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    (Newman). Over two point five million people have died from passive smoke, because of being exposed to secondhand smoke. Smokers who smoke around children increase the children’s risks of developing smoking related diseases, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, pneumonia, and bronchitis (Chew). Additionally women who smoke during pregnancy consequently put the fetus at risk of developing asthma and being born at an unhealthily low weight. Over 350…

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    Recognizing this stage will lead you to specific ways that will help change their belief. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and it is responsible for about one in five or half-million deaths every year. (Patel, Feucht, and Reid, 2010). Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke results in an estimated 49,000 deaths every year. (Patel, Feucht, and Reid, 2010). Considering the facts can lead a person to the contemplation stage. An individual in the…

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    worsening their health. The health impacts of the problem (National and state-level data within the last 5 years) Health Effects of second hand smoking has an impact on every organ in the body. Smoking may be an underestimate, because it considers deaths only from the 21 diseases that have been formally established as caused by smoking (12 types of cancer, 6 categories of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], and pneumonia including influenza)…

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    that part of tobacco smoke too. (Oreskes & Conway, 2010) The evidence to how harmful tobacco smoke can be is out there some people just choose not to listen or simply think these dangers will not happen to them. Tobacco counts for every one in five deaths in the United States, which adds up to be about 480,000…

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    Smoking is a secondhand mixture of gases and right particles that includes smoke from a blistering product such as cigarettes, marijuana, or smoke that has occurred to be exhaled from a person who is smoking. A Nonsmokers who inhales second hand smoke gets the same toxic chemicals and in additional to smoking the more smoke you inhale the more detrimental chemicals you will inhale. There is no dangerous-free level of vulnerability. 126 Million Of smokers however nonsmokers are exposed to…

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    Ventricular Septal Defects (VSD) Ball & Bindler (2008) describes this condition as an opening in the ventricular septum, which causes an increase in pulmonary blood flow. VSD is a hole in the wall separating the two lower chambers of the heart (AHA, 2016). The blood is shunted from the left ventricle artery, across the open septum into the pulmonary artery without any impediment (Ball & Bindler, 2008). The opening may cause a higher pressure in the heart or reduced oxygen to the body (AHA, 2016)…

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    of all cancer deaths in 2014 representing at least 167,133 people were related to smoking cigarettes. More than a third of those deaths occurred in California”. Imagine the entire world, cigarettes are like an epidemic once a person smokes one cigarette it leads to smoking a pack a day. Once the person starts smoking a pack a day, it leads to health complications. Health complications leads to lung cancer, and if the person does not catch it on time, the person could die and the death tolls…

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    Safety Commission defines Carbon Monoxide as “a deadly, colorless, odorless, poisonous gas” (2015). My grandpa was a heavy smoker until the day he died; his medical reports after his death showed very high levels of carbon monoxide in his system. The doctors told us that he has potentially suffocated himself to death. He was 74 years old when this happened; he had the choice to quit and chose not to. To get my point across, children do not have a choice of whether or not to be in a vehicle…

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    dramatically increase a person’s risk for high blood pressure, stroke, anemia, cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, pharynx, larynx, and breast, and severe liver damage. Of the 71,713 cases of death as a result of liver disease that occurred in 2013, 46.4 percent were alcohol-related. In 2011, 48.0 percent of all deaths due to cirrhosis involved alcohol. Long-term addiction to alcohol can also lead to many heart complications, such as cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias, and can weaken a person’s…

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    impossible (Family Doctor). The positive effects of these various vaccines listed above and many others are enormous. One of the obvious reasons would be the disease prevention created by vaccines. These vaccines prevent disease, disability, and death. The vaccines not only protect the child and their well-being but the community around them (Risks vs. Benefits). The statistics show a 95% decrease of preventable diseases since vaccines have been mandated. For example, in 1951-1954, 16,316…

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