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    Lung cancer, also most popularly known as an early death sentence for the “crime” of smoking. However what most people don’t know is how it occurs and how it progresses throughout one’s life. Lung cancer is the number one killer in cancers like when in 1987 it surpassed breast cancer. So far an estimate of 158,040 people have gone seven feet under for it this year. In the past 15 years the number of deaths caused by it have increased by 3.5%. The best way to avoid being a victim is to not smoke,…

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    I decided to do my cancer research paper on Lung cancer because more than 37.8 million people smoke cigarettes in the US and you have a 80-90% chance of getting lung cancer. Lung cancer starts in the lung , Their abnormal cells cluster together to form a tumor. Cancer cell grows without order or control, destroying healthy lung tissues around them. These tumors are called malignant tumors. My dad used to smoke every day for a year, he thought that nothing would happen to him. He got addicted…

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    The Causes of Cancer Cancer is one of the top leading deaths in the world today. It contains many diseases in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, and will continue to grow further. There are more than a hundred types of cancer. These types have many leading causes, some of them being radiation, air pollution, and genetics. One cause of cancer is radiation. Most people think of radiation as nuclear bombs or…

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    members. Although family members contract the same deadly diseases due to an employer’s recklessness, many states do not provide legal remedies. Keep in mind that asbestos-related diseases, such as asbestosis, a breathing disorder caused by lung tissue scarring, lung cancer and mesothelioma, are all completely preventable. Remove asbestos from the equation and the pipefitter father of five children and the pipefitter’s daughter who used to help wash her father’s clothes as a little girl would…

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    Lung cancer is caused by smoking but I will say don't smoke cause to really bad for you and then you get cancer then it becomes a habbit. that you don't even know that you're smoking it's like it's not even immune to you. And before you know it you have Lung cancer and you're fighting and then you think to yourself why did I even do that? Kinda dumb isn't it? You're just putting yourself up for it. When you smoke you're exhaling the smoke and it gets back into you're lung and then makes them…

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    diseases, lung diseases, and sometimes death. In addition, many people fall victim to second-hand smoke, but the ones mainly affected by it are children. Finally, the production of tobacco and its waste are major pollutants to the environment.…

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    The community action plan that I am going to initiate is banning smoking in a vehicle that children ride in. According to Daily the Post, “Secondhand smoke refers to tobacco smoke that is passively breathed in by people in the vicinity of a person who is smoking” (2014). Secondhand smoke can cause diseases in all ages, but can be worse on children. I think it should be illegal for anyone to smoke around children in such an enclosed space such as a vehicle, where children have to ride.…

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    In most people’s minds, there is no scarier diagnosis than that of a cancer. A lot of people think that there isn’t any cure for such a disease; an exaggerated idea that has been spreading and increasing year by year, due to the lack of knowledge in people about cancer. A marvelous story my father used to tell me about his diagnosed friend with cancer, my father is a heart doctor, so normally his friend would come to his clinic every while to run a check on his heart and cardiovascular system,…

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    Should Tobacco Be Outlawed

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    toxic substances. Subsequent to the poisons in second-hand smoke aren 't sifted yet, similar to they were when inhaled in from the cigarette, it 's far more terrible to inhale second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke kills around eight grown-ups a day from lung growth and 35,000 passing’s for every year from coronary illness. It is likewise fixing to 300,000 instances of bronchitis and pneumonia every year. Such an easily overlooked detail can bring about such a large number of issues for the smoker…

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    you have the want to smoke to get the same calm effect. Your respiratory system is the part of your body that includes your lungs which allows you to take in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. You lungs tend to filter things that are unwanted or harmful in your body. Toxins and chemicals from smoking get trapped in your lungs over time, which can put you at the risk of lung cancer. You become more prone to getting bronchitis, a cold, or the flu. The cardiovascular system is the part of your body…

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