...The Dangers of Smoking You find that many of your friends have taken up smoking. It is affecting their health. Write an article for your school newsletter on the dangers of smoking. Smoke that kills A smoker can easily be identified in any group. Not only does he reek of stale smoke, he also has bad breath, much to the dread of non-smokers. However, the effects of smoking are far more insidious than the offensive smell associated with smokers. Cigarette smoke contains many toxic substances like carbon monoxide, nicotine and carcinogens that not only cause irreparable damage to the smoker, but also to those around him who inhale the smoke. Carbon monoxide reduces blood capacity to carry oxygen, thus causing fatigue and panting even with the slightest physical exertion. The lack of oxygen in the body acts as a catalyst that accelerates the aging process, causing wrinkles. Nicotine contained in cigarette smoke reduces the activity of the brain and nervous system. It also raises the risk of high blood pressure. Nicotine causes the contraction of blood vessels and decrease of blood supply. This ultimately leads to heart attacks. Smokers are at a higher risk of developing certain kinds of cancers because cigarette smoke contains carcinogens. Long-time smokers often develop cancers of the mouth, larynx and lungs. Smoking not only endangers the smoker himself but also those who inhale secondary smoke -- smoke exhaled y smokers. In view of the many dangers of smoking...
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...The Dangers of Smoking Helan Baugh 4/28/2013 That anyone in his right mind would want to start smoking is beyond my ability to comprehend; what with the plethora of evidence of its very adverse effects both medically and economically. Smoking is deceptive to the smoker. Most smokers are not aware that a single cigarette contains up to four thousand (4000) separate chemicals, many of which are extremely toxic! The lungs allow nicotine to pass into the bloodstream almost as soon as it is ingested, giving the smoker an estatic sensation. This can lead to addiction. Nicotine is an highly addictive drug. As a consequence, hundreds of thousands die each year across the globe from the effects of smoking. A smoker's likelihood of dying from a heart attack or other heart diseases like bronchitis or emphysema is almost twice that of a non-smoker's! Smoking also contributes to high blood pressure, gall-bladder problems, and infertility. In male smokers, the risk of lung cancer is increased by twenty-three times while in female smokers the risk is increased thirteen times. Non-smokers also face significant risks from working in smokey environments, and children who are exposed to second-hand smoke are more likely to suffer from asthma and other respiratory illnesses. As regards economics, the smoker, though it is his right so to do, burns his money while creating an economic burden for society. This is evidenced by the increasing cost of healthcare. No one (except the...
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...Angela Simmons Thinking and Doing Ethics PHI-210RS-CL05 Instructor: Justin Wisniewski September 26, 2015 Written Case Analysis 4 In the particular case presented, Case 4 the parties “involved are a Superior Court judge, a father, his 5-year-old son, and the mother of the child.” (Ruggiero 171) The moral issue is second-hand being a danger to the child in question; and the fact that the judge has ordered the mother to stop smoking around her child. People know the dangers of second-hand smoke and how harmful it can be your child’s health, or anyone’s health for that matter. When “the judge ordered the woman to stop smoking around her child, his judgement corresponds with the natural value that we have a moral obligation to care for ourselves and others. Also, we are prohibited from acting in ways that could harm innocent persons.” (Burnor 182) Based on the judge’s decision, “negative rights,” he made a claim against the mother that she should not be smoking around her child.” (Burnor 196) So he is deterring the child from second-hand smoke and making sure he is protected. Now the mother must practice “positive rights” (Burnor 195) to ensure that she does what is morally right to make sure the health and well-being of he son are of utmost importance. Also, the father can be more at ease knowing his son is free from second-hand smoke. Because of the judgement against the woman, she can accuse the judge and possibly her child’s father of violating her “human rights.” (Burnor...
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...SMOKING BAN? As the years go by and society changes new laws surface to protect us from harm. Or do they? The laws today compared to the laws from decades ago have morphed and changed dramatically; some for the good and others for the worse. For example, in today’s day and age it is hard to discipline children and give a little tough love when they misbehave in public places. If a parent is caught in the act of spanking their child due to disciplinary reasons the parent can be fined, jailed, or even worse, have social services called on the parent or parents and have their children stripped from them. There is a major difference between abuse and a subtle smack on the wrist or behind and most parents understand the difference. Twenty years ago seeing a child get their behind busted would of been no big deal. Today’s new laws seem to be all or nothing in the aspect that there are hardly few reasonable limitations and boundaries. These new laws may be about protecting our safety and well-being, but if we look behind the curtain some of these new laws are starting to represent how far the state and or federal government will go to the extent of controlling how Americans should live. A state wide law that seems to be becoming popular in the United States this past couple decades is the smoking ban. Over half of the United States contains these laws and the 100% smoking ban law prohibits smokers from smoking in any enclosed establishment as well as some outdoor establishments...
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...Zahid Naeem, Second-hand Smoke – Ignored Implications, targets an audience of parents and current smokers. The purpose of his article is to inform the audience of the dangers of second-hand smoke. Dr. Naeem uses multiple strategies to develop his key points within the article by effectively communicating the information to his audience. Analyzing Second-hand Smoke – Ignored Implications by Dr. Zahid Naeem Dr. Zahid Naeem’s article addresses the hazards of smoking and emphasizes the dangers of second-hand smoke. Dr. Naeem writes his article primarily to address parents of young children and current smokers by providing information in a statistical format. He quantifies the dangers that second-hand smoke poses to the physical health of those who come into contact with it. While a very informative article, one cannot overlook the slight element of persuasion used by Dr. Naeem to urge smokers, if not to quit smoking altogether, to at least be courteous to those who may be affected by second-hand smoke. Dr. Naeem’s article covering second-hand smoke can be summarized into three main ideas. The first point that Dr. Naeem articulates is the magnitude of complications that smoking and second-hand smoke can cause (Naeem, 2015, para 1). Secondly, Dr. Naeem expresses that second-hand smoke is every bit as hazardous as smoking is itself (Naeem, 2015, para 3). Lastly he describes how children are more susceptible to the possible complications of second-hand smoke than adults (Naeem, 2015,...
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...speech are vitally important when undertaking a PR campaign. This was not the case for neither Edward L. Bernay’s “Torches of Freedom” campaign nor the electronic cigarette campaign mentioned in the assignment description. In many ways, both campaigns are unethical to participate in. However, the “Torches of Freedom” campaign is much more unethical due to societies lack of knowledge of smoking’s dangers at the time and the American public’s heightened awareness and cautiousness of substance abuse dangers that came about in following centuries. Ethics of E-cigs vs. Torches of Freedom Campaign From an ethical...
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...DANGERS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE ____________________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Communication Arts II ____________________ By Julienne TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………….. II. NATURE OF SECONDHAND SMOKE…………………………………………….. III. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SECONDHAND SMOKE…………………….... A. Cotinine…………………………………………………………………………... B. Carcinogens………………………………………………………………………. 1. Carbon Monoxide……………………………………………………………… 2. Cyanide……………………………………………………………………….... IV. TYPES OF SECONDHAND SMOKE……………………………………………….. A. Mainstream Smoke………………………………………………………………… B. Sidestream Smoke…………………………………………………………………. C. Thirdhand Smoke………………………………………………………………….. V. EFFECTS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE……………………………………………. A. Cancers…………………………………………………………………………… 1. LungCancer………………………………………………………………….. 2. Breast Cancer ……………………………………………………………….. B. Effects in Cardiovascular System………………………………………………… 1. Coronary Heart Disease……………………………………………………… 2. Stroke…………………………………………………………………………. 3. Other Heart Disease………………………………………………………….. C. Effects in Respiratory System…………………………………………………….. 1. Asthma………………………………………………………………………... 2. Irritation of Respiratory Tract………………………………………………… D. Effects in Neurological System……………………………………………………. 1. Dementia………………………………………………………………………. E. Effects During Pregnancy…………………………………………………………. F. Effects to Children…………………………………………………………………...
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... * Being around smoke can interfere with the normal functioning of heart, blood and vascular system. * Leads to poor lung development (meaning that their lungs never grow to their full potential). * Studies show sudden infant death syndrome occurs in infants that are around smoke. * * Insert your second reason here. * Insert your third reason here. Secondhand smoke is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe and cigar. It contains about 4,000 chemicals. Many which are dangerous and can cause cancer. Anytime children breathe in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. Do you want your child to get an infection or possibly die? Then please stop smoking! QUIT! Keep your child away from secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe and cigar. It contains about 4,000 chemicals. Many which are dangerous and can cause cancer. Anytime children breathe in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. Do you want your...
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...The Effects of Smoking during Pregnancy Cassandra Buckner National American University Abstract There are many dangers to an unborn child that can follow them the rest of their lives from maternal smoking. Many studies and significant research shows smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of a long list of problems. Still birth is the most common complication, but placental dysfunctional, premature labor and low birth weight are also problems that can harm the fetus. Over 40% of children studied also had some form of heart defect. Exposure to cigarette smoke during pregnancy has also been linked to SIDS. Birth defects such as cleft palate and cleft lip can be caused from smoking while pregnant as well as your child being diagnosed with asthma. Speech defects as well as behavioral problems such as ADD/ADHD also play a role in maternal smoking. No one would give an infant a cigarette, so why would we while carrying our child smoke? Smoking during pregnancy can harm both the baby and the mother. Most would do anything to protect their child. Yet many women, who feel this way, continue to smoke while pregnant, insisting that the dangers are non-existent. In reality, there are many dangers to an unborn child that can follow them for the rest of their lives, if they survive gestation, and birth. Miscarriages, low birth weight, premature labor, and organ defects are just a few things that can plague the child of a smoking mother. There are many studies, and significant...
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...interests us on the dangers of smoking, and reading two articles from the monograph provided, named, “The Role of Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use,” published in Health Volume 98. From the readings, we will comment and discuss whether or not there should be policy regulating tobacco industry advertising. The article chosen for discussion is, “Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Trends in Smoking Cessation,” published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by CDC.gov, November, 2009. This article explores percentages of cigarette smoking in adults during the period from 1998 to 2008, including their demographics and characteristics. Data was gathered from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Smoking population was defined as non-institutionalized adults, eighteen years and older, who reported smoking daily; the demographics of this population were identified as smokers being predominantly male, of American Indian/Alaska Native ethnicity, followed by Black non-Hispanic and White non-Hispanic. Regarding their education, this population shows low educational attainment (GED or high school); the largest age group of twenty-five through forty-four years old was followed closely by the eighteen- through twenty-four-year-old group. The income level of the majority of smokers is found to be just below poverty levels (Dube, Asman, Malarcher, & Carabollo, 2009). Comprehensive campaigns for prevention and education on the dangers of smoking should be targeted...
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...Smoking and Pregnant COM/215 January 3, 2010 Smoking and Pregnant . Many women smoke without knowing the negative effect that smoking can have on their unborn babies during the pregnancy and after. These health complications include ectopic pregnancy, placental abruption, and increase jeopardy of the baby born in premature and low birth weight. When a pregnant women smokes her unborn baby smokes too. What this means is that the nicotine, carbon monoxide, and the other chemicals that the mother inhales with every cigarette are passing into her baby’s body. Most of the parents with children know that babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy weight less at birth than those born to nonsmokers. Low birth babies are more vulnerable to many health problems such as breathing difficulties and long- term healthy problems in adulthood. If this course is obstructed, the fetus will not receive enough oxygen to develop properly. Smoking not only exposes the baby’s fetus to poisons in tobacco smoke, but it also harms placental function. Naturally this disturbs the fetus of the baby negatively. Placental abruption is problem that occurs from smoking during pregnancy. It is a condition in which the placenta separates away from the uterine wall. This is because the breakage of the blood vessels reduces the oxygen supply to the unborn baby Cigarette smoking increases the danger of acquiring cancer of mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, lung, kidney, and urinary...
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...Factors that Influence the Development of Innovation within Large International Consumer Goods Organization Name Institution Factors that Influence the Development of Innovation within Large International Consumer Goods Organization Introduction Smoking in public should not be allowed at all. Smoking on itself is a vice that should be discouraged among the population. It should be discouraged owing to its adverse effect which putt time the people who smoke down. At times smokers die as a result of the toxicity of the substance smoked. Therefore, I oppose with strongest terms possible that smoking should be allowed in public. Smoking entails inhaling smoke from drugs like tobacco, bhang among others which are toxic and are classified as hard drugs which are a cause of very dangerous effects in the body and in the environment. The reasons people should not smoke in public are explained below. Smoking in public results in air pollution which exposes living organisms to its danger. It is evident that tobacco that is commonly smoked in cigarettes contains four thousand dangerous chemical which when breathed out by the smoker and released to the environment. The particles could find themselves settles on the leaves of the plants. As a result they particles could block the pores meant for photosynthesis or poison the plant. The plant could also absorb the particles and when fed on by the primary producers, the animals could get poisoned. It is also worth noting that the micro-organisms...
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...teenager becomes addicted to the most preventable cause of death, Smoking tobacco. Some may do it just because it seems cool, or because they want to fit in. However, they are totally unaware of the dangers of smoking tobacco because of the poor safety warnings on the back of every deadly carton. According to U.S. Senate of Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy,” Nationally, cigarettes kill well over four hundred thousand people each year.” I strongly suggest that tobacco shouldn’t be legal because it’s bad for one’s health, and it can be the most preventable cause of someone’s death. Tobacco is one of the most deadliest, yet legal drugs known to mankind. According to CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), “Smoking causes 443,000 deaths each year in the United States. 443,000. That’s more than the population of some small cities in America. Cigarettes take more lives than automobile accidents, alcohol abuse, illegal drugs, AIDS, murder, and suicide all combined. (Edward M. Kennedy). Tobacco contains nicotine which is one of the most addictive chemicals that exist. Nicotine is actually used to kill insects, and is more addictive than the illegal drug famously known as crack cocaine. But nicotine is just one of the many deadly chemicals in cigarettes. The deadly habit of smoking tobacco has actually existed for centuries. According to an article titled “Smoking” from 2010,” The dangers of tobacco were not always well known. It was smoked by early...
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...Topic: Smoking should be banned permanently Name: Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: 30th May, 2012 Outline * Title Page * Introduction * Thesis statement * Body * Reasons as to why smoking should be banned permanently. * Conclusion * References Introduction. Smoking develops slowly and becomes a hard to drop habit when one becomes addicted. Smoking has a lot of disadvantages and impacts negatively on the smokers’ finances. Thesis statement: This paper seeks to define the reasons as to why I believe smoking should be banned permanently Reasons why belief smoking should be banned permanently. In my view, smoking should be prohibited entirely as the dangers associated with the habit are numerous and the disadvantages by far surpass perceived benefits of smoking. Firstly, smoking has adverse effects on health. Smoking can cause cancer of the lung, bronchitis and diseases of the heart. This leads to high mortality rates in a country (Bearman, 2011). Studies have also found that smoking contribute to impotence among smokers. Secondly, smoking is a hugely expensive habit. The cost to an individual smoker is highly significant. For instance, a person smoking two packets a day smokes over 700 packets in one year. Assuming that a pack costs $6, the individual would spend up to $4,200 per year. There are also indirect expenses incurred due to lost productivity and in health care. Thirdly, the habit of smoking is highly addictive. Nicotine contained in...
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...to inform the reader of the ill contribution of smoking (My mother started at 12) by explaining her mother’s lack of knowledge of health risks due to smoking. She further explains her mothers heavy smoking habit contributed to her low birth weight (She made no effort to cut down while she was pregnant with me,) even a time of an accidental fire (Mama set fire to my Easter basket) yet she is compelled to say smoking a user right, should not be infringed on by others whom understand the harsh illnesses caused by inhaling smoke directly or second hand. I strongly disagree with this point of view that asking someone to stop smoking whether in public or private are to be considered persons who hates people(misanthrope is someone who hates people). If the writer and can say smokers have the right to die from smoking if they chose then the same is true of non-smokers right to live without illness from cigarette smoke. Signs are placed in public areas as a reminder of the dangers of cigarette smoke not as a method of punishment to the smoker. If we were not educated to the dangers of second hand smoke as well as the effects on the smoker themselves there would not be any need for no smoking signs. However smoking is regarded (if too many smokers heed the Surgeon General’s warning and stop smoking, they will live to long and break the budget.) it is a fact the cost of treating a person whom has been smoking and has an illness related to cigarette smoke has...
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