Essay on Harmful Effects of Tobacco

important to avoid taking drugs as they have several effects on the body. Illegal drugs or improper use of medication can result in addiction; you become dependent on the drug or medication. This leads to other negative effects on the body. Some drugs are hallucinogenics, which mean they cause someone to hallucinate—see things that are not there, believe things that are not true, and become irrational. This can put you in harm’s way. Also a common side effect of many drugs is your release of…

The negative Socioeconomic Effects of Marijuana Introduction Alcohol poisoning kills 6 people everyday and Tobacco use takes the life of 1,300 people per day. On the other hand, smoking marijuana alone has not killed a single person. Marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause deaths by overdose. However, it does negatively affect a person's health and behavior, and is proven to have a correlation with crime rates. Over the past several years of my life as a student, I have witnessed many…

Tell me: if somebody asked you whether you believed marijuana or alcohol was the more harmful substance, how would you respond? It’s a hot topic that has been debated amongst society for decades, but one has to wonder: why are one of these substances legal, while the other remains an illegal substance? In various cultures around the world, drinking alcohol has become a normalized activity, with many seeing getting intoxicated as a rite of passage into our adolescent years or as a celebration of…

stage of experimentation is trickling down to high schools. Although everyone has the choice whether they should or should not do drugs many students don’t have enough or the right information. Many students don’t know the short or long lasting effects that drugs can do to them, both mentally and physically. Students who use drugs are effected negatively, but students who are users and athletes are effected even…

drugs, like marijuana, should be legalized in the United States or not. Marijuana is a plant that many people grow in either farms, greenhouses, or fields and use that plant to most likely smoke or inhale. Many people say that marijuana is a bad and harmful drug and shouldn't be used in the United States. Others say that it should be legalized and can help others in the United…

Abstract Drugs are highly addictive and harmful. Marijuana is one of them. It is under debate whether Marijuana should be legalized. Due to many reasons it should remain illegal. First, it is harmful to the user’s health. When a person is under the influence of Marijuana that person becomes a danger to others. It can cause a person to be in a state in which they…

marijuana, a series of cellular reactions in the brain occurs and causes the consumer to feel the “high” that comes within just a few minutes of smoking it. However, when consumed through food or beverages, it can take up to an hour or more to take effect. (8) With all of these medicating options for medical marijuana users available, their ability to medicate more discretely in now possible. Not all medical marijuana users use the drug to get high, there are thousands who truly use the drug…

One objective of this goal is to increase abstinence of illegal drug use among pregnant women (About Healthy People (2014). Retrieved August 17, 2014.). According to the American Pregnancy Association, consuming drugs during pregnancy can have many harmful results. Drug use during pregnancy is unsafe for both the fetus and the mother. It is important for pregnant women to be aware of and understand the risks involved in consuming drugs during pregnancy, such as miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm…

inside her womb is sometimes taken too lightly. So many different factors in the environment of the mother can be extremely harmful to the fetus, if not fatal. To describe the broad spectrum of environmental agents that have the potential to cause damage or death in the prenatal period of fetus development, the term teratogen is given. Teratogens can be things such as drugs, tobacco, alcohol, radiation, environmental pollution, viruses, and bacterial or parasitic diseases just to name a few…

that planting seeds resulted in germination - that societies began to develop more than 12,000 years ago. Communities then started to grow plants to feed them, and over the years, they developed a variety of techniques to make them resistant to the effect of climate changes, such as plagues (insects), diseases, and dry soil. (Baskey-East, 2016) However, with industrialization, modernization and the steady growth of the world population, other problems began to emerge. The expansion of human…