Smoking can also affect women who are pregnant or wish to become pregnant. Smoking can make it harder for a woman to become pregnant, and if a pregnant woman smokes, she is at risk for premature delivery, stillbirth, low birth weight, SIDS, ectopic pregnancy, and orofacial clefts in babies (www.cdc.gov). Smoking can reduce a man’s fertility. It can affect bone health, as well as the health of teeth and gums. Smoking increases the risk for cataracts and macular degeneration. Smoking is also a cause of
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Aimee Crippen 11/4/12 H.S. 103 Political Action “Hot Issue” Abortion Meeting in the Middle Societies view on abortion is based on two extremes Pro-Life and Pro- Choice but the idealistic of both view have drastic outcomes. To say that someone is "pro-life" is to say that the person believes that the government has an obligation to preserve all human life, regardless of intent, viability, or quality-of-life concerns. To be "pro-choice" is to believe that individuals
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any were they could. All my friends acknowledge that I didn’t engage in drugs. This acknowledgement of theirs didn’t stop them from offering me drugs. Every time my best friend Gina and I hanged out she had a blunt with her. This drug business was getting annoying, when I would tell them to quit, there reply was ‘’we are in America, this is a free country!’’. I speculated to myself if my best friends would end their addiction, I didn’t know what else to do to help them quit, since my words were garbage
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performance and schools. I think that school should have random drug tests because I feel it will help student and their daily activities. Students cannot focus well while being in a classroom while under the influence of marijuana or any other kind of drugs. Smoking can have an effect on a lot of teenager’s grades. There has been a big failure rate in the Unites States due to teenager’s low performance. Most of the low performance is due to drug use. Around the world a lot of schools have had killings
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The lifestyle pregnant women live at time affect the life of unborn infant. Most women think that pregnancy is all about bringing life into the world. They forget that it take a lot to keep the unborn child safe by taking precaution in the dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of life. Some pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do
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The Causes of Drug Addiction For many, the subject of drug use in any way whether it be the production, the exchange or the actual use is a touchy issue. Drugs such as meth, cocaine, and crack have been around for decades and drugs like heroine have been around for centuries. Drugs such as cocaine and heroin can cause major life-altering effects on a person by impairing internal organs, limiting one's abilities and skills that would make one suitable to interact with others successfully. They
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form their opinions on their already religious beliefs and morals. Right now in the United States, it is legal everywhere to perform an abortion. Abortion can be done at many different stages of the pregnancy and most people’s opinion on abortion differs with their thoughts of when during the pregnancy should it be ok to abort. I believe that abortion should always be legal because no one person has the right to tell a woman that she must have a child, even if it was a mistake. Accidents happen whether
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to be the most serious consequence of a mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy and is considered the #1 cause of mental retardation in the United States, and it is one that is entirely preventable. FAS was first reported in France in 1968 and noticed/discussed in the United States by Jones and Smith in 1973. Jones and Smith would identify distinctive facial features in children who were exposed to alcohol during pregnancy. Some of these facial features are: short eyelid openings, flat midface
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Drugs are defined as, “a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.” These substances are known for degrading and tearing communities apart, and in most cases ruining the lives of loved ones if used in a manner that eventually leads to addictive and criminal behaviors. Heroin, or as some would say smack, dope, and Chiva, is a highly addictive opioid drug. While medical-grade heroin, diamorphine, continues to be used in other
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: A Community Concern Introduction Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use on college and university campuses poses tremendous concern for parents, students, higher education professionals, governmental officials, and the general community. No school is immune to substance use and resulting adverse consequences. Alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana are the most commonly used drugs on college campuses, but this use encompasses drugs of varying forms including amphetamine
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