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    Smoking Tobacco and The Government Surprised, criminalized and taxed into submission. Tobacco was once the cash crop of our great nation, upon which are original founders made their mark on history. Yet since the upper-middle class set their sights to smoking in the 1970’s, it has become demonized and socially unacceptable. Furthermore, with the increase of “sin taxes”, tobacco is one of the highest taxed commodities in the United States. The overarching question is, should the government be so

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    The Negative Effects of Smoking Tobacco One may think they have benefits from smoking because they fit in the crowd. Of course, that's not true. Someone may tell you that if you smoke you'll be cool and everyone will like you. Then the crowd that smokes will like you but others may not. Your family may think you are uncool since you smoke. Other friends that you had may start not liking you since they won't want to be around you when you smoke. You might start to rather smoke then be

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    Smoking Tobacco is a choice, it is a freedom given to all willing adults, but it is important to never abuse those freedoms. Smoking tobacco has had a long history throughout the world, so getting rid of smoking completely would be near, if not impossible. However, we should try to least reduce the use of it due to its many harmful effects on health to avoid needless deaths and pollution. Problems other than its effects on health is that it disturbs peace within public settings, it is inconsiderate

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    Introduction Smoking tobacco cigarettes has been recognized as the leading cause of lung cancer and other health related illnesses in the developed world. But there is a new emergence of electronic cigarettes, which can deliver nicotine without the vast range of carcinogens and toxins found in a regular tobacco cigarette. Of course, this is a very controversial topic in which creates a dilemma, some people approve the use of electronic cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco cigarettes. In the

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    Tobacco and Addiction One of the most serious and expensive problems in the U.S. is the addiction of tobacco smoking. People who are addicted to smoking tobacco are teenagers, young adults, and older adults. The number of people addicted to smoking tobacco has increased highly over the last 5 years. Social problems and media are major reasons for this increase. Smokers are every where with their foggy sphere of cigarette smoke. The large amount of cigarette butts that could

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    recognition of business opportunity Tobacco smoking is one of the largest causes of preventable illness and death in Australia. Research estimates that two in three lifetime smokers will die from a disease caused by their smoking. The most recent estimate of deaths caused by tobacco in Australia is for the financial year 2009–10. Tobacco use caused a total of 14,901 deaths in that year (QuitSmokingSupport.com,2016). There are many ways through which one could quit Tobacco smoking like using Medicines or E-cigarettes

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    behavior reflects maleness and femaleness. Smoking cigarette is one of the most common gendered patterns of behavior that is apparent for centuries. Tobacco consumption and smoking behavior pattern have been constantly changing over generation to generation. Moreover, many researches also show that smoking behavior is strongly associated with gender roles (Flandorfer, Wegner, & Buber, 2010). According to Flandorfer, Wegner, and Buber (2010), men smoking prevalence was moderately low in the early

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    Smoking became a staple of Southern United States culture when it's environment proved perfect for growing and harvesting tobacco. With Kentucky and North Carolina “accounting for 71% of tobacco grown in the United States,” it is easy to see how the smoking culture is so deeply embedded and loved by southerners (“Economies”). Since the birth of this relationship in the late eighteenth century, a plethora of research has shown many negative side effects of smoking tobacco, such as: cancer, increased

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    the presence of smoking, nonsmokers inhale second-hand smoke, made up largely of sidestream smoke and also some exhaled mainstream smoke. Pipes, cigars, and water pipes deliver smoke with mixtures of components comparable to those from cigarettes, although there are differences in smoke characteristics across products. Smokeless tobacco is consumed in ways apart from the tobacco being burnt; relevant products are most commonly used orally and sometimes nasally. Oral smokeless tobacco use delivers nicotine

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    Tobacco use in adults: Nurse’s engagement in tobacco cessation According to the Healthy People 2020, each year, approximately 480,000 Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses. Further, more than 16 million Americans suffer from at least one disease caused by smoking. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). The effect of cigarette smoking is alarming. Use of tobacco in the form of smoking is not only dangerous to the one who is smoking but also to a non-smoker. Tobacco harms a

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