Lung cancer

diabetes, cancer, and heart problems. While many claim that these health issues run in their families, that is not the case. The true factors that heavily affect these health issues are the lifestyle and geographical environment that are located and taken place in Louisiana. Living by “let the good times roll,” carries a heavy consequence. Louisiana is known for its festivals, and excessive food and alcohol consumption.Unfortunately, these…

marijuana pipes, bongs, and vaporizers. Just like cigarettes, marijuana smoke has plenty of hazardous elements that can destroy your respiratory system. These include polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are suspected to cause cancer. These toxins are the byproducts of combustion or burning. Studies have shown that patients who rely on medical marijuana can stay away from these problems by utilizing a vaporizer. In vaporization, the active elements of marijuana are released or turned…

insurance. Society should be for banning cigarettes because it would reduce healthcare costs as well as reducing air pollution. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) cigarette smoking effects every part of the body. Cigarettes can cause cancer in…

Smoking is a contract with cancer and many other harmful diseases, but with the new rise in e-sigs (Vaping), is it harmful. We all know that smoking is very bad and every one shuns it, but why do people never talk about the effects on vaping, is it bad for you or does it not do anything. Vaping is a broad topic, some have nicotine, some nothing but vapor, and some have vitamins in it. Some factors of vaping are harm full, but there is some ways it is healthy.…

other chronic health problems. Lung cancer being one. Other metals are present in smoking but aren’t as pertinent. Mercury is not very commonly inhaled in dangerous amounts but still can be found naturally. It can be dangerous when released from rocks, volcanoes and forest fires. It is then released naturally throughout the atmosphere. However, airborne mercury contamination results mainly from human activities. The main activities include: Burning of coal, oil, wood that contain mercury, if not…

“secondhand smoke is the smoke that is breathed out by a person who is smoking” (15). It is just cruel that bystanders are just as affected as those who smoked, and this is one important reason why cigarettes should be gone. Based upon, The American Cancer Society, “children are affected the worst by secondhand smoke because they are least able to avoid the smoke” (8). The thought of a poor child being affected by someone as their mother or father making a horrible decision is terrible, and more…

Tobacco is the most heavily used addictive product in the United States. Smoking harms every organ in the body. Cigarette smoking accounts for about one-third of all cancer deaths, including those from lung cancer. In fact, cigarette smoking has been linked to about 90 percent of all lung cancer cases. Research shows that smoking increases the risk of heart disease. Smokers harm others as well as themselves through secondhand smoke. Using tobacco has a lot of health effects that not only affect…

of picking a cigarette up and smoking it. Then, if they start smoking, the substances are back in their system and they have to start all over again. It’s bad for your children’s lungs because they are still developing,so they have a greater chance to develop serious lung problems like asthma,lung cancer,and other lung diseases. Smoking near your child is called secondhand smoking. Basically you are forcing your kid…

the fall of the Third Reich, but is said to have spared close to 20,000 German women from developing lung cancer. As time passed, anti-tobacco advertisements began to change. In July of 1968, the very first celebrity-endorsed commercial against smoking aired on television. It featured Bill Talman, and was recorded by the American Cancer Society. The ad was followed by his death due to lung cancer merely 6 weeks later. Organizations then began making advertisements about the dangers of…

The story is sadly familiar: Workers unknowingly were exposed to asbestos while at a mechanic shop or at a shipyard or at an array of other potential places and contracted mesothelioma decades later, ultimately dying from the cancer. And what about those people’s families? They are also at risk. Asbestos got on their loved one’s clothes, in vehicles and on shoes. While giving a hug or while doing laundry, they were easily exposed to the same carcinogens as they would be at a mechanic shop or…