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    hazardous risk of smoking to the health, so everyone who chooses to smoke is well informed and educated on the possible outcome of their habit. People still get addicted to cigarettes in spite of them knowing the effects of smoking, and the tobacco companies are not to be held responsible for this addiction. There marketing is just a suggestion and not a forceful act, the person who had to make a conscious decision to purchase a cigarette and use it constantly despite knowing the effect should…

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    Smoking Act of 1969 regulations on tobacco products were implemented. These regulations required a health warning to be put on cigarette packages and banned advertisement on broadcast media, and an annual report on the effects of smoking became a requirement (CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], 2012a). However, with all of the warnings of chronic…

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    For a long duration, the major tobacco companies concealed the truth about the calamitous effects of smoking. Adding to that, some of the companies also instilled extra nicotine and a variety of other chemicals into the tobacco to increase its addictivity. The companies, like Brown & Williamson, didn't impart these activities to the government or to their customers (The Insider). A film released in 1999, The Insider, tells the story of two whistleblowers. The first whistleblower who has a Ph.D.…

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    though tobacco benefits the economy; it still harms you, the community, and the people around you. Tobacco is a crop that's been around since the beginning of time going back to notable time periods like the colonization of America. Its products are sold worldwide and is a leading corporation with sales of over a billion dollars. The downside; however, is that tobacco use is the top avoidable cause of death in the United States today, with more than about 500,000 deaths each year. Tobacco but…

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    Not only that, according to the CDC's fact sheets, they state that, there are 443,000 deaths annually due to tobacco use, including deaths from secondhand smoke. For many years, tobacco use has been constantly killing thousands of people and its production continues to expand. Cigarettes are not only affecting those who smoke, but even those who do not, due to secondhand smoke. Despite someone not…

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    Introduction In this article, the writer argument the cigarettes company because it is the first cause of teen smoking. I really support the writer in this article because the teen smoking hazardous phenomena on society. Also, the writer was calling to know the basic reasons for teen smoking, and how to help them to quit this bad habit. When we know the reasons, we can find the solution. Summary This article "Teen Smokers," by Chris Woolston, presents several reasons for teen…

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    Tobacco has recently been monitored closer in the past decade than ever before. New laws and regulations have been made such as where people can smoke and what goes into cigarettes. The reason for the government regulating these tobacco products are because we are learning just how dangerous it can be. In the last fifty years health risks from tobacco has been on the rise. Tobacco is linked to many diseases, and cancers, and can have harmful long-term effects on people’s health. In the book…

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    We all know that tobacco kills humans. Whether it is Bidis, Cigars, Kreteks, Dissolvable tobacco, Shisha tobacco, Pipe tobacco, or Smokeless tobacco, it all kills humans. On October 15, 1492, Mr. Columbus was granted dried tobacco from the Native Americans. The Native Americans of the US considered tobacco plants as an inheritance from the Great Spirit, and they used it in their religious practice sessions. Tobacco is an important part of Native American spirituality, even today they use it…

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    various industries such as tobacco, flame retardant, and oil companies like Exon mobile. The story begins in the 1950 with a look at tobacco industry and their public relations campaign strategies that are designed to create doubt that cigarettes does not causes cancer. The public relation expert such as Hill and Knowlton realized that it would be difficult to challenge scientific facts regarding the effects of tobacco and cigarette. Instead of advising tobacco companies…

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    stage in life especially as an African-american male. However, not drifting away from the subject at hand, when you turn 18 in South Carolina you are allowed to buy tobacco products. As some of us may know, the leading tobacco product that causes cancer is: cigarettes. Although compared to drugs such as marijuana, which can cause hallucinogenic reactions over time. Tobacco may cause cancerous tolls on your body(which is the main side effect/cause of tobacco cigarettes). As a child I watched my…

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