Smoking cessation

Today, I will be giving you information on lung cancer. All types of cancer has become more common throughout the years that media has expanded. We see cancer survivors, cancer victims, family members of cancer patients, and many more campaigns to raise money to find a cure. I chose this topic because I myself have had quite a few family members die to this horrific disease. We should all be aware of how dreadful lung cancer is. Lung cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the lungs. Your…

Torres Strait Islander people have been negatively impacted by overly using alcohol, drugs, and by smoking which leads to many health issues. According to the Bureau of Statistics (2010) almost half of the Indigenous population (45.1%) are current smokers and 23.7% are ex-smokers, meaning that 68.8% of the Indigenous population have or are currently opening themselves up to the health issues that smoking leads to. In a self-assessed health status, the trend revealed in graph 4.1(a) shows that…

Dennise Hernandez Mount Tambora Planet Earth has several types of volcanoes. Some are simply asleep, others are definitely extinct, and many volcanoes have some activity going on, waiting to go into eruption every so often. Among these volcanoes, one is known for its catastrophic damage that caused climate change. Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, had been showing activity since 1812, when it began to rumble and generate a black cloud. In those times, unfortunately, the…

What role does Chemical Warfare play in war? Surprisingly it doesn’t play a role at all anymore. When man was refining weapons of war there were three things troops trembled at the thought of which is biological warfare, nuclear warfare and chemical warfare all these things are man-made in labs by scientists. It was always something troops were afraid of because these weapons if used right can end battles fairly quickly. These weapons are so strong that they have been banned from production by…

According to W.H.O(World Health Organization), in 2011 approximately one million people commit suicide each year worldwide, that is about one death every 40 seconds or 3,000 per day. For each individual who takes his/her own life, at least 20 attempt to do so. Suicide has a global mortality rate of 16 per 100,000 people. Willy got into many car crashes that Linda knew about and made excuses for them, but Willy proved them wrong. Everyone knew about the carbon monoxide tube and did nothing to…

Will the Tanning Bed be officially banned? The statistics that were recently made about tanning beds have shocked even all of the dermatologists. However people still won't give them up. Nobody believes, but there is amazingly big number of people who are dying , literally of course, for a tan. Numerous dermatologists explained that tanning like this refers to a cancer. It is a thriving source of bronzed, but also damaged skin. The United States Department of Health and Human Services and the…

The genus Neisseria includes a wide range of species, N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis are the most common when it comes to infections in humans. The other species are sometimes referred to as “non pathogenic Neisseria” yet they still can cause some serious conditions such as endocarditis, meningitis, or pneumonia. In this case study they analyzed a patient with Neisseria sicca endocarditis. The patient was a 41-year-old-male who had been admitted to a hospital for fever and flu-like…

Lead, mercury and arsenic serve no function in the human body and are poisonous. If accumulated in large enough amounts, they can cause severe illness and death . However, this is not the only case. Even metals that are proven essential to human body functions such as iron can become toxic if they accumulate in large amounts. It is when there are excessive amounts of these heavy metals in your body that the function of chelation therapy comes into play. The main function of chelation therapy is…

Dare is an old program that hasn’t happened for several years. It is used to educate kids about drugs, alcohol, and how to turn them down. D.A.R.E. has helped our grade achieve lots of different things. D.A.R.E has helped me learn about why drugs and alcohol are bad for you, how to solve some of my problems, and how these lessons will help in years to come. Did you know that drinking alcohol can damage every organ in your body? That is one of the many, many reasons why alcohol and drugs are bad…

Instagram users are sending money to artist after the online photo-sharing app logged him off permanently. This was due to sexy Hilary Clinton art painted for all to see. Ron Burgundy would call it provocative. Trump is DTF. And Bill may have lost another cigar. After banning the artist, Instagram took some heat. There were cries of censorship over the take down of sexy Hilary Clinton. Were they wrong? Are the photo-sharing app executives trying to direct their users in a certain political…