Carcinogen

In the issue of fracking, using water and various chemicals to extract natural gas from the ground, many people support it on the basis that it makes the United States less dependent on foreign energy supplies, however, it destroys the environment around it, which leads to people disregarding it as a risk not worth pursuing. An editorial in the Toledo blade called ”Fracking’s Dangers,” explores the relationship between fracking and the increase in earthquakes within the past few decades. The…

Jim Rohn once stated, “Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.” The human body is made up of trillions of cells that grow, reproduce, and die constantly. Our cells are directed by DNA, which can be damaged at times during replication due to copying errors and environmental agents such as smoke. In most cases, the DNA will eventually be repaired or the cell will die on its own. However, there are cases where the cell with damaged DNA will continue to reproduce and not die…

different process in which it forms, which makes the treatment method custom for each individual. The way lung cancer occurs is quite simple. During the most common cause of lung cancer, smoking, when you breathe in the smoke from the cigarettes, the carcinogens from the tobacco…

day. There is property or characteristic for some contaminants which is volatile, this lead to having like these contaminates in our environment. Examples of these substances include: benzene, pesticides, deodorants, and disinfectants. Chemical carcinogen are odorless, colorless, naturally or man-made substances responsible to cause harmful effects on the environment and the human. For example, these substances are considered…

Identification of human carcinogen (DDT) DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) is a pesticide derived from chlorinated hydrocarbon. DDT‘s history dates back to 1940’s, the use of this pesticide eventually peaked in the 1960’s. However due to its detrimental effects on human health and wildlife, it was banned from the United States market in 1972. DDT like other chlorinated hydrocarbon is a very stable compound and hence, tends to be more persistent in the environment. DDT is also known as a…

causing addiction faster, and quitting even harder due to the fact you’re used to more nicotine. “Holding an average sized chew in your mouth for 30 minutes is equivalent to smoking 4 cigarettes (Smokeless Tobacco).”.There are also 28 cancer causing carcinogens and you are more susceptible to gum disease, tooth decay, staining of your teeth, leukoplakia, and cavities. Chewing tobacco has sugar in it which causes the cavities. An estimated 3% of American adults use smokeless tobacco on a daily…

“In 2014, an estimated 15,780 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,960 died of the disease.” Cancer caused by many factors, but defined as an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. The question is “How is the cultures Americans are practicing leading to a cause of cancer?” That one statistic stated are only a small proportion of the Americans affected from this disease called cancer and culture can be one of them. The way many Americans…

Weed killers contain chemicals to control weeds. A chemical called glyphosate kills weeds by preventing protein essential to plant growth. Weed killers mainly contain glyphosate which is believed to stop plants from producing certain molecules called amino acids. Plants make amino acids from scratch in order to live. On the other hand, people and some animals receive these amino acids from eating plants because they do not have the ability to make amino acids for they lack enzymes that are…

Furthermore, implementing laws similar to alcohol would provide a boundary on what kind of people can use the product. An age limit such as 21 for alcohol would be an appropriate age for allowed usage of cannabis. It has been said many times again that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol but alcohol is the one that is legal? Vauhini Vara of the American Media Company states, “marijuana, in its current form, is less harmful than either tobacco or alcohol.” If this is true, why is alcohol legal…

Genetically engineering our food supply carries risks to farmers, the environment, and people living near the fields that are heavily sprayed with the herbicide Roundup, which the World Health Organization recently said is a probable human carcinogen. GMOs are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering, or GE. How are people supposed to know what goes into organisms to "enhance" it? This is a dangerous problem that many…