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Would you allow your child to use tanning beds knowing the risk? “Studies have demonstrated that exposure to UV radiation during indoor tanning damages the DNA in the skin cells. Excessive exposure to UV radiation during indoor tanning can lead to premature skin aging, immune suppression, and eye damage, including cataracts and ocular melanoma.”(U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2016) Parents are allowing their kids to use tanning beds at a very young age, which is increasing their…

America’s Major Health Problems No one can live forever, but health problems cause Americans lives to be shorter. If America did not have as many health problems, life-span would constantly greater. Most people struggle every day to make healthy decisions and find a solution to their health problems. If everyone decided to make a change for the better of their health, America could be a different place. A myriad of factors influence how people care for their physical well-being and also…

Expedia.com® recently released the results of their annual Airplane Etiquette Study. Participants of the study ranked the most annoying passenger behavior. If you fly frequently it is likely you have experienced many of the behaviors on this list. Social media has also provided a spot light to share terrible passenger behavior or even live tweet it! There are even passenger shaming Facebook and Instagram accounts dedicated to sharing this unbelievable behavior. The survey found the first and…

Did you know that there are thousands of wildfires in the U.S each year? Many of those wildfires are started by people. Wildfires can have many bad effects on the environment. Wildfires can destroy homes and habitats, create smog and take many lives. Wildfires can destroy homes and habitats. When animals homes are destroyed they have to find a new place to live and the animals who already live there will be pushed out of there homes. When wildfires destroy homes people are forced to move or…

Authors: Brose LS; National Addiction Centre & UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom. McEwen A; National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training & Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University…

Candles are made up of chemical compounds pressed together in the form or a candle. They are made of two totally different types of wax which is Paraffin wax and Beeswax. The Paraffin candles are 95% of the world’s population of candle production. But when it comes to the beeswax the beekeepers can only used one or two pounds of the wax for every hundred pounds of honey they are able to harvest. They are also thought being able to clean the air because when the beeswax candle is burned it…

not be insured because of someone else health history. Health Insurance companies penalize people who smoke cigarettes or chewing tobacco. They charge higher premiums or refuse to provide them with coverage. People that have also quit using tobacco within the last several years are penalize. It can take someone several years to recover from a lifetime of smoking tobacco and it takes time for his or her risk of disease to decrease. Many plans provide coverage for smoking-cessation products but…

Prevention that each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, nearly 23 percent of high school students use tobacco products, and more than 90 percent of those teens smoke cigarettes, cigars, hookahs or pipes. This Increasing number of users is compatible to the number of deaths…

stated that “What you see depends not only on what you look at, but also on what angle you are looking from”. So in this case it’s a multitude of angles we can explore when peering into the issues of alcoholism and tobacco use. To illustrate on one hand, I agree that alcoholism and tobacco use is a social problem as society pays a high price for incidences related to both issues. For example, alcoholism cost society in the form of workplace productivity, medical expenses, devastation wrought by…

The text, 2BO2B by Kurt Vonnegut talks about a man named Edward K Wehling Jr, who waited for the birth of three triplets. Because of population control, Mr.Wehling was only able to take one of the three triplets home, according to the law. He sit in the waiting room, followed by Leora Duncan and Dr. Hitz. Mr. Wheeling becomes angered by the law, then shoot the two and himself to make room for the triplets to all survive. In the text, having population control benefited life, but not others. The…