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    The Harmful Effects Of Smoking a Cigarette The harmful effects of smoking are: Lung Cancer Smoking accounts for about 80-90% of all chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ emphysema‚ chronic mucus secretion‚ and chronic air flow blocks. Smoking is involved in 85% of all lung cancer deaths. An individual with chronic bronchitis‚ which is caused by smoking‚ is more likely to get a bacterial infection if he or she is a smoker. A smoker gets more nose and throat inflammations‚ respiratory

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    Jazzlyn Odom Mr. Clifford ENGL 101C (06) 30 September 2012 Should cigarette smoking be banned? There are nearly 443‚000 deaths each year caused by cigarette smoking‚ or one in every five deaths in the United States. Cigarette smoking and even tobacco use has gotten extremely out of control over the centuries‚ everybody smokes! It is unhealthy for your body and especially your lungs‚ it can cause harm to every organ throughout body. Military men and women‚ young adults‚ the elderly and even

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    ENN103F Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned Introduction It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. Smoking should be banned because it destroys people’s health‚ finances and families. Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health of the people. Heart disease‚ bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of rands because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related

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    Cigarette Smoking and its Social Movement Tobacco is a product processed from the dried leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Extracting from ingredients of some medicines and being used as a pesticide shows its strong hold on society. Its name is considered as any plant of the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae family‚ also known as the nightshade family. Tobacco is most commonly consumed as a drug. It is acknowledged as the product manufactured from the leaf used in cigars‚ cigarettes‚ snuff

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    Angie Funes Prof. Cathy Cripps English 97 May 6‚ 2013 Smoking cigarettes should be illegal For a long time people have different concepts and point of view about smoking. Nowadays a lot of people think that smoking is good and helps them‚ but others think that should be banned. “The Believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.” (Ralph Waldo). The question is what is in a cigarette? A cigarette is made of a classic white paper‚ and when it burns it releases

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    | HEALTH-PHILIPPINES Young Lives Up in Smoke By Kara Santos | MANILA‚ Feb 15‚ 2010 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking‚ Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. "The younger a child starts to smoke‚ the greater the chances of becoming a regular smoker‚" said Dr Maricar Limpin‚ executive director of the non- government group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines

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    Health Risks Involved with Cigarette Smoking My visual aid is a comparison model example of what a human lung of a person that smokes looks like and what a human lung of a person that does not smoke looks like. Outline ATTENTION-GETTING OPENER Lung cancer‚ emphysema‚ heart disease‚ asthma attacks‚ cataracts‚ bronchitis‚ and death‚ these are all the common effects due to cigarette smoking. PREVIEW Today I will be informing you of the damage that is caused to the human body due to cigarette smoking

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    commercial comes on and portrays a man with a whole in his throat‚ with a breathing mechanism keeping him alive and a voice box speaking for him. He says that smoking cigarettes were the cause of his cancer‚ which then he needed this surgery to stay alive. After watching this graphic commercial‚ would you be less likely to smoke cigarettes? That’s the argument I am critically evaluating throughout this paper. This concept that I just exposed is referred to as a fear appeal‚ which can be described

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    Smoking is Unhealthy for Everyone Smoking cigarettes is hazardous to the body for many reasons‚ and it also affects not only human beings but our environment. Smoking cigarettes can be harmful to both the environment and humans because of the many chemicals and substances that produce this hazardous product. Smoking cigarettes reduces your ability to do things that require endurance‚ such as sports‚ and exercise. The tar in the cigarettes covers up alveoli‚ which help you breathe‚ which makes

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    Effects of Smoking Cigarettes By Andrew Fowler 21% of American adults are current cigarette smokers‚ making the tobacco industry one of the largest industries in our country. With around 400‚000 smoking related deaths per year in the United States‚ it’s also incredibly deadly. Smoking can affect you negatively in many ways‚ both quickly and slowly. Causes of Smoking One of the biggest reasons people start smoking cigarettes is most likely peer pressure. Smokers typically start smoking around ages

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