Thank You for Smoking

Anti-smoking campaigns are made to inform everyone of the harms of smoking. Although they can be a bit morbid, they have made an impact on my life to not begin smoking. The main goals for anti-smoking campaigns are to discourage the idea of smoking in each individual’s mind. “Anti-tobacco media campaigns, often called counter-advertising campaigns, were originally aimed at countering the effects of tobacco advertising by cigarette manufacturers” (Friend, Levyl). Recently a research journalist…

Introduction: When we talk about lung cancer we automatically think of smoking, and not the history behind it. Normal lung tissue are made up of cells that are arranged by genes to create lung tissue in a certain shape to perform certain tasks. Lung cancer forms by out of control growth of abnormal cells in the lung. Lung cancer transpire when the genetic material responsible for production of lung cells are damaged. There are two main types of lung cancers; small cell and non-small cell lung…

Banned book week What you think about books being banned in a free country?while you're pondering about books being banned lots of books across the US have been banned for so many reasons like sexually explicit ,unsuited for certain age groups,drugs ,alcohol ,smoking ,homosexuality and these are mostly banned in public school and libraries. Thanks to American library association for defending the writers to promote the freedom of writing and expressing them selfs in their books. The perks of…

decided to kill myself with fly poison but right. I thank you Lord, right now for alerting my parent somehow that I took fly poison. I became the perfect little girl after that incident. I starting taking care of everyone else; I became to go to for everyone in the family thinking that would make them love me a little more. I became angry after been physically abused and always been mentally abused but Jesus you kept re-enforcing to me that you had me hear for a reason. Yet, at 8 years old…

Have you ever thought about of losing a love one? If so, it would be the difficult experience, and you would have to learn to accept it. For myself, when I was eighteen years old, I could not believe the day that my grandfather would be gone forever. Along with my grandmother, he was the one who raised me; he taught me how to become a good person. Therefore, when it happened, I could not stand on my own two feet. However, I must learn to accept the truth because it is fact that no one can escape…

Hello, well you see people thinks of “Racism” really as a disease on the human conscience. It’s just a blind idea that anyone can be lower than another, as well as to the point where it just that the person considers themselves superior and treating anything besides them as a sub-human, denying the humanity as well as the status of god. But I really think “Racism” is a projection of our own fears onto other person. And I can say this you see because I’ve experienced racism myself first hand.…

1 Chronic cough 2 Current smoker - 15-20 pack-year history 3 Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease/hiatus hernia 4 Diverticular disease 5 Osteoporosis Thank you for referring Jillian Whiffen, a 72-year-old lady who has previously owned a news agency and worked for a family business. Jillian currently smokes six cigarettes per day and keeps no pets. Regular medications are Nexium, Ostelin, Cardia, Crestor, Prolia infections and she was using Pulmicort a couple of months ago. Around three…

kid was my idol! “Go get me a lighter, brat." Stephen barked in Randall’s general direction. I remember thinking to myself that my father would have a heart attack if he found me smoking, especially in the house. Clearly, Mrs. Emerson wasn’t home from work just yet. “No way Stevie. You know what Mom said about smoking in the house.” Randall replied. He didn’t even look up from his card collection. “I – I will, ” I stuttered, trying to impress the older boy. “It’s in the glove compartment of…

cause all kinds of different emotions and feelings to arise. One campaign for an anti-smoking advertisement that not only gained a lot of attention, but also caused a lot of controversy was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The series was called, Tips From Former Smokers. In one commercial in the series, a woman named Terrie talks from a hospital bed as she is dying from cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. Terrie is sitting in the bed trying to talk using an…

"Tabacco Use".I learned that there are many harmful chemicals in a cigarette,close to 50,000 deaths per year in second hand smoking,causes heart disease, causes more colds and, yellow your teeth. Next I learned about "Risky Situations".In this lesson I learned that if your in a situation that you know is bad or you just dont want to do it walk away or tell the person how you feel.After that lesson we learned about "Safe and Responsible Choices". In that lesson I learned about diffrent ways of…