... has many poisonous ingredients as well. These include ammonia, tar, carbon monoxide, dried tobacco leaves as well as ingredients that are added by different manufactures to enhance flavor. The effect these ingredients have on a smoker's health is not known, but there ... smoker's risk of heart disease or stroke. There are two major types of lung cancer "small cell" and "non-small cell". Small cell lung cancer are generally faster growing then non small cell. Most lung cancer are caused by cigarette smoking. The more you smoke per day, the ... you to become well. Your doctor can prescrib...

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... 's generation? You go out and you see people of all ages; starting from ten and even younger to 70 years of age smoking. It seems to have become an epidemic, and the reason for this is simple. Peer pressure, stress and trying to live up the image of being "cool". But do these people actually know what the consequences of their actions are. It ... 's simple, death. The oxford dictionary defines a cigarette as a roll of shredded tobacco in thin paper used for smoking and smoking this cigarette is considered to be one of the most serious but preventable health problems facing the world. The ...

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... substance abuse -- totalling $20 billion out of the $87 billion spent on such care in fiscal year 1994. Eighty percent of that -- $16 billion -- paid for care for smoking-related disease and disabilities. • Cigarette smoking is the largest single drain on the Medicare Trust Fund, poised to take $800 billion over the next 20 years, according to a study of hospital ... of cancer and the 7 percent rise in cancer's mortality since 1971, a National Cancer Institute advisory committee panel says. Cancer is currently the second-largest killer in the nation (behind heart disease), but could b...

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Second-Hand smoke causes 3,000 deaths from lung cancer, 13,000 deaths from other cancers, and 37,000 deaths from lung disease in the United States, each year. Second-Hand smoke, or passive smoke, is not as hazardous as mainstream smoke, it is still a ... you quit smoking your levels of physical activity will increase8. When taking a glimpse of all the top athletes in the world, it can be noted that none of them are frequent tobacco product users. Another aspect of smoking and the human body is the effect of nicotine on body weight. Nicotine, the drug found in cigarettes, is usually what ... ...

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... of age annually, resulting in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year. 2. An estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 35,000 coronary heart disease deaths occur annually among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. Conclusion: In the US, tobacco causes nearly ... in the world today. Tobacco-caused deaths worldwide are expected to increase from about 4 million per year today to about 10 million per year by the 2030s. Action Plan: So, What do we do? The earlier we learn the better. There are great programs out there that teach our chil...

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... cars. Carbon monoxide prevents the red blood cells to carry the required oxygen to the body's cells, which results in less energy. Often, smokers are tired more easily than a person who never smokes. Smoking debilitates a person's athletic ability and destroys their body gradually, which results in an earlier ... Smoking results in the ultimate price: death. But before that comes, you live in a world of pain and disease. Remember what USA Today says, "When you light up, your whole body's smoking!" In addition to destroying your physical body, smoking also harms you mentally. Although smo...

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... smoke by opening up the receptors in it. When you sleep at night the Nicotine level drops very low and that is the reason people usually reach for a cigarette right after they wake up. (Boughton) What are the risks of smoking? Smoking has two kinds of effects, long term and short-term effects. The short term effects happen after a few years of smoking ... and usually are coughing, wheezing, dizziness, shortness of breath, bad breath, decreased physical fitness and reduced lung function. Although ... hand smoke really that bad? Yes, second hand smoke is almost as bad for you as actually...

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... lung cancer deaths, are caused from smoking. (www.ash.org). One- third of our population is at risk for lung cancer along with other cancers caused by smoking. Other cancers caused from smoking include: cancers of the mouth, tongue, throat, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, bladder and kidney. Not only can you get cancer from smoking but you can also get coronary heart disease. (www.smokinglungs ... arteries and accelerates the arteriosclerosis of blood vessel making higher chances for plaque formation within the walls of the arteries, making them more susceptible to coronary heart disease."...

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... in your car to go to work or the grocery store, do you ever stop and think "That might be the last time I see my family."? Have you ever checked the batteries for the smoke detectors in your house just in case there was ever a fire? Isn't it a responsibility ... companies, nearly 1 out of every 4 Americans has formed an addiction to tobacco. Cigarettes can be the cause or involved in causing cancer, limiting age, heart disease, causing strokes, pregnancy complications, etc. Overall, smoking tobacco is very damaging to ones health and could result in death. Cigarettes not only harm the ...

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... the only deadly effect of Second-Hand Smoke. The American Heart Association estimates 40,000 die each year from heart and blood vessel disease caused by second-hand smoke. Environmental Protection agency is responsible for about 3,000 lung cancer deaths each year among non-smokers in the U.S. ... is gas chamber poison. The deadliest and most killer of all is Nicotine. Nicotine is what draws you in to smoking constantly. Some reactions to second hand smoke are irritants but some are deadly. Some of the irritants are irritations of the eye, nose, and throat, passive smoking can also irritat...

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... of breath, and coughing; lung cancer and diseases caused by passive smoking; gangrene as a result of poor circulation; and heart attack and cardiovascular diseases " rheumatic heart disease, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysm."" (http://www.spinneypress.com.au/147_book_desc.html) Smoking among today's youth seems to be an alarming and rising issue. This report ... to smoke and as a result 10 of those students carried it through to be daily smokers. One of the questions on the survey was where do yo...

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... something that children of a younger age cannot address, so it is left up to the parent to decide whether or not to continue smoking with children in the car. Have you ever wondered exactly what this smoking is doing to both the smokers and the non-smokers? This is a query that has disturbed me for years. I have found that there ... death among Americans. Smoking causes more deaths than AIDS, murder, suicide, fires, alcohol and illegal drugs combine (www.thetruth.com). You may have heard that smoking causes cancer, but there are many more effects of smoking than just cancer that people ...

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... the most common cause of death and illness in Britain and smoking causes a third of these deaths. Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels are the four biggest risk factors in cardiovascular disease. This is because all four factors dramatically increase the risk of hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). High blood pressure is often treated with medication, but they will ... only reduce the risk of heart disease by a tiny amount if they continue to smoke whilst on the medication in which they are receiving. So to gain any benefit in taking medication to r...

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... harmful substances that have built up from the previous day of smoking. (McMillon, 15.) The three most common diseases found among active smokers are lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. (Life Skills, 4.) Other diseases include Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health complications, gastric ulcers, diabetes, and many more. (Quit.) Smoking greatly effects pregnant women. Smoking by a pregnant women may ... have precancerous lesions on their lungs and children of smokers have higher rates of illness and more school absenteeism. (Bender, 41.) Passive...

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... millions continue to smoke, taking their health and jeopardizing it. Even if the cigarette manufacturers were to put a message on the carton of cigarettes that said,"These will eventually kill you", millions would still smoke. We know all the dangers of smoking, why not create a law to make it illegal? Making cigarettes illegal would reduce the health risks involved with smoking ... more diseases and health risks that the 45 million people who continue to smoke, even after being told about the risks, can contract. What a person does not realize are the many unknown health risks involved...

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... become addicted to. Some factors that may influence whether or not the drug is addicting are how fast it takes effect, how the drug made you feel, how long the feeling lasts, and what kinds of withdrawals occur when you no longer take the drug. Let's begin with our most legal drugs today, Alcohol and tobacco cigarettes. According to Web M.D., a reputable medical website, Nearly ... diseases that can be prevented. Every year more than one million Americans become smokers and four hundred thousand die. Smoking increases chances of lung cancer, cancers associated with smoking, heart diseas...

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... of second-hand smoke. However, there is also a less life threatening effects on their appearance. Do you know what happens to you when you smoke? Well, your lungs get all black, and you have very hard time breathing. Your lungs don't get enough oxygen; you start to feel tired. These are some of the symptoms that result from lung cancer. According to the Heart and Lung Association ... , the walls of the tiny air spaces and blood vessels are destroyed. Your lungs don't get enough oxygen, which means you can't even walk or run without an oxygen tank. Another result of smoking is the risk of...

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... people still smoke because of its addictiveness. In addition, many of teenagers, 27 percent of seniors in high school in America, are still smoking. Have you wondered why? What might be a good solution for this problem? The history of tobacco is well known to almost everyone. A century before Columbus sailed ... after Kennedy's assassination, shocked everyone at that time. Smoking was found as a major cause of lung cancer and much other lung disease. From this point, the production and advertising of tobacco were limited by laws, and today we can see a conspicuous warning on the pack .....

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... produced immediate pain, our societal problems of excessive medical expenses resulting from emphysema patients" frequent and prolonged hospitalizations, increased motor vehicle fatalities from drunk drivers, or problems with cardiovascular disease would be diminished or non-existent. This would be an ideal paradigm of any culture; however, sensibly, pain may be a long-term affect from such habits with the ... affects my breathing rate and heart rate. Does my anxiety of cigarette smoking result from physiological and psychological variables? Anxiety occurs in your life when you do not ha...

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... your life, can affect others around you and yourself. Every time you smoke, it's like cutting 5 minutes of your life and there are many ways to quit. About 430,000 people in the US die every year from smoking related problems. Everyone knows that smoking effects the heart and the lungs. But what about the other parts of our ... ) is the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness and affects more Americans than cataracts and glaucoma combined. Smokers also run into a increased risk in cataracts. Cataracts are a clouding of the eye's lens that blocks light. Smoking irritates the eyes...

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... find friends and often give into peer pressure in order to feel accepted. These teens are extremely self-conscious. They are willing to do anything so they aren't looked at as different or an outcast. What many teens don't know is that smoking can become a habit with many risks and is ... brain faster than any other drug that enters the body intravenously. Which makes it very hard to quit once you have started to smoke. Some immediate effects smoking can have on a person are wheezing, coughing, bad breath, smelly hair and clothes, yellow stained teeth and fingers, frequent clothes, and d...

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... die annually from smoking related diseases. In Scotland about 34% of the population smoke and of these half will die premature of a smoking related disease. Smoking is a major aetiological factor for lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease, as well as causing many other diseases. The current cost to the NHS of treating such patents currently stands at £1.7 billion per year ... young people.4 With the highest rates of smoking in social class V, creating a smoking inequality4. However we should look at the fact that 2% of smokers are glad they started and the ...

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... fires combined. Several studies have found nicotine to be addictive in ways similar to those of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. Smokers have almost twice the risk of having coronary heart disease as nonsmokers. Smokers' risk of getting lung cancer is approximately 14 times than that of nonsmokers. It has taken many years for tobacco products deadly effects to be scientifically documented ... , why is it OK near schools? The ads promote smoking and smoking promotes death and disease, it does nothing but cause problems in this nation there should be more rules and regulations to abide by whe...

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... University of Pennsylvania don't smoke anymore or have not smoked and 40% of them do smoke. Smoking cannot only mess up teenager's life but it also leads to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's Disease is a common form of dementia of unknown causes, progressive memory loss and mental deterioration associated with brain damage. Laboratory and clinical researched that cigarette smoke contain around 4000 chemicals, some ... beginning to suffer. "I have been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes, Degenerative Bone Disease, Hypertension, ...

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... fires combined. Several studies have found nicotine to be addictive in ways similar to those of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. Smokers have almost twice the risk of having coronary heart disease as nonsmokers. Smokers' risk of getting lung cancer is approximately 14 times than that of nonsmokers. It has taken many years for tobacco products deadly effects to be scientifically documented ... , why is it OK near schools? The ads promote smoking and smoking promotes death and disease, it does nothing but cause problems in this nation there should be more rules and regulations to abide by whe...

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