... constantly warned about health dangers in cigarettes. Although smokers constitute the majority of people who suffer from cigarettes, they are not the only ones ailing from cigarette smoke. As UC San Francisco scientist and author Stanton Glantz estimates in Shari Roan's article, the amount of second-hand smoke inhaled by the typical nonsmoker is equivalent to one cigarette smoked per day. Even ... of cigarettes the United States government denies the right the fifth amendment gave its citizens, ...nor be deprived of life, liberty...A report published from the Cardiovascular Research Ins...

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... is a major contention of the controversy. Those who disagree with SEPs feel that state and local tax dollars are being wasted on drug addicts. According to researchers at UC at San Francisco, Needle exchange programs can "prevent significant numbers of [HIV] infections among clients of the programs, their drug and sex partners and their offspring. In almost all cases, the cost per ... ...

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... places such as parks, or on public transportation, as well needles in trashcans that must be handled manually, all have the potential to infect. Fred Dillon, Policy Director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, compares the costs of syringes to HIV treatment as fifteen cents for a syringe at a pharmacy and $34,000 a year to treat an individual infected with HIV ("Advocates"). Another ... ...

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... of them on their own volition saying, "Help me, I want to stop smoking pot. It is causing me these problems I want to stop and I can't stop." At our program in San Francisco, we now have about one hundred patients every month who are in treatment specifically for marijuana addiction. So many who claim that marijuana is harmless have to sit down and ... ...

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