...John Renteria Mrs. Faulkner Communications Cluster 29 April 2014 The Smoking Gun The number of crusades against cigarette smoking has never been higher. Everywhere you look there are billboards, television ads, and magazine ads all preaching the dangers of smoking. Quitting is much harder than it sounds, there is a real physical addiction that must be overcome, not to mention the psychological aspects accompanied with the addiction. Nowadays, it is hard to be unaware of the health risks involved with smoking; however some of the other damaging factors smokers might not take into account for are the permeating smells and stains cigarette smoke produce and the financial burden of keeping up the addiction. The biggest and most well known effect of smoking is the health risks it poses. There is a huge amount of health problems directly associated with smoking: lung cancer, throat cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and pregnancy complications are just a few examples. Smoking also causes a person’s immune system to be weakened, leaving them susceptible to illness. The health risks are not exclusive to the tobacco user; families of the user have to deal with the psychological impact of caring for a person afflicted with one of these health conditions. Second hand smoke can affect people within the proximity of a smoker, and even cause some of the same health complications experienced by a smoker. The cost of hospitalization and increased health care premiums are also factors...
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...Rowan EN1420 February 25, 2016 Project pt 2 Do you hate the smell of cigarette smoke and would like to see it banned? In my opinion, I believe that cigarette smoking should be banned. Many people will say that it should and shouldn’t for many different reasons. According to Debate.org, 80% said it should be banned and 20% says that it shouldn’t be banned. Also according to Robert N. Proctor, he wrote “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case of abolition.” He states that cigarettes are the deadliest artefact in human civilization. Do you think cigarette smoking should be banned? Each year 6 million people die alone from smoking cigarettes. Death and product defect are two reasons to abolish the sales of cigarettes. Each year, more and more wild fires are caused by cigarette butts from people. Smoking cigarettes is the number one cause of lung cancer therefore deaths, lung cancer is almost entirely due to the use of low pH flue-cured tobacco in cigarettes. I believe smoking cigarettes should be banned because everyone wants to live a long healthy life, and since lung cancer is the number one cause of death that means if you are an organ donner, then when you die, nobody will be able to use a lung if need be because it turned out to be a bad lung. The purpose of this article is about hoe cigarettes should be banned and why. Cigarette smoking has corrupted media that’s very popular, newspapers, and also magazines. Instead of learning new things in a newspaper or talking...
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...“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.” –Matthew Gray Gubler. About 20 percent of Americans population smoke cigarettes. There has been reports of the Heart Association that tobacco smoking has caused more than 440,000 death each year that can be preventable. People have a hard time understanding of why smoking is so dangerous, so they choose to ignore the fact that it can cause a death and continue smoking. People choose to smoke for many reasons. For example, people feel alone...
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...The smoking ban Text 1: The author of this text is focusing on the benefits around the smoking ban. We are told about the smoking ban, which took effect on the day he wrote the text. He is claiming that the ban will have a huge meaning to people’s health I general. He takes out examples to confirm his proclamation, in form of countries were a smoking ban has taken effect already. The number of dominating illnesses like heart attacks and cancer fell by several per cent in all of the areas where the smoking ban took function. Robin McKie makes a list over the affected public places, which will be affected by the smoking ban. If you smoke in public, it will be considered illegal, you’ll get a ticket. If an owner of a bar allows customers to smoke in his place, he’ll have to pay for it as well, and it will not just be a few pennies, but £2,500. We are told that around every fourth of the adult British population is a smoker. Almost half of all these smokers are actively trying to stop, and an even bigger part says that they want to stop smoking. He puts a notice on how the smoking ban will affect everyone – not just smokers. The part of the population, which doesn’t smoke them selves are facing increased risks of getting a savvier disease. So the beneficial affect the ban will have on the health will be for everyone in Britain. Mckie ends his text by writing about the places where you are still aloud to smoke. It must be outside, so refers to a joke, said by Will Self about...
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...amongst ______ students to get their insights on smoking and also their personal experiences with it. We divided the questionnaire for smokers and non-smokers. We managed to get a total of 50 participants in which 60% were non-smokers and 40% were smokers. The questions regarding smoking facts were answered by both sides. Both smokers and non-smokers seem to have just a slight understanding on what smoking really does to the body and to those around them. Based on the findings, we recommend that students be exposed to the real dangers of smoking. We suggest exhibitions, competitions, talks or maybe even a health class. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS-----------------------------------------------------vi EXECUTIVE SUMMARY-------------------------------------------------------vii I. INTRODUCTION-------------------------------------------------------1 Background Statement of the Problem Purpose of the Study Scope II. RELATED LITERATURE-------------------------------------------- III. PROCEDURES--------------------------------------------------------- IV. FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS---------------------------------------- V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS----------------- REFERENCES LIST------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX—SURVEY INSTRUMENT------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TABLES 1. EFFECTS THAT ARE CAUSED BY SMOKING------------------------------- 2. MEDIA...
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...whenever you find the strength to quit. Unfortunately most people who smoke do not have the strength to quit, and smoking becomes part of the daily routine. Smoking goes to just something you tried once with your friends, to the never ending battle with addiction. 5.5% of 8th graders smoke daily. Some questions that I ask myself are how do teens get away with smoking when it is illegal? Do they get cigarettes from their peers, or even parents? Can teens get the help they need to quit? My opinion is that schools should have a program to better educate students on the effects of smoking, and the risks involved. Teens can be influenced to start smoking by pressure or imitation of their peers, friends or even family. Also, teens are prompted to use cigarettes if they see someone they look up to smoking in a movie, or a TV show. Teens also start smoking out of frustration or anger, they use the cigarettes to patch up the holes in their lives, the trouble in school, or the lack of support from families and friends. Use of tobacco can also lead to using other drugs and underage drinking. The majority of teens who smoke will have trouble in school, cut class, and fall behind with school activities, simply because it is no longer their main interest. Their main interest is now smoking, and finding a way to get cigarettes for the next time they decide to smoke. My opinion is that all teens should be better educated about the risks of using tobacco. Not just teens that are using tobacco...
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...Smoking Ban – Studentereksamen maj 2008 1) Give an outline of the different positions on the smoking ban which are presented in the texts. 2) Comment on the use of exaggeration and irony in text 3. Illustrate your answer with quotations from the text. 3) Discuss whether society has a responsibility to prevent people from smoking or whether it is up to the individual to decide. 1) The smoking ban contains different kinds of restrictions, which results in; it will be illegal to smoke at public places or work places. Penalties have been implemented to make the British people follow the new rules. The first article written by Robin Mckie, a science editor on The Observer has a very positive view on the smoking ban, which came into force in England in the year of 2007. Mckie uses a lot of examples from the real world to support his opinion. He mentions among other things Helena, Montana, where the number of heart attacks fell by 40 per cent in the six-month smoking ban. Mckie hopes it will motivate the smokers to quit the bad habit. It will also benefit the non-smokers because it minimizes the risk of getting lung cancer or heart diseases. The second article written by A. N. Wilson has a very different point of view on the smoking ban. He combines smoking with literature, and writes that the greatest writers of our time were smokers. He believes that a lot of their inspiration came, while they were lighting a cigarette, and he is afraid that the new ban will...
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...the struggle to avoid or cut back on the frequency of smoking should be mindful of the younger age groups. Moreover, identifying the factors of smoking beginning in the youth is essential to accomplishing in tobacco regulations and prevention measures. As it states in the article it is a research article involved cross-sectional study was demonstrated on 451 females and 361 males aging 20-25 years old; within two the Universities of Isfahan and Kashan in Iran within the year of 2007. Demographic elements were age, gender, and age; smoking either cigarettes or hookah smoking status. Having a smoking family members or smoking friends were all recorded. Dual study was used to individually control relations between hookah and cigarette smoking and the four social norm variables (Roohafza et al., 2013). The summary of what I learned from the content of the article is 71% of the students’ nonsmokers, 9.5% smoked cigarette and 19.5% smoked hookah. At least 50% of hookah smokers and roughly 40% of cigarette smokers were social smokers. Additionally, cigarette and hookah smokers and nonsmokers were drastically different in the results. Out of the cigarette users, 75.3% thought that smoking cigarettes creates a better social setting. 88.4% of hookah users had similar opinions. Instead, 72.7% of cigarette users and 76.3% of hookah users assumed that grown-ups dislike adolescence of smoking. Anti-smoking campaigns were...
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...Effects of Smoking and Pregnancy William Franklin Stewart Marshall University January 19, 2010 Thesis Statement Smoking during pregnancy is associated with many adverse outcomes for children as well as negative consequences for child health and development. Maternal smoking late in pregnancy reduces birth weight and size. Babies that are born to habitual smokers "weigh, on average, about 9 oz. less, and are shorter both at birth and in the years to come" (Berger 115). Nicotine is the addictive ingredient in cigarettes and breaking that habit can be nearly impossible for some women. What is the acceptable way for her to stop smoking? It's my opinion a woman needs to gather all of the information she can and then discuss her options with her doctor. Only she and the doctor can know how her body reacts to certain medications and to nicotine withdrawal. Discussed in this paper are some of the issues facing the mother and child. Effects of Smoking and Pregnancy Quitting Smoking First and foremost, a woman should quit smoking if she is thinking about becoming pregnant. Quitting will help produce a baby that will be of the same birth weight of a baby born of a woman who has never smoked. Doctors have different opinions to the correct way to quit. Some favor quitting cold turkey, stepping down gradually, taking prescription drugs such as Zyban and Chantix. Both of these need a prescription in most cases and both can have serious side effects as well. Wearing patches...
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...has to look out of the consumers that are not looking out for themselves. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013, there were 42.1 million people in the United States that smoked cigarettes. Smoking causes many diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Smoking is considered to be the leading cause of preventable deaths in the US. It is responsible for about 480,000 deaths, including 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke. According to the CDC, the United States spends $300 billion a year on smoking-related costs to include medical care, lost productivity, and premature deaths. By now we are all well aware of the harmful effects that smoking and other use of tobacco products have on use, but according to the CDC 3,200 people under the age of 18 smoked their first cigarette today. Choosing to smoke is a personal choose that affects many. If an employer is required to pay a higher insurance premium for those employees that smoke, who should be required to pay? Who should be responsible for children that develop respiratory problems such as bronchitis or pneumonia from secondhand smoke? With so many people affected by smoking I think it is well with the right an employer and even the government to regulate its use, or even penalize those who make the choice to smoke. With all the...
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...All of our group members have congruent opinions on WEYCO’s tobacco-free policy. Ethical values took precedence in our group discussion; collectively, we believe that WEYCO’s tobacco-free policy was an appropriate decision. This policy benefited the company with increased economic prosperity (by lowering health care costs and minimizing productivity losses due to smoking related issues), in addition to creating a healthier workforce. Furthermore, all the group members are impressed by WEYCO’s commitment and sustained efforts to implement this policy by offering both voluntary and involuntary programs. Employment is not an entitlement, and the company has a right to base employment on reasonable restrictions. The company’s restrictions on individual freedoms should be equitable and have rational purposes. In this case, the “no smoking” policy is a justified restriction because, apart from the economic burden on the company, smoking is detrimental to the general health of the employees, both by active and passive smoking. We also think that WEYCO should include a gene testing program in this policy to screen for individuals whose resistances make them less likely to achieve abstinence and have higher relapse rates due to their genetic makeup (they have the gene form that decreases activity of an enzyme that metabolizes nicotine). These individuals should be given additional resources and time to quit smoking, and their efforts should be monitored. This step is reasonable because...
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...The overall purpose of the article is to gain a better understanding behind the attitudes and personal opinions of having a smoke-free campus. It continues to go into more specific depth regarding a smoke-free campus such as the most effective way to initiate and retain a smoke-free campus. Within this pool of knowledge, it will show some of the main reasoning behind why people that smoke want to keep a campus from becoming smoke-free and will also show people urges behind wanting a campus to become smoke-free. This will give two fully biased views from both complete opposites (a smoke-free campus versus a smoking campus.) Some of the bigger issues that Cho and DeVaney wanted to evaluate the motives behind the college students. This includes the variety of thinking and learning methods, reasons behind their actions, and meanings that give the students their urges towards these actions. By doing so, it will assist in understanding the motives, attitudes, and urges on a deeper level by evaluating “why” they want what they want, and “why” they did what they did. Another issue that the authors wanted to acknowledge is the college students’ reactions as well as their actions. They wanted to understand how the students would react to a change in the smoking policy at their college and what they would do to fix it if they did not like it or how they would help enforce the policy if they did like it. Cho and DeVaney conducted their research in two types of methods: field observation...
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...Smoking Ban Debates History and Debate of Smoking Ban A smoking ban is a public policy that includes criminal laws and health regulations that prohibit smoking in certain public places and workspaces. There are varying definitions of smoking employed in this legislation. The strictest definitions define smoking as being the inhalation of any tobacco substance while the loosest define smoking as possessing any lit tobacco product. There are many reasons why smoking bans originated, but most of these have medical origins. Research has shown secondhand smoke is almost as harmful as smoking in and of itself. The effects of secondhand smoke are relatively the same as smoking. Lung disease, heart disease, bronchitis and asthma are common. Those who live in homes with smokers have a 20-30 percent higher risk of developing lung cancer than those who do not live with a smoker. Many see it as unfair that others have to suffer the effects of secondhand smoke when they are not able to make the decision for exposur to it. Non-smokers who worked with smokers experienced a 16-19 percent increase in lung cancer rates. In this case, the worker had no choice but to face exposure to the smoke. Smoking bans remove these risks for many people. The National Cancer Institute, Surgeon General of the United States and National Institutes of Health all support smoking bans because of the statistics of second-hand smoke. Smoking bans are also imposed because they improve air quality in restaurants and...
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...2011). Cigarette smoking in public places is a widely controversial topic. Many people are unaware of the actual history of smoking bans. People are also unaware who is affected by smoking regulation in public places, the effects on society, why it is important to solve the problem of cigarette smoking in public places in concern to regulation, and possible solutions that are out in the world to help solve this problem. The first known smoking ban occurred in 1590 and was given by Pope Urban VII during his short reign as pope. Anyone who was caught smoking or chewing tobacco near a church was excommunicated. It was not until the twentieth century that the health problems associated with tobacco use came to light in the public eye. This is the time when businesses provided smokers with their own separate locations, so they could smoke without exposing the rest of the customers to the dangers and annoyance of smoke (Reasons, pros, and cons, 2008). In the 1990s, California became the first state to issue a smoking ban, and this was in restaurants. Since that time, many cities have taken up the drive to ban cigarette smoking in public locations, particularly restaurants. In fact, recent estimates show that as many as thirty-four states have cities that have some sort of ban smoking laws (Reasons, pros, and cons, 2008). Over the past hundreds of years, smoking regulation has become a top priority for people to have a strong opinion on. Many have felt that smoking in public places...
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...` Public Smoking Bans Maria Robbins Ivy Tech Community College ENGL 111-JOF-Research Paper Cooper-3830 November 4, 2013 Abstract The smoking ban has caused smokers to adjust their smoking behavior. Public places have banned the smokers from smoking inside their businesses. The smoking ban has caused smokers to make choices. This has decreased their smoking and some have been able to quit completely. Still there are people who have smoked their whole life and have chosen not to stop smoking. Smokers do not have the freedom to smoke in public places that they once had. The public smoking ban has been the center of debates, because smokers feel it is their right to smoke when and where they want. The non-smokers want to be able to go out and enjoy a smoke-free environment. Public Smoking Bans Public smoking has been a right the smoker has had for years. Only in recent years has the public smoking ban law been put in affect. It took many years of debating over the fact if smoking in public should be ban. Smoking is an individual choice, and it is an activity that is absolutely legal. However, some states have passed laws to prohibit the activity in public and in workplaces. This legislation has been the focus of many debates in statehouses and city-county councils throughout the country. The smoking bans forces a smoker to not be welcome to smoke freely in public. For years the non-smoker had to deal with going out to...
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