firm no. Although this seems strange, why wouldn’t they report it since it is against the law? Pondering on my thoughts and from personal experience, my reason would be simply because it’s not killing me. We walk by people every-day who smoke cigarettes out in the open. On the sidewalk and outside of building entrances. Not illegal, but the second hand smoke is just as deadly, following with third hand smoke that sticks to clothing and other materials. This has been proven to kill, slowly and painfully
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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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his health over the past 10 years. Client was hospitalized 3 years ago for left should reconstructive surgery due to a motorcycle accident. Describe general health Client claims to be a smoker for the past 25 years. Client smokes roughly 6-8 cigarettes a day. Client claims to have regular sleep patters with 6-9 hours of sleep a night. Previous illnesses, accidents, injuries, or operations Client denies having any childhood illnesses. Client had motorcycle accident, age 38. Suffered left shoulder
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immigrants first arrive as infants, they are commonly healthy humans. This is because of the healthy immigrant effect. To become an immigrant, there is a lot of tasks you must complete. Some being health related such as vaccines and screenings for diseases.
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[pic] Smoking during pregnancy causes Health problems for mom and baby. For Example, smoking is one of the Causes of problems with the placenta. Smoking during pregnancy can cause a baby to be born too early and have low birth weight making it more likely the babywill become sick or die. Smoking during and after pregnancy will causes sudden infant death syndrome. Babies born to women who smoke are more likely to have a cleft lip or cleft palate . SItes, 31 Sites, 2000—2005
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health priority in relation to my patient Jane smith. Asthma is a chronic disease of the Respiratory system in which the air passages or bronchial tubes in the lungs become inflamed, swollen and narrowed, preventing free/ easy air flow into and out of lungs. Miss smith is a 12 year old female that suffers from asthma, she is in a healthy weight range although she finds it difficult to exercise because of the seriousness of her disease. She is a student that lives with her two parents and is an only child
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“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.” –Matthew Gray Gubler. About 20 percent of Americans population smoke cigarettes. There has been reports of the Heart Association that tobacco smoking has caused more than 440,000 death each year
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as more of people become aware of the dangers of smoking tobacco, the percentage of smokers has fallen from around 50 per cent of the population in the 1950s to 25 per cent in 2003. The illnesses can cause cancer, heart disease and respiratory illnesses. Smoking can cause impotence, ulcers and fertility problems and it's doesn't just harm smokers. However, the decline in smoking in the population has leveled off and the percentage of people smoking in the last 10 years seems to have remained at around
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the regulation on e-cigarettes. According to Logan and Campanile (2017) more than 3 million middle school and high school students have used e-cigarettes in the past month. E-cigarettes were used by 11.3% of high school students nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Tobacco use by teens has dropped due to new laws that increase cigarette taxes and banning smoking in public venues, causing them to to switch to e-cigs. The article further states that e-cigarettes could remain on the
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Our Right to Choose Michael S. Mays Sr. ITT-Tech The topic of legalizing marijuana has become a very hot topic here in the Unites States of America. With sixteen states having medical marijuana laws already in place and seventeen states with pending legalization legislation (http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002481); many communities are split on the issue due to misinformation and stigmas. Even though marijuana is stigmatized as a gateway drug that leads children
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