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    Everyone knows at least one person who smokes cigarettes. If not, then everyone has inhaled the foul odor of the toxic smoke leaving the addicts body. With nearly 42.1 million people in the United States smoking cigarettes, this addiction has become a problem to say the least. “For decades, the public health community in the United States has asserted that cigarette smoking is the most deadly epidemic of modern times” (Verheij 1). According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, every one in five million Americans will die from a cigarette smoking-caused illness. Why is this problem never addressed? Simply because victims of this addictions refuse to give up what they believe is vital to their lifestyle. Considering the clear addiction,…

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    Tobacco is the main ingredient in the cigarettes. The main thing that makes up tobacco is nicotine. Nicotine is the addictive drug inside of tobacco. According to “The Dangers of Smoking” article written by The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, “[n]icotine, the substance in tobacco that makes smoking highly addictive, raises your heart rate, irritates the lining of your blood vessels, and promotes blood clotting, increasing your risk of heart attack and stroke” (2004.) Within…

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    Smoking Smoking is a practice that results in the smoke being absorbed by the body into the bloodstream that eventually reaches the human tissue. Smoking is very harmful, and almost affects every organ of the body. Smoking is responsible for lung cancer, among other types of cancers and health problems. Smoking was originally created in the early 5000BC. The main type and material for smoking is the cigarette, which contains tobacco. After that people developed another types of equipment and…

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    If you’re a student enrolled at midlands tech then you should have something to say about how certain things are dealt with. You may have a problem with smoking, parking, and the most common is with the professors/instructors. I know everyone has had a big issue with one of these problems such as a teacher not being the best in giving you instructions or you having a problem with her/his teaching methods. Smoking on campus and me being a non-smoker I don’t want to have to keep walking thru that…

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    Good Morning to all of our viewers. This is a very important public service announcement regarding the risks and dangers of smoking. Almost everyone knows that smoking is a very dangerous behavior and a hazard to many aspects of our health, but what most people do not know is that smoking has many more risk factors than what meets the eye. The dangers of smoking affect people of all ages, but it is especially popular among younger adults. Not only does smoking harm almost every organ in the…

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    Smoking About 8.6 million people in United States smoke. We all know that smoking causes lung disease, heart disease and cancer. It is written on cigarette packs that “smoking is injurious to health”. But millions of people in United States and around the world still smoke. Why do people still smoke? A lot of people smoke because their friends also smoke. Some people smoke to relieve stress, while others smoke just to fit in, but all they are fitting into is cancer. Almost seventy…

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    The Blunt Truth In today’s world you can go outside for a walk and you are bound to run into people who are smoking cigarettes, worst part is all those chemicals are burning off into the air we breath in which effects everyone around us. On the off chance that people have the capability to smoke chemicals that are terrible for the individual smoking, it additionally influences the world with the cigarette poisons being discharged onto the planet. Marijuana as well has many chemicals which…

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    Smoking Causes Lung Growth

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    mindful of the way that smoking reasons lung growth. Be that as it may, it scarcely matters to the individuals who smoke. As the infection happens after proper method of time, it prompts a condition of powerlessness. When the sickness is analyzed it has done adequate harm to the lung tissues and other systemic organs of the body. Smoking is a main source of growth and passing from disease. It causes tumors of the lung, throat, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach,…

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    clear, and persuasive message, and intimate knowledge of your target audience is critical. Unfortunately, for too long, the American tobacco industry have been aware of this, and have run direct mail campaigns that encourage smoking, particularly targeting younger demographics. Empirical…

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    Body mass increase subsequent to stopping is a genuine sympathy toward a few smokers. Around eighty for percent of smokers put on body mass when they quit.5 Be that as it may, most ex-smokers just pick up an unobtrusive measure of body mass. The normal body mass addition is around five kilograms in the principal year in the wake of stopping and quitting smoking cigarettes and around six to seven kilograms2. Individuals who quit can have altogether different encounters with body mass change,…

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