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person's blood pressure which puts stress on the heart.Stress on a person's heart can lead to an heart attack. Another way smoking damages your heart is it causes hearing loss, blindness, cavities, and can make your skin dry.Smoking also turns your lungs black. These are ways smoking damages your health.…

1. There are various ways in which gender influences injury rates. The books provided several major injuries that causes death. This includes poison, motor vehicle accidents, suicide, homicides, and falls. According to CDC (2011), men are twice more likely than women to die from poisons, which is the second leading unintentional injury death of all ages. Suicide is another way that gender influences injury rates. Women are more likely to attempt suicide compare to men, however, men are more…

so dangerous that approximately 3,000 adults die each year from lung cancer due to secondhand smoke, and another 46,000 die from heart disease also acquired from second hand smoke. The people that are most negatively impacted and largely account for the numbers above are people that live with smokers. The chances have increased in recent years from 20% to 30% as far as developing a life-threatening cancer or disease. The American Lung Association recently released a whopping number of 2.5…

Have you ever lost somebody who you loved? Well my heart was in two when I found out my grandma had lung cancer. First of all it was in Colorado during the fall, winter, and spring. The view was really sad when I saw my grandma at her worst. First of all they had to live in an apartment because when they were on vacation there house caught on fire. When I went to the apartment she had no hair it was shocking to see her without hair. I Asked her “ Grandma Diane how are you feeling?” She…

Just imagine a family enjoying a calm sunny day at the park. The birds are singing the breeze is cool and refreshing when all of a sudden puff-puff the magic dragon walks by blowing smoke along the way. While they gag on someone else’s addiction and watch as they take one last long draw from their chemical stick and drop it on what was once the nice clean pavement, and snuff it out with their shoe leaving a black sooty stain behind. This crude and possibly over exaggerated image is…

What Is Asbestos, And Why Is It Dangerous? Asbestos is a heat-resistant fibrous mineral that is found insulating materials. Many older homes and buildings have asbestos. Asbestos is not dangerous unless the particles are released in the air. The fibers can be released if the asbestos is disturbed or damaged. It is estimated that 5,000 workers die each year due to asbestos exposure. Many places have banned asbestos. However, if a home or building that was built or refurbished before 2000, then…

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…

It’s 2015 and we all have heard the many harmful effects due to smoking. There are thousands! Some effects of smoking are lung and heart disease, pneumonia, and emphysema. According to Cancer.org there are several types of cancer you can get while smoking such as tongue, mouth, and throat cancer, bladder cancer, cancer of the pancreas, and cancer of the voice box. So why are these products still being sold? A cigarette can cause many problems for the smoker and the people around them, therefore…

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…

thought this was a woven asbestos fibre mat. Slaves in roman times used to wear a shirt that was also cleaned by throwing the shirt in a fire, however the Romans also noticed that the slaves that were wearing the magic garment were dying of a horrible lung disease. For the Romans to call it a horrible death you just know it has to be a bad way to go. Fast forward to the 1900's and asbestos was being used in everything from chimneys to brakes and everything in between. Asbestos can be found in…