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    group of eighteen years old or older smoked cigarettes. Cigarette smoking is one of the largest causes of deaths each year, which is responsible for one out of every five deaths on average, which could have been easily prevented. The advertisement I choose to analyze is a black and white image, displaying a young women smoking a cigarette, where the smoke from it forms a knot around her neck. By doing so the image brings awareness to the deadliness of smoking and what can happen to a person as a result

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    Cigarette smoking is one of the biggest habits in the world at present. More than 16 million people already have at least one disease from smoking. (CDC,2015) Cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 premature deaths per year, with this number predicted to rise to a shocking 10 million by 2020. (Novartis Foundation,2009) Cigarette smoking is a detrimental habit which leads to Cancer, heart disease and COPD. (Novartis Foundation,2009) I believe in order to improve the health of citizens and increase

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    Professor Fuentes English 1003 April 22, 2015 Ban smoking in the United States Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of diseases and premature death in the United States (U.S.), yet more than 45 million Americans still smoke cigarettes. The health threat posed by tobacco has been accepted by scientists since the 17th century. In 1928, studies linked smoking to cancer. In 1964, the first Surgeon General’s report on cigarette smoking summarized the evidence that tobacco poses serious

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    Reducing Cigarette Smoking among Adults in the United States “I knew that smoking was bad… I didn’t think I would have a premature baby,” said Amanda. “I couldn’t hold her much in those first weeks. It’s time I’ll never get back. Smoking took that from me.” 2 This woman describes the hardship that she went through while pregnant and giving birth. Amanda, like many others, was addicted to smoking throughout her college career and early in her pregnancy. Her baby was born 2 months early and was forced

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    One of the first reasons why I believe that they should make smoking cigarettes illegal in the United States is because you are not only doing damage to your body by smoking, buy you are also damaging the bodies of people around you. This is called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or more commonly known as secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is just as harmful as if you were smoking the cigarette and you still get all of the negative health effects associated with them. Many people are not able

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    I chose to change my unhealthy habit of smoking cigarettes. My measurable objective is that I 'm going to limit myself to three cigarettes a day over the next several weeks. I have chosen this as my measurable objective because I feel that I will be more successful in achieving my goal of quitting smoking if I gradually cut back instead of quitting cold turkey. I 'm going to ask my family for support in helping me achieve my goal by not leaving cigarette packs around the house and backyard. I am

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    Smoking is one of the highest reasons for death as well as other health risks amongst todays society. As time moves on, both smokers and non-smokers understand the harm in this deadly habit as it doesn’t only affect the smokers, but anyone who encounters second-hand smoke. Since people have become aware of the health risks of smoking, cessation tools such as nicotine replacement therapy were invented to help cigarette smokers terminate their desires to smoke. As technology improves, smoking tools

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    Smoking cigarettes is something that many people do all around the world and is a bad habit for many people who do it. Over “one thousand million” people all over the world smoke tobacco according to “Green facts”. Smoking is a habit that many companies and TV channels try to get people to stop doing since it is a dangerous habit. Cigarettes include many harmful substances such as acetone, arsenic which is found in rat poison, cadmium which is an “active component in battery acid” (information obtained

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    Cigarette smoking is a widespread issue that is very prevalent in the U.S and is the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking has been proved to cause cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, yet Americans continue to partake ignoring the consequences1. The transtheoretical model can be applied to understand the underlying causes and suggests possible solutions by evaluating the issue at different stages such as pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation

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    Would anyone engage in smoking cigarettes if each cigarette had an effect written on the side, such as lethal, or fatal? Advertisements pop up on the TV commercials, in newspapers, and magazines that illustrate the reality of what happens when engaging in smoking tobacco, but yet people still smoke cigarettes. Some of these advertisements campaigning against big tobacco companies use pretty graphic and shocking images to convince the population that tobacco is just awful for the body. Health organizations

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