Passive smoking

Cigarette smoking has been around for decades, despite all the advertisement stating that smoking is bad for your health, people can be seen on the outside of their jobs taking a break with a pack of cigarette. I can remember taking up a pack of cigarette a family member left carelessly only to see in bold that smoking kills. This brought me to the point of why bother to smoke. (Brownlee and Roberts). “The dangers attributed to cigarettes moved to a menacing new plane recently when…

to have to cross the street to avoid a smoker’s cloud of death? Smoking negatively impacts people’s health, appearance and is hazardous…

trap. When cigarette companies make ads, they are lying because they know there is no benefit except the feeling from the addiction. It can't happen anymore. So many people die a year from lung cancer or other illnesses caused by smoking. Cigarette ads are glorifying smoking. If you ask any smoker when they started they will tell you 9 times out of 10 they started really young and much before they were of age. These ads are glorifying the use of tobacco and ultimately signing death certificates…

Did you know that smoking can cause over 13 types of cancer? People should not smoke because it causes cancer, it can kill people, and tobacco products are expensive furthermore if you smoke you run the risk of getting cancer. Cancer is a deadly incurable disease. If you smoke you have a 9 out of 10 chance of death. Tobacco is very expensive, an average pack of cigarettes is $5.00. Some people say that smoking is fine but we know the truth. People that smoke have a high chance of getting cancer…

Don’t you just love it when you bleed to death on your third birthday. And also when you would be put in the electric chair by age five. Or when you would be killed by your first week alive, just because you don’t produce products. You would be ground up alive, burned to death, crushed by a weight, or drowned in large tubs, just because you are a boy. And you just love how you get force fed 4 times a day just because your liver has to be 9 times bigger than a normal liver. And how would you like…

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…

Ever put a ring on and feel constant pressure, but throughout the day that pressure is hardly noticeable? Sensory adaptation is the cause for that. Sensory adaptation is the reduction of sensitivity as a result from constant stimulation (Myers, Dewall, 234). In other words, sensory adaptation occurs when we are continuously exposed to an unchanging stimulus (Myers, Dewall, 234). Subcategories of sensory adaptation include touch adaptation, sound adaptation, smell adaptation, and much more.…

Hypodermics on the Shore (aka “the Syringe Tide”) started a metaphorical fire in America because it sparked an environmentalist movement. The Syringe Tide was an environmental disaster where medical waste washed up along the beaches of Jersey Shore, in New York City, and on Long Island. Before there were any major environmental catastrophes, environmentalists focused on the effective utilization of natural resources. Once events like the Syringe Tide started to occur, environmentalists started…

“Lasting for man than a century, The Columbian Exchange would indeed change the course of world history, as the introduction of European plants, animals, and infectious diseases during the period brought about dramatic environmental and cultural changes to American South, indeed the entire North America” (Donald pg95). “The accompanying transfer of disease agents, meanwhile had devastating effects, some historians suggest that between 50 and 90 percent of the pre-Columbian population of…

The American Burn Association estimates that 486,000 people seek medical treatment for burns annually. Most burns occur in the home, are caused by a flame or scalding, and have a high survival rate at 96.8%. Despite their high survival rate they are the most painful types of injury and cause disfigurement in severe cases. The Four Types of Burns XXX Burns are categorized by the layers of skin affected: First degree burns. These affect the epidermis, which is the outermost layer of the skin.…