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    Teenage Smoking

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    Teenage Smoking Cigarette smoking is a habit that kills approximately million of people per year. It is surprisingly being picked up by countless amounts of children every day. Smoking becomes a growing trend in the youth community. The number of young smokers has been increasing in most American middle schools and high schools. Both girls and boys are smoking because they think it is cool. Many of them will take this their trend and carry it for their adulthood. The four reasons that cause many

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    security full time at a computer company located in Norman, Oklahoma. Here, we have a no smoking policy, which means smoking is not allowed, even outside. If an employee wanted to smoke, then he or she would have to leave the property. This policy change happened some years ago, when someone from human resources (H.R.) saw employees standing in front of the entrance, as he or she was trying to enter, smoking cigarettes. Me personally, I agree with this policy. I feel that those of us who don’t smoke

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    Smoking is the one drug that has become one of the most influential drug known in the United States today. Many have smoked at least once in their lives, from the time of experiencing smoking as a teenager too experiencing smoking well into adulthood. What many are not aware of is that by smoking, it not only endangers the smoker’s life but the lives of others around. It puts the risk for others to become exposed to second hand smoke and other forms of health problems. These health issues explain

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    there are teens smoking today. At least 30 percent of adolescents use some form of tobacco. In fact, statistics reveal that the average age for first using tobacco is 13. Despite the incessant advertising and education on the dangers of tobacco use, teens still continue to smoke. So why to teens continue to smoke? Mainly because most of them do not know what long-term health issues it can cause. Teens should not smoke because the use of tobacco causes many serious health effects, and teens that

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    which it could be affected on children and adolescents. The article “Media and Risky Behaviors” by Escobar-Chaves is discussed about the media effects that cause the risky behavior of the adolescents. In the article there are five types of teenager health risk behaviors identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): obesity, smoking, drinking, sexual risk taking, and violent. Escobar also mention those risk behaviors in his article. Adolescents and children who spend more

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    awareness about its ill effects is rising through the corridors of Parliaments of many countries with the help of governmental and non-governmental organizations. There are some internationally recognized organizations like the “World Lung Foundations” that are striving hard to reduce the consumption of tobacco to a bare minimum. There are numerous reasons that support the argument that tobacco should be completely banned from the United Sates. Tobacco consumption is the number one cause of preventable deaths

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    Teenage Marijuana Use Essay

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    Teenage marijuana use is at an all time high, it has been found that today’s teen marijuana smokers are doing so at extreme amounts, some even do so daily. What are the factors that cause them to start experimenting and smoking marijuana? The amounts of marijuana being smoked by today’s teenagers must have an effect on the developing teens. The minds and bodies of the teens who smoke must be facing some sort of developing issues. Marijuana is a mild drug compared to harsher drugs like cocaine, heroin

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    Smoking in America In the United States today, more than forty six million Americans are addicted to cigarettes. More people have died due to cigarette smoking than from narcotic drugs, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War combined (Bailey 1). The annual death toll for cigarette smoking is more than four-hundred thousand Americans a year, and is the number-one preventable cause of death in the United States. If Americans are aware of the lethal effects of smoking, why is it still so popular

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    As mentioned above in the introduction, smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness, the figures almost speak for themselves. Every year around 100,000 people die from smoking, with many more deaths caused by smoking-related illnesses (NHS, 2014). Smoking increases your risk of developing more than 50 serious health conditions, 14 of those being cancers (Cancer Research UK, 2014). Some may be fatal and others can cause irreversible long-term damage to your health. These include diseases

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    Nowadays, smoking is one of the most reasons which are killing people in the world. Most of the smokers are adult. But so many teenagers are smoking too. Some people said that they started to smoke as the teenager. The effects of smoking are common and dangerous but what most people don't realize. Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. There are several negative effects of smoking that make people thinking about should they smoke or not: Health

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