Whether it be one's parents or maybe peer pressure and the cultural activities that one grows up with, the factors are different for everyone but the long-term results are damaging to anyone. ... In the long run this harms your nervous system, heart, and blood vessels and causes high blood pressure, which is detrimental to your body and your health. ... Most experts, however, say the most powerful determinants of smoking are parents, peers and older siblings - not advertising. ... So we find that pressures of personal and social influences surrounding someone are the main factors tha...

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SMOKING Smoking, is it a social issue or a health problem? Smoking has been almost a required social behavior through out the ages, but today the major issue is the health problem smoking causes to smokers and non-smokers. In this report, I will discuss the socia...

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The purpose of "The Real Cost" campaign is to educate teens about the harmful effects of tobacco use. Their goal is to reduce the number of teens who experiment with smoking and become lifelong tobacco users. This ad was an educational ad released in order to try and prevent smoking in the United St...

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Smoking is a very addictive substance, peers, and parents can be a negative influence on you to smoke. The most common effect is peer pressure. ... The last reason that people shouldn't smoke is for the respect of your peers and people in general. ...

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After 20 minutes your blood pressure drops to a level close to that before the last cigarette. ... Most teens begin to smoke because of peer pressure or curiosity, but they are unaware of the long term effects the nicotine will have on them. ...

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Why has cigarette smoking increased in today'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 bei...

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Another reason is because of peer pressure. When people hang around people that smoke they are pressured to smoke also. ... It can increase your heart rate and get your blood pressure very high which is not good. ...

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The definition of smoking is "the inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco". Cigarettes are made with finely shredded tobacco rolled in lightweight paper. It is the most popular method of smoking. In the United States, about 45 million people smoke around 480 billion cigarettes each...

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Teens think that in order to fit in, he or she must do what everyone else is doing; therefore, teens give in to peer-pressure somewhat effortlessly. ... Some of the "immediate effects of nicotine are an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and hormone production, constriction of small blood vessels under the skin, changes in blood composition, and change in metabolism" (Surgery Door). ...

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Published research studies have found that kids are three times more sensitive to tobacco advertising than adults and are more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette marketing than by peer pressure, and that one-third of underage experimentation with smoking is attributable to tobacco company advertising. ... However, will think that there will be significant political pressure put on the companies that MSDW follows to comply with the treaty to the extent that they are able, even if this puts them at a competitive disadvantage relative to smaller local emerging market companies that ar...

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Exposure and peer pressure also have an effect on how people get started, but by controlling yourself in the early stages, you can defeat smoking before it even happens. ... Nicole Evans, from the Journal of National Cancer Institute said, "Tobacco marketing may be a stronger influence in encouraging adolescents to initiate the smoking uptake process than exposure to peer or family smokers." ...

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Smoking Education Do you want to die? Do you want your children to experience early deaths? These questions run through my mind every time I witness people puffing away on their cigarettes. It genuinely hurts me to see parents (like my father) smoking around their children. As if this isn't ...

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For a long time now many people have different view about smoking in public places and in other places. In my opinion, I believe that smoking should be completely banned. Not only is smoking any form of tobacco dangerous to you health, but it is also bad for the health of those around you. Do most...

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"Tobacco is a known or probable cause of death from: Cancer of the: lips, mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, pancreas, larynx; voice box; lungs, trachea and bronchus, bladder, kidney, liver, cervix, stomach, tongue, and penis. Tobacco also causes stroke; fires; paediatric diseases " low birth weight and r...

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When you think of smoking, what do you see? A hot chick with blonde hair, smoking a Virginia Slim, making it look so cool? Well what she doesn't know is that every time she inhales, her risk for lung cancer and heart attacks goes up. The smoke she exhales is so dangerous that her friend next to her ...

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Contents a) Abstract b) Introduction c) What can people in primary care do? d) Are there any pharmacological interventions? e) Conclusion f) References Abstract Objectives - To describe and explore the different approaches to smo...

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Are Lawsuits Against Tobacco Companies Justified? A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more could one want? (qtd. in Hilts, 102). Statistics show that there have been 1.1 billion smokers in the past 90 years, making ...

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Long-term heavy drinking increases the risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, some kinds of stroke, and cancer, especially cancer of the esophagus, mouth, throat, and voice box. ... Heavy smokers have nearly five times as many wrinkles as their non-smoking peers. ...

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"Hey let me bum a cigarette. Hey share the wealth, I need more alcohol." Teens today are having many problems dealing with drugs. Teenagers get influence by ads in magazines, ads on TV, people pressuring them, and from everyday life. Drugs and Alcohol does not help anything in the world. When teens ...

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