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    Smoking is a bad habit that a lot of people do. In 2012, 967 million people smoked every day. That would be estimated up to around 6.25 trillion cigarettes during 2012. “Even with every day more than 3,200 people younger than eighteen smoke their first cigarette.” Around 16 million Americans are living with a diseased by smoking. Smoking needs to stop, “it kills 480,000 people in the U.S. and 41,000 deaths from second-hand smoking.” People needs to stop smoking for good. Ethos deals with the…

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    "Smoking is like having a broken burglar alarm. You don 't know the burglar has been there until all your things are stolen," (http://www.altoonafp.org/special_analogies.htm, section 6) Smoking is a topic that has been debated about for a long time. People have the opinion that it has negative influences on the body, on the economy, and on the environment. Smokers believe that it is not that big of a deal. This nasty habit effects everyone on this planet in some way or form. To begin with,…

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    because the state believes that the public is at risk for health problems due to second-hand smoking (Clune). The Public health officials have argued that the bans are implemented to "eliminate dangers" from secondhand, or “sidestream smoke,” which will reduce the environmental impact of cigarette butts and keep the young away from picking up bad habits they see in public (Clune). Many bars do suffer from the smoking ban and have filed lawsuits against the ban, I do believe businesses should…

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    Burdens of Tobacco In the narrative, “My Daughter Smokes”, Alice Walker asserts that smoking is a way to enslave one’s self and is disrespectful to the tobacco plant itself. She supports her claim by sharing her father’s experiences, as well as her own, her sister’s, and her daughter’s. The author struggles to deal with her daughter’s habit because of how smoking destroyed her father. Walker goes on to describe the empathy and respect that the plant deserves, as well as the importance of its…

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    smoke? Well here are some of the effects that may happen. My opinion about smoking is that it is bad for your lungs and it can kill you. I think that because 443,000 to 448,000 people die per year, so that’s about 80-90 percent of people died from smoking.( there's more and more people dying each year). Smoking can give you lung cancer, get many diseases, and can make you lose all your teeth or even your skin! Smoking can affect your life in many- many- many ways.…

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    that cigarettes are drugs and should not be thought of lightly. Seventy percent of smokers can’t quit (“Tobacco Related Diseases”). But luckily after the age of twenty-six if you have never smoked before, then you probably never will (Benjamin). Smoking also ruins our environment because the smoke and chemicals from the cigarette pollute our air (Benjamin). You should not smoke at all, but especially not while you are pregnant, because it hurts the baby. It lowers the amount of oxygen to your…

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    knows that smoking cigarettes are a bad habit and are dangerous for the user 's health. These cancer causing, teeth yellowing, bad breath causing cigarettes are still used everyday by people all over the world. It used to be cool to smoke and it seemed like everyone did it. Like fashion, smoking cigarettes soon became the thing of the past. People still smoke, but not as much as they used to. A couple years ago electronic cigarettes were introduced to the US, making smoking cool again. Smoking…

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    Introduction &Primary goal of informatics/HIT project element Cigarette smoking is a universal health hazard. It is considered one of the leading causes of preventable death around the world (Morrell, Skarbek & Cohen, 2011). It is responsible for numerous adverse outcomes and diseases related to tobacco use. Tobacco use is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It represents the single most important preventable health hazard worldwide. In the United States, cigarette use is…

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    CAUSES OF SMOKING TO TEENAGERS Most people know smoking is bad for their health but do they really understand smoking can make their life in dangerous. One of the most common problem today that are killing people all over the world is cigarette. Tobacco contains nicotine a highly addictive drug that can makes a difficult for smokers to quit from smoking. Not only tobacco that contains in cigarette can harm us, but it also has tar, ammonia, alcohol and carbon monoxide. Nowadays smoking is…

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    smoking should be banned in the united states: not only does it cause many health problems to smokers, it also can be harmful to nonsmokers who are exposed to smoking for as little as thirty minutes and According to research, about fifteen billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide everyday. Although smoking in public places is legal in the united states, most people tend to overlook the various health problems that smokers cause to nonsmokers.Second hand smoke is just as…

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