared to the smoke that a smoker inhales, ETS is aged and highly diluted. More than 3,800 different compounds, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde, and acrolein, are produced from a burning cigarettes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2006). There are two types of smoke that come from pipes, cigars and cigarettes. Sidestream smoke which comes directly from the burning tobacco
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Preparation, Health and Lifestyle for the Public Services Assignment Three of Three – Lifestyle, Health and Improvement Assessor name – Keith Hobbs The average young person/child should be completing at least one hour of moderate exercise, such as cycling The average young person/child should be completing at least one hour of moderate exercise, such as cycling Physical activity The positives of exercise: * Improved physical health – regular exercise increases strength in your muscles and
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The Suing of Tobacco Companies Try to imagine six million people. Six million people are equivalent to the number of Jewish people who died in the holocaust. Six million people are equivalent to five times the number of Americans who have died in all the wars combined. As a society this number is viewed as outrageous and unacceptable, yet every single year six million people die from tobacco related illnesses and for some reason this number is not seen as ridiculous when these deaths are attributed
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