(including economic risk), and behavioral risk contribute to family health risks for those objectives noted by Health People 2020. The two objectives that will be discussed include smoking, to include health related problems that result in this behavior, and respiratory illnesses, including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Within the paper, prevention of exacerbation will also be noted as it relates to each illness. Tobacco Use
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NAIROBI D.H.O. KWAMANGA, J.A. ODHIAMBO and E.I. AMUKOYE ABSTRACT Objectives: To determine the prevalence of smoking and investigate factors that may influence smoking behaviour in secondary school students in Nairobi. Design: Cross-sectional survey in which a self-administered questionnaire was issued to the students. Setting: Sampled public and private secondary schools in Nairobi. Participants: All the students in the selected secondary schools were included in the study. Results: Five
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There Has Always Been A Safe Alternative To Cigarettes Smoking cigarettes have been known to cause many cancers, including mouth and lung, cardiovascular disorders and diseases, and pulmonary diseases. The 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, The Health Consequences of Smoking – 50 years of Progress, found that recent changes in the composition of cigarettes have further increased the risk of lung cancer. This report also adds age-related macular degeneration, congenital birth defects, liver cancer, colorectal
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illuminate another cigarette, you are submitting another murder and taking another punch at your lungs. As the Center for disease Control (CDC) states, smoking is the reason for "one in five deaths" every year in the United States alone(1). Since cigarettes can be viewed as a mass murder, they ought to be prohibited on the grounds that they are exceptionally dangerous to smoker and everyone around them since that makes them helpless against used smoke. Despite the fact that nicotine in cigarettes "improves
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health problems caused by smoking? According to a study made by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011, more deaths are caused each year by tobacco use rather than by HIV, Illegal drug use, alcohol use, suicides, and murders. On a report based on the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco consumption kills 10 Americans every hour, that’s 240 per day and nearly 87,600 each year, due to cancer, stroke, lungs and heart diseases brought on by cigarette smoking. I had never been interested
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we have learned many new things about tobacco. The effects and problems that it brings us such as birth defects, heart disease, stroke, and rheumatoid arthritis to name a few. In this article she explores all the reasons why people shouldn't smoke and the evolution of cigarettes. Dr. Mazzucco has supported claim on the problems and health risks that smoking causes. Smoking or tobacco use has been part of history for centuries, and in the last fifty years we have become exceptionally savvy on
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Smoking and it is effect on pregnant mothers’ Comm/215 Smoking While Pregnant According to Center of Disease Control and Prevention ("Smoking & tobacco use,"), tobacco kills five million people each year. In United States, only smoking is responsible for about 443, 000 death per year. Many women smoke without knowing the negative effect that smoking can have on their unborn babies during the pregnancy and after. The more the mother smokes, the bigger the bigger it gets the babies likelihood
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Today, nearly a billion people on earth smoke cigarettes. Many have tried to stop, and they, too, find that smoking can be extremely difficult to give up. In the United States, four out of fives smokers say they want to “kick the habit”; each year fewer than one in ten succeeds. To see why, it is necessary to understand the effects of tobacco’s most powerful ingredient: nicotine. Nicotine is an alkaloid poison found in tobacco leaves that defends the plant against insect attack. Nicotine affects
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China, should smoking in public places be prohibited? In recent decades, the number of the smoker in China has increased significantly, and the issue of whether smoking in public places should be banned or not has been widely argued. The term ‘smoking in public places’ refers to the phenomenon of having a cigarette in the area where many people gather. This essay will argue that smoking in public places should be prohibited. The reasons for this include the health issues caused by smoking, negative
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is a disease with disturbance or damage in brain function that may cause temporary or permanent function loss of the part of the body or even death. This disease is one of the major leading causes of death almost in all over the world, including Indonesia. According to Riskesdas' survey result, stroke causes 15,4% death in all ages in Indonesia. This rate is the highest among all death rates caused by other non-transmitted diseases. (Departemen Kesehatan RI, 2011) As a heterogeneous disease, stroke
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