...Does it makes sense to sell tobacco in a pharmacy that promotes a healthy lifestyle? Most people would say no. In 2014, CVS Pharmacy announced to stop the sales of any tobacco related products. Focusing more on getting people to quit rather than starting. CVS pharmacy one of the top leading pharmacies wants to set an example for other pharmacies. Would consumers want their child to picking up prescriptions and turn around to see the same pharmacy selling tobacco? Smoking is the leading cause of deaths in the US. “Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is about one in five deaths.” (CDC, 2014) Pharmacies around the United States should ban tobacco because of the negative side effects it can do one’s body, but also by banning tobacco at the local pharmacies will bring attention to why smoking is bad for the health. Health before wealth. It’s safe to say any company will do anything to raise sales, even sell tobacco while promoting a healthy lifestyle. CVS pharmacy raked in about $2 billion dollars annually from tobacco sales. In addition, the company revenue rose up to 9.7%. At least, this didn’t have a negative impact on the pharmacy sales. On the other hand, the front store did feel a little bit of change in the sales, but in overall the no tobacco in stores helped the company. With 900 walk-in clinics most CVS pharmacies offer quick easy clinics. “More than 70-90% of smokers who try to quit will relapse into regular tobacco...
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...about”How to Protect the Environment” First of all, each one of us can start by not littering. We should throw our rubbish into the rubbish bin instead of anywhere we like. Once I went strolling at a park nearby my house but was dissapointed at the sight of rubbish.I saw many empty cans and plastic wrappers lying around.They do not only spoil the beautiful park but they are the best breeding place for aedes mosquitoes. Another way of protecting our environment is by keeping our rivers clean. We can play our role by not throwing rubbish into the rivers. Meanwhile the factories can stop dumping their toxic waste into them. Plastic wrappers which made up 80 percent of the rubbish can endanger the fish and other aquatic lives while toxic waste can kill them. We, human will consequently suffer as we rely on the rivers for food and water. Moreover, farmers should avoid open burning in their farming practice because it polutes the air.Open burning can lead to haze which contains poisonous gases such as carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. These gases can cause many serious diseases. Children who breathe the polluted air may suffer from asthma and some people may even suffer from rashes and eye-diseases. Finally, we can practice the 3R; Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. Every household should aim at reducing the amount of rubbish thrown.To achieve this aim ,each member of the household can refuse plastic carriers when he goes shopping.He can bring a recyclable carrier or a special shopping...
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...Smoking and why it is bad Have you ever smoked a cigarette in your life before? Many people think that smoking can help you when you are sad but all smoking does is hurts your heart and lungs to the point that they die. Cigarettes are killing people because people are getting addicted to them, I think smoking should be illegal in all states across the U.S.A, Smoking is killing people by second hand smoking, addiction, and disease. Smoking is bad for you because once you have that first cigarette it is very hard to stop, Smoking can also make you lose your sense of smell, And when you smoke it can affect the people around you. Smoking is causing a lot of people get diseases and people may not be aware of what you can get if your smoking gets to bad. Cigarettes are causing more than 480,000 a year in the U.S.A. 1 People in the U.S are dying of tobacco related problems every year.Smoking can cause cancer almost everywhere in your body. 2 When you smoke things go into your body and can cause cancer in many places. Smoking can cause you to lose your sense of smell. 3 Smoking can give you nerve damage and the nerve damage hurts your sense of smell. Smoking causes many bad diseases like cancer and if you're smoking you can lose certain things....
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...The rhetorical situation Rhetorical problem: The rates of cigarette smoking among high school students in America are higher than those of adults. Teens are easy targets for the tobacco industry. Having cancer may not seem like real concerns, teens don’t think much about future health outcomes. Purpose: The purpose is to engage and convince high school students to stop smoking. A change in the young peoples attitude and action could help them minimize their chance of getting cancer. Audience: The audience is a group of young people, 17-18 years old, from an American high school class. The speaker: I am a young representative of “American Cancer Society”. Recently done a “stop smoking” campaign. They know who I am because they asked me to come so they must acknowledge my competences. Circumstances: The setting is in a classroom in an American high school – around 35 people present. There will be used a PowerPoint show to visualize the main points and capture the young audience’s attention. Language: The speech is in an informative tone (direct) because of the young audience. The main speech act is the expressive speech act and the main appeal form is pathos because of the purpose to engage them. Structure Introduction: I am an expressive speaker and I will introduce my education, campaign and experience (ethos). Acknowledge the fact that they asked me to come (expressives), thank them and underline the importance of them focusing on this topic for their own...
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...Self help book to quit smoking Nicotine is one of the most addictive, harmful and widely available legal drugs in the world. Smoking is a bad habit and is harmful to people who don't smoke. It harms children who are exposed to it passively. Cigarettes are responsible for around 4.9 million deaths each year. Quitting smoking is not impossible. Smoking tobacco is both a physical addiction and a psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary and addictive high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Managing unpleasant feelings such as stress, depression, loneliness, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common reasons why people smoke. When you have a bad day, it can seem like cigarettes are your only friend. As much comfort as cigarettes provide, it's important to remember that there are healthier, more effective ways to keep unpleasant feelings in check. These may include exercising, meditating, using sensory relaxation strategies, and practicing simple breathing exercises. At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break from work or school or during your commute home at the end of a long day. Perhaps friends, family members, and colleagues smoke and it has become part of the way you relate with them. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of the Anti-Smoking Advertisements Joshua Martinez DeVry University ENG-112-64585 Anti-smoking advertisements occasionally pop up throughout our society which is often showing the viewers the harmful effects of tobacco through startling images. This advertisement uses the elements of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to make people rethink about smoking. The video advertisement uses children to make a point across by showing real scenarios on the effects of smoking. It shows that the commonplace for smoking, in today’s time, is acceptable for teenagers to smoke and jump to an assumption that children are starting to try it. Once the children are introduced into this advertisement pathos is also introduced. It shows that the innocent can be tainted with smoking and brings in fear to the audience. Ethos falls into play when the children are appealing to the adults that they want a lighter to smoke. Children are viewed as innocent and when a child wants to do something that destroys that innocence, adults, try to stop it. We tend to believe people whom we respect. One of the central problems of this advertisement was the children asking the adult for a cigarette which created the audience something that is worth seeing. When the kids asked for a lighter, pathos gets involved as the adults asks the children if they are being serious and refuses to give them one. The adults then respond with various reasons why smoking cigarettes is unhealthy...
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...Emphysema is that the walls between the air sacs are damaged, causing them to lose their shape and become soft. The damage also can destroy the walls of the air sacs, leading to fewer and larger air sacs instead of many tiny ones. When this happens, the amount of gas exchange in the lungs is reduced; also the gas will built up into your body which can hurt the rest of the body at the same time. Chronic bronchitis is the lining of the airways is constantly irritated and inflamed. This causes the lining to thicken. When a lot of thick mucus forms in the airways, it makes it hard to breathe. COPD is the most leading cause of death in the USA. Over 12 million people are diagnosed with COPD; many more people may have the disease and not even know it until it is too late. There is no cure for COPD, there are treatments that can help with it, but to find the right that works is hard to find, you can live with this for year but you will die from this. Most the info that is out there, you can find out on the web, doctor or just watching TV, you can find a lot of good info on the web about the signs and other thing about COPD, like what treatment that are out and what their side of effects...
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...Argumentative Research Paper Why One Should Not Smoke by Rashege V. Johnson-Manley Submitted for Portfolio Requirement in ENG 102 (51) April 28, 2009 Argumentative Paper Outline Title of Paper: Why Should One Not Smoke Thesis Statement: There are different reasons as to why one should not smoke. I. Introduction: There are different reasons as to why one should not smoke. ll. Socialization: Being part of a group lll. Second hand smoke Health lV. Conclusion: I challenge you to stop smoking. Statement of purpose: To argue why one should not smoke. There are different reasons as to why one should not smoke; because people are different some people do choose to smoke. One may smoke because smoking can make one feel as though he/she is a part of a particular group. Smoking can give a relaxing feeling, thus, smoking can make one feel good, according to some smokers. If one already smokes and his/her smoking is out of control, he/she just might not be able to quit smoking without a very strong desire to quit, an extremely good support system and serious education as to the disadvantages of smoking. So, they are some of the reasons why some people smoke. Now, let’s consider why one should not Smoke, which is without a doubt much more serious. Smoking can be a hinder to us for...
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...be addressed through health promotion, using research finding from different. Smoking addressed using health risk advice Health-risk advice has been used in different ways to encourage people to stop smoking. We can ask advice from health professionals that can go to a school and inform young teens the harmful effects about smoking and the long-term effect on smoking which can decrease the quality of life in the future. Or use shock tactics to show the children what can happen if they are smoking and show the effect that it has inside and outside of the body. This can be addressed to secondary children as they are getting into the phase of trying new...
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...Getting Them to Quit By Hitting Them Where It Hurts What is the best way to get people to stop smoking? Is it to tell them all of the health dangers that are associated with smoking? Would they stop if they knew that secondhand smoke from those same cigarettes is even more deadly than the smoke they inhale? What about limiting or even taking away their freedom to partake in the habit that they so enjoy? No these options only tend to make the smoker envious or resentful. The best way to stop people from smoking is by raising the price of cigarettes. While some may argue that increase cigarette prices do not have an affect on tobacco addiction because it so strong; "research as shown that increased prices reduce the number of smokers and deaths related to smoking." High prices also stop former smoker from returning to the habit. Present smokers consume less because of high prices and even consider quitting. Low income smokers are most affected by high prices, taking a higher percentage of their disposable income, giving them more of a reason to lesson consumption or even quit. Some may say that with an increase in price consumers will switch to a cheaper brand and lessen the effect. This is a concern, but not all consumers take part in this behavior. Many have a brand that they will always smoke no matter what the price. However, those that do stick to one brand will be discouraged by the high price. Still there are others that will not quit because of price. Others will...
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...seen to follow directly from different goals. I am twenty two years old, over the last seven years of my life I have developed a nasty habit of smoking cigarettes. I have realized the fact that I am a true smoker when I started working at the age of sixteen, this only helped me develop my habit even worse when I started stressing about work at such an early age. I usually don’t like to point fingers and play the blame game over my own habits but I did have important role models in my life that influenced me on smoking cigarettes. These role models just so happen to be my two older brothers and both of my parents. It is really not their fault for my habit because every individual in life makes their own decisions. Not only my immediate family smokes but also my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. I would have to say this habit of smoking cigarettes has been a huge habit for my whole family tree, or at least since the early nineteen hundreds. I would also have to say that my two older brothers were my biggest influences on me developing the habit of smoking. I have tried several times to quit smoking but the urge to smoke a cigarette gets the best of me simply because I look at a cigarette as a stress reliever, or basically blowing off some steam. I continue to smoke because not smoking helps me create ideas...
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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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...Teens smoke for many reasons and often for the same reasons as adults do: to cope with stress, to control their weight, as a social habit and to combat boredom. One of the biggest reasons teens start to smoke is peer influence: smoker’s friends do it. Studies show that this is especially true for girls. There's clear evidence that tobacco companies target children in their marketing. Some of the most effective are sports sponsorships - for example, boys are twice as likely to smoke if they follow car racing. Movies too: the more kids see their favorite movie stars smoking on the screen, the more likely they'll try it themselves. Some researchers think that tobacco advertising carries even more weight than peer influence. Teenagers usually smoke cigarettes because they are seeking the answer to try to be "cool" or try to be "adult". Sometimes, teens see their parents smoking and want to do it. This is a major problem because they want to be like their parents and sense they are adults, teens also want to feel like adults. A lot of adults and teens have depression and when they feel sad, smokers find cigarettes to "help" them go through their sadness. Not all people with depression smoke though. Take homeless people as an example. Smokers want to forget about their troubles and smoke weed or get drunk because homeless people think that getting high or drunk will make them happier. Sometimes, teens see their friends do it. Smoker’s friends are cool to them. Then teens will attempt to...
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...Why Quit Smoking? You can reduce your risks. Smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Smokers have a higher risk of developing many chronic disorders, including atherosclerosis — the buildup of fatty substances in the arteries — which can lead to coronary heart disease, heart attack (myocardial infarction) and stroke. Controlling or reversing atherosclerosis is an important part of preventing future heart attack or stroke You can modify or control six major independent risk factors for coronary heart disease: • • • • • • Cigarette and tobacco smoke High blood cholesterol High blood pressure Physical inactivity Overweight or obesity Diabetes Smoking by itself increases the risk of coronary heart disease. When it acts with the other factors, it greatly increases your risk from those factors, too. Smoking decreases your tolerance for physical activity and increases the tendency for blood to clot. It decreases HDL (good) cholesterol. Your risks increase greatly if you smoke and have a family history of heart disease. Smoking also creates a higher risk for peripheral artery disease and aortic aneurysm. It increases the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease after bypass surgery, too. Smoking is also an important risk factor for stroke. Inhaling cigarette smoke produces several effects that damage the cerebrovascular system. Women who take oral contraceptives and smoke increase their risk of stroke many times. Cigars and pipes aren't...
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... What I Already Know “You don't have to be a smoker for smoking to harm you.” This was my first introduction to secondhand smoking when my teacher in high school told me once about the topic. As I was listening, I was astonished when I heard the health problems I will get from breathing in other people's smoke. It is said that non-smokers who breathe in secondhand smoke take in nicotine and other toxic chemicals just like smokers do. It’s surprisingly unbelievable, that the health risks I would get from secondhand smoke are the same with the actual smokers. Some say it’s even harmful for the secondhand smokers than the actual ones. Smokers are everywhere. Indeed, I have friends who smoke. Everytime I'm with them, I want to tell them to stop smoking since I know it's not only their health that are being put at risk. They told me it's hard to stop smoking once you've started doing it. I'm bit curious about their answers. Is it that hard? I wonder if they care about the people around them who's affected by their wrongdoings. And as a non smoker, I’ve been exposed to other people’s cigarette smoke at many times. I feel a little of anger to smokers because I can still remember the words of my teacher. Knowing that my health is at risk just because of other people wrongdoings is alarming. As I want myself to stop them to smoke, I just can’t. It’s ironic how I seem to be ashamed to ask smokers to stop smoking in front of me, when in fact it is my health that is being put...
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