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    Pros And Cons Of Smoking

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    Blood is delivering oxygen and nutrients to our body. Nicotine is a stimulant, speeding up the heart by about 20 beats per minute with every cigarette they smoke and it raises the blood pressure. Carbon monoxide from tobacco smoke literally poisons the oxygen carrying the capacity of the blood (Joel Spitzer…

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    Sugar-Coated Bullet “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.” Because of its catchy jingle, the slogan was one of the most well known campaigns of tobacco advertising. In the 1950s, people had not realized the harm of tobacco, and the slogan was ubiquitous in America. As a result, more and more people were attracted to smoke and consume tobacco product. Finally, in 1964, a report about smoking revealed that “cigarette smoking was a cause of lung cancer” (reports). The cruel fact caused a…

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    Secondhand Smoking

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    Over 60 million people die a year from smoking cigarettes ("Smoking"). Tobacco is made of lots of chemicals.The great american smoke has been trying to stop people from smoking. There are many reasons that smoking should be banned in public places. Due to the faulty effects cigarettes have on adults and the bad effects secondhand smoke has on children smoking should be banned in public places Cigarettes can cause second smoke can cause second hand smoke in children. Children's bodies…

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    they refuse to ban the easily addictive drug from the hands of civilians. It is also important to outlaw cigarettes because not only will it save thousands of smoker’s lives but also it will keep the people around them safe from their bad decisions. Nicotine is a drug found in tobacco, it is addictive as heroin and cocaine. It only takes about 8 seconds for it to reach the brain (Arundel). Teens can experience tobacco dependence within a day of inhaling, including strong urges to some, anxiety…

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    toxic and carcinogenic mixture of more than 5,000 chemicals.”(Talhout et al. 613). In other words, tobacco smoke is a mixture of numerous toxic chemicals that can cause cancer. It consists of three main harmful compounds: carbon monoxide, tar, and nicotine. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that has no colour, taste or smell. Moreover, the body finds it hard to distinguish from oxygen and absorbs it into the bloodstream. Very high amounts of this substance can reduce the body’s functions, thus…

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    More than 3,200 Americans under 18 years old smoke their first cigarette dependably. Shockingly, most new smokers are unaware of the dangers of this new inclination, including heart infections, lung sullying, diabetes, stroke, and basically sickness. The quick overview of parts of cigarettes educates a critical measure regarding its benefits and it additionally enlightens the motivation driving why smoking takes more than 480,000 passing dependably. Cigarettes contain up to 600 fixings on top of…

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    DISCUSSION CD is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterized by chronic, granulomatous, segmental transmural inflammation that may occur in any part of the alimentary tract from mouth to anus. In the human upper digestive tract, the oesophagus is the least common segment involved in CD.[10,11] It is not difficult to diagnose oesophageal CD if other segments of the digestive tract are also involved or in patients with a previous history of crohn’s disease. The typical…

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    The active and addicting ingredient is nicotine. The seed of the plant is very miniscule but contains approximately 300,00 seeds. There are two major species of Nicotiana, Nicotiana tobacum and Nicotiana rustica. Amerindians were the first to use tobacco for trade or “peace pipes.” Tobacco was…

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    Safe Cigarette Analysis

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    environments. This deadly compound is called nitrosamine and is formed when the bacteria in the tobacco becomes deprived of oxygen and looks to the nitrates as a source. The bacteria takes the oxygen from the nitrate causing the nitrite to draw to the nicotine molecules forming the nitrosamines. Yes, there has been ways of curing of curing this, but according to the documentary, toxic compounds that are found in the organic tobacco are produced at different temperatures. (Schreiber,20:21)This…

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    Global Tobacco Epidemic

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    Introduction While Mark Zuckerburg dreams of having a world without disease and research is making progress finding cures, at the present time one of the most costliest man-made inventions that has had the greatest impact on global health and economic burden is cigarettes and tobacco products. The Worth Health Organization (WHO) estimates by 2030 eight million people will be killed by tobacco and most deaths will occur in middle to lower income societies. Although smoking rates have decrease…

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