(855) 4-ESSAYS

Type a new keyword(s) and press Enter to search

Second Hand Smoke Is Killing Our Children

            Are adults who smoke putting children in their care at risk by exposing them to passive smoke?.
             According to one report, mothers who smoke at least ten cigarettes per day, cause their children under five to have nicotine and other cancer causing chemicals in their bloodstream. (Buhle).
             Blood tests showed that children with mothers who did not smoke and were not around any other regular smokers in the household had mean level of PAHs(polyaromatic hydrocarbons, implicated in causing cancer) of 0.15 femotoles/microgram. Children of mothers who did not smoke, but were sometimes around another regular smoker in the household had a mean level of 0.18. Children around mothers who smoked had a mean level of 0.35. The mothers were light smokers, averaging 10 cigarettes a day and none smoked as much as a pack a day.(Buhle).
             The original purpose of this study was to identify markers in children's blood to be used to gauge the amount of smoke to which the children had been exposed. It is thought that this data will be useful later in long-term studies to see what dose of passive or second-hand smoke causes cancer in later life.(Perera).
             Another study conducted by Ellis J. Nuefeld,M.d.,Ph.D., and his colleagues at Boston Children's Hospital, found that passive smoke can lower levels of the "good" cholesterol HDL. The .
             children in the study were already at high risk because of high cholesterol, family history of heart disease or low HDL. The .
             study included 103 children ranging in ages from two to eighteen. Twenty-seven percent of the children came from homes where someone smoked. Those exposed to tobacco smoke averaged ten percent lower levels of HDL in their bloodstreams.(Doctor's Guide) .
             In June of 1994 a report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Fontham) that analyzed data from 653 women with confirmed lung cancer and 1253 randomly selected female controls.


Essays Related to Second Hand Smoke Is Killing Our Children

1. Is it Acceptable to Smoke in Public Places?

... that should be encouraged because of the hazards surrounding it. It can literally ruin your life within months of starting to use tobacco products. Another thing people always say is that if it is killing them, it should not bother other people. But we are always concerned about others, and would not want a constant loss of life due to a nasty habit. Even if ... their pregnancy tend to have low birth weight babies 9.4% of the time. That is compared to the 5.7% of nonsmokers who have low birth weight children; that means it's almost 4% higher when women smoke. Besides low birth weight, s...

  • Word Count: 4462
  • Approx Pages: 18
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Making America a Smoke-Free Zone

... leading to death. Pretty much smoking cigarettes causes a number of health problems which are very expensive. It's even killing those who don't smoke, which is known as second hand smoke. Most people didn't know this but smoking while you're pregnant is a terrible idea. Smoking either during and after pregnancy is a risk factor of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It causes so much risk to the baby. It ... society. The government seems to follow what Rawl believes in and is giving justice to those who need it. Another thing is that, Louis Hartz argued that American is too young of a ...

  • Word Count: 1373
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Is Macbeth Guilty

... not be able to sleep and he will never rest in peace. " If thou be'st slain and with no stroke Of mine, my wife and children ghosts will Haunt me still"(V, I, l.20-22) Revenge was the only thing that Macduff had on his mind. He could not rest in peace if ... "Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold!'" This vividly illustrates the imagery used in MACBETH and is interpreted to mean that night equals evil, as does Hell ... business." (I, vii, 32) In the s...

  • Word Count: 12917
  • Approx Pages: 52
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Our Life Today

... avoid different health problems we can enjoy orthopedic chairs, keyboards and some other of professional equipment, smoke-free environments. New technology has raised productivity growth and it has also improved the quality of jobs ... to employees a big variety of facilities and solve space problems. But on the other hand air circulation in all (!) of them is bad (it causes inhalation disorders) and artificial lighting badly affects people's working abilities. The ... society with highly equal skills. It developed in Europe in response to social democratic vision, recover from the Second...

  • Word Count: 4257
  • Approx Pages: 17
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Look At Our Life Today

... avoid different health problems we can enjoy orthopedic chairs, keyboards and some other of professional equipment, smoke-free environments. New technology has raised productivity growth and it has also improved the quality of jobs ... to employees a big variety of facilities and solve space problems. But on the other hand air circulation in all (!) of them is bad (it causes inhalation disorders) and artificial lighting badly affects people's working abilities. The ... society with highly equal skills. It developed in Europe in response to social democratic vision, recover from the Second...

  • Word Count: 4257
  • Approx Pages: 17
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

6. Look at our life today; look how it has changed

... avoid different health problems we can enjoy orthopedic chairs, keyboards and some other of professional equipment, smoke-free environments. New technology has raised productivity growth and it has also improved the quality of jobs ... to employees a big variety of facilities and solve space problems. But on the other hand air circulation in all (!) of them is bad (it causes inhalation disorders) and artificial lighting badly affects people's working abilities. The ... society with highly equal skills. It developed in Europe in response to social democratic vision, recover from the Second...

  • Word Count: 4257
  • Approx Pages: 17
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Smoking

... that can be prevented by eliminating the usage of tobacco. Over 80% of all 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. ... . (http://asthma.nationaljewish.org). In the U.S. there is an estimated 300,000 children each year, which develop respiratory tract infections. (http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_14.htm). There have been many studies that have s...

  • Word Count: 1318
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Smoking Ban

... where they can smoke. The fact of the matter is that every time an individual decides to light up a cigarette they are not only slowly but surely killing themselves but they are also killing anyone that is within the distance of inhaling their smoke. Second hand smoke affects anyone and everyone that is near our around the smoker. ... The majority of the effects that second hand smoking, including lung cancer and many other respiratory aliments are to those who don't understand what smoking is kids. A study done by Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada say that almost 20% of children ... u...

  • Word Count: 932
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Glory

... he does not quite know where he is going. Behind him is a blonde haired gentleman smoking a cigar. He appears to be more relaxed and one gets a sense that this man is a nonconformist. Next we get our first glimpse at "the enemy-. The ... 's optimism begin to falter. He covers his head as dirt from the nearby cannon ball shower him and his troops, killing many around them. He looks back to his troops and yells "Steady!- as he takes an uncertain step forward. We ... war. As they arrive at their destination, Darien, Ga. they enter a small town that has a few women and children running thr...

  • Word Count: 10902
  • Approx Pages: 44
  • Grade Level: High School

Got a writing question? Ask our professional writer!
Submit My Question