Tobacco products

Introduction Narrative Picture me a child 16 months old, in a park playing happily with my parents...now picture my parents smoking their cigarettes. The smoke reaches me continually through the few hours that we are there. My lungs are filled with dangerous chemicals through a process referred to as second hand smoking. Later, because my irresponsible parents failed to stop themselves and take care of my health. This has been happening since I was born, I end up in the hospital later that week.…

Most people know smoking causes cancer and other major health problems. Do those people know what smoking can do to a fetus? A mother must make many decisions while she is pregnant and smoking should not be one of them. Why would a mother who loves her unborn child want to harm him or her? Smoking while pregnant can causes issues with the mother throughout the pregnancy, birth defects with the baby, and other lifelong health issues. If a mother chooses to smoke while pregnant she increases the…

Memory loss can happen in many ways from amnesia to alzheimer's. Alzheimer's is a brain disorder that will slowly destroy memory and thinking skills. It will make it hard for a person to remember the easiest things to do, like remembering were there own bathroom is in their own house. Alzheimer's is a disease that around five million people have. It has been ranked sixth in diseases that kill people in the united states but recent studies have shown that is could have reached rank 3 in the…

Soda is an addiction and all addictions have corruptive side-effects. Some side-effects of soda include irritability, restlessness, tension, insomnia, high blood pressure, gastrointestinal disturbance, excessive urination, irregular heartbeat, cell damage, dehydration, an impaired digestive system, liver problems, metabolic syndrome, accelerated aging, and cancer. Soda has toxic chemicals-brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is an example. BVO is an industrial chemical used as a flame retardant in…

The project I chose to do is a collage. The purpose of choosing the collage is because it is a great way to show emotion that an essay can’t really show. In addition, to choosing the collage is because I want to show that death (theme) is a very serious thing and I want to impact people’s lives that death isn’t something to be joking about.The whole novel of “Looking For Alaska” is set around the death of Alaska. Part one is called “before”, as in before the death of Alaska. The second part is…

The 1920s in the United States, was referred to as the “roaring twenties” because of the freewheeling popular culture of the decade. During this time period prohibition was one aspect as to what made the twenties roar. Citizens became more devious and wild. Once prohibition took effect liquor trade was brought underground. Citizens attended illegal speakeasies instead of bars. This made the roaring twenties “roar” because it was a dramatic change and forced citizens to act in a different manner.…

Consequences of the Drug War Not only have we not seen a decrease in the number of those using drugs as a result of the drug war, there have been a number of unintended and problematic consequences as a result of the “War on Drugs”. One of the biggest and most discussed issues when it comes to the drug war is the cost that has been put on tax payers over time to fund this. Not only were funds needed to substantially increase federal drug control agencies, the biggest burden that has been placed…

Ford Pinto and Tylenol case The issue surrounding the companies was their products that did not meet the ethical and legal standards. In Ford Pinto case, the company came up with a model vehicle to compete with the Japanese, which dominated the car sale segment. Ford Pinto was invented with its price and delivery low and faster respectively. The car was associated with explosive problems. A problem was detected in the car tank in which the tank was spilling the fuel. This increased the case…

Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which the individual cannot resist the urge to deliberately set fires, sometimes going as far as committing arson. Arson, the criminal act of intentionally setting fires, causes destruction worldwide. For instance, the Santiago Canyon fire of 2007 consumed over 28,000 acres of California and cost around 21.6 million dollars in damage. I remember these fires specifically because I have family in California who witnessed this, the fire being extremely…

Yes, I believe that using controlled fires to protect wild areas are beneficial. Controlled fires help maintain the health of an existing natural area containing native plants and they help manage weeds and other growth, which helps to reduce the risk of wildfires. Fire is one of the best outdoor management tools for invasive plant control. For over 10 years ecologists have been using this technique, which has spread to many other trained people to use as a tool. Woodlands, prairies, and…