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    for years now (Turley 3). If you look at the history of tobacco it goes back thousands of years and still today we have tobacco consumers regardless of the numerous studies suggesting you should not consume tobacco. According to the CDC, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. More information about the amount of harm tobacco causes as well as policies put into play have led to the decrease in the consumption of tobacco. It is hard to balance the

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    Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking and Novel Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease In The United States In a study of the general population of the United States, over 17,000 individuals were examined on the relationship between cigarette smoking and the levels of homocysteine, fibrinogen, and serum C-reactive protein. Cigarette smoking and cardiovascular disease have been linked and the topic has not been studied much. Cardiovascular disease was the cause of death in 40% of the United States

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    What is smoking? Smoking is an unhealthy act in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke to be breathed in and absorbed into the bloodstream. Smoking is an addiction that can be extremely difficult to break. It can cause many major negative effects on a persons life in a short amount of time. Smoking is a harmful and financially reckless addiction that should be prevented at all costs, especially in young teenagers. Cigarettes are made from a variety of harmful substances. For starters

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    Cigarette taxation is the fastest growing revenue in the United States. The article says that about 1.3 billion people around the world smoke, which is really high. All over America, underage smoking is happening, and the government thinks raising the taxes on cigarettes is a way they can stop this. According to the article, if the government increases cigarette taxes by 50%, it reduces the overall consumption of cigarettes by 20%. This is because a rise of price will mean that people spend less

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    benefits of the maladaptive behavior they are exhibiting, modifying factors and probability of action (Bastable, 2014). Reisi et al. (2014) postulate that the Health Belief Model can be a useful tool in assessing predictors to smoking and establishing programs that help promote smoking prevention. Becker argued that treatment and subsequent accomplishment of disease prevention along with the patient’s belief in the value of their health are two assertions on which the Health Belief Model is constructed

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    Did you know, smoking causes more than” 440,000 deaths” per year? (“Effects of Tobacco” 1). That is an overwhelming number of deaths that could be prevented if only the individuals did not use tobacco. As of 2008, East Tennessee State University has adopted a tobacco-free policy for not only the safety of students, but their overall mental and physical health as well. That policy has been increasing on college campuses at a nationwide level. As of 2009, the American College Health Association adopted

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    diseases that could cause by smoking in any kind tobacco especially for pregnant women and how smoking will affect pregnant women during pregnancy and their babies. Problem solving is always the main goal of each dilemma. The paper there will be explanations of how the U.S. are dealing will this issue by creating plans in the future to decrease the number of the smokers. Also, Saudi Arabia are having many free solutions to smokers to quit as long as they want to stop smoking. Keywords: smoke, user

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    that time, they have been perceived as this trend setting drug that will make you super cool. Their advertisements convince the buyers that they would make you more appealing to the other sex, more interesting, and a better person if you would start smoking, and that for the most part has kept up to this day. However, thankfully to awareness advertisements we have become more informed on how dangerous cigarettes really are. We now know what our grandparents didn’t know at the time, that this “super

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    Anti-smoking ads can be found all over the internet and TV . I choose an anti-smoking ad where an African American male walks into a general store and has to pull out a tooth to receive his pack of cigarettes. I stumbled upon this ad when watching YouTube, it was an ad. This advertisement is effective in achieving its purpose of spreading awareness of what smoking does to young adults because it visually shows a man pulling out his tooth just for a pack of cigarettes. This ad uses logos, ethos, and

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    Lots of people want to quit smoking but are too addicted to just simply stop. Ending an addiction is not easy and cannot be done in one step. It is a process and it is never too late to quit. For starters, people have to just tell themselves that they can live without smoking because a positive mindset leads to positive actions. There needs to be focus on where they are and the time of day; this helps

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