Dangers of Smoking Essay

People called me “Fatty”. I used to be agitated by that name, but not anymore now. I rolled up my sleeves and lit a cigarette. “Hey, Fatty, no smoking here,” the short-haired young woman standing beside me glared at me. Her grip on a gun tightened. After taking a good long puff, I flashed her a grin. “Come on, relax, girl. Nobody has time to catch illegal smokers here. You want a puff?” I handed her the cigarette. She shook her head, seemingly irritated. I laughed and took another puff. A gush…

First of all we would like to wish all of our readers a very Happy Fourth of July! We just wanted to remind you to protect your hearing if you’re attending a fireworks display or if you’ll be attending any noisy events and of course we’d like to remind you to have a good time! Do you know how loud fireworks can be? Noise from exploding fireworks can reach a massive 150-175 decibels! The World Health Organisation recommends that adults not be exposed to more than 140 dB of peak sound pressure.…

accidents/incidents; with the end goal being to ensure the health and safety of its employees. Using the Hierarchy of control Businesses have successfully eliminated many hazards or have downgraded the risks associated with them. SMOKING IS NOT A NECESSITY!, and by permitting smoking, employers are not ensuring the well-being of their employees; they are in-fact putting their lives at risk. Thus failing to follow a key guideline within the act “Employees must ensure the health & safety of their…

Today, I will be giving you information on lung cancer. All types of cancer has become more common throughout the years that media has expanded. We see cancer survivors, cancer victims, family members of cancer patients, and many more campaigns to raise money to find a cure. I chose this topic because I myself have had quite a few family members die to this horrific disease. We should all be aware of how dreadful lung cancer is. Lung cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the lungs. Your…

Torres Strait Islander people have been negatively impacted by overly using alcohol, drugs, and by smoking which leads to many health issues. According to the Bureau of Statistics (2010) almost half of the Indigenous population (45.1%) are current smokers and 23.7% are ex-smokers, meaning that 68.8% of the Indigenous population have or are currently opening themselves up to the health issues that smoking leads to. In a self-assessed health status, the trend revealed in graph 4.1(a) shows that…

Dennise Hernandez Mount Tambora Planet Earth has several types of volcanoes. Some are simply asleep, others are definitely extinct, and many volcanoes have some activity going on, waiting to go into eruption every so often. Among these volcanoes, one is known for its catastrophic damage that caused climate change. Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, had been showing activity since 1812, when it began to rumble and generate a black cloud. In those times, unfortunately, the…

What role does Chemical Warfare play in war? Surprisingly it doesn’t play a role at all anymore. When man was refining weapons of war there were three things troops trembled at the thought of which is biological warfare, nuclear warfare and chemical warfare all these things are man-made in labs by scientists. It was always something troops were afraid of because these weapons if used right can end battles fairly quickly. These weapons are so strong that they have been banned from production by…

According to W.H.O(World Health Organization), in 2011 approximately one million people commit suicide each year worldwide, that is about one death every 40 seconds or 3,000 per day. For each individual who takes his/her own life, at least 20 attempt to do so. Suicide has a global mortality rate of 16 per 100,000 people. Willy got into many car crashes that Linda knew about and made excuses for them, but Willy proved them wrong. Everyone knew about the carbon monoxide tube and did nothing to…

Will the Tanning Bed be officially banned? The statistics that were recently made about tanning beds have shocked even all of the dermatologists. However people still won't give them up. Nobody believes, but there is amazingly big number of people who are dying , literally of course, for a tan. Numerous dermatologists explained that tanning like this refers to a cancer. It is a thriving source of bronzed, but also damaged skin. The United States Department of Health and Human Services and the…

The genus Neisseria includes a wide range of species, N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis are the most common when it comes to infections in humans. The other species are sometimes referred to as “non pathogenic Neisseria” yet they still can cause some serious conditions such as endocarditis, meningitis, or pneumonia. In this case study they analyzed a patient with Neisseria sicca endocarditis. The patient was a 41-year-old-male who had been admitted to a hospital for fever and flu-like…