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    States. A dry, shredded greenish brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, usually is smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe. It also is smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, often in combination with another drug. As a more concentrated form it is called hashish and as a sticky black liquid, hash oil. There are countless street terms for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, grass

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    What causes cancer? This is a question that people ask themselves on a daily basis. There are major environmental risk factors for cancer in which people are exposed to substances that increases the development of cancer. As we maintain to be involved around the world, the environment has an independent effect on people’s health and health behavior. Cancer is well-known as the major killer throughout today’s society. There are different types of environmental risk factors for cancer which usually

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    Sin Tax in the Philippines

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    Villareal, Peter James On October 3, 2012 To: Ms. Violeta Tabin PREMISES 1. Smoking cigars and drinking liquors are bad to health. 2. Number of accidents will be lessen. 3. Lessen the number of users. 4. It may cause air pollution. 5. It may stop the production of cigars and liquors. I. Introduction Sin tax is a tax levied on a certain goods and services that are seen vices, such as alcohol, tobacco and the like. Sin tax is used for taxing activities that are considered undesirable

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    Marijuana Legalization

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    RACISM, TAXES) ARGUMENT 1: One reason to legalize marijuana is that it is safer than both tobacco and alcohol. Annually, smoking cigarettes causes more than 480,000 deaths in the United States alone, including 41,000 deaths attributed to secondhand smoke. Smoking can also cause lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease, and other potentially deadly diseases (“Smoking & Tobacco Use”). Similarly, alcohol kills 88,000 Americans every year, making it the third preventable

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    cells that grow without limitation. Lung cancer occurs when abnormal cells develop within the lungs, causing disruption to the functions of normal lung cells. Lung cancers are highly due to the consequence of inhaling carcinogenic substances, such as tobacco and arsenic. These carcinogenic substances have damaging effects to DNA. Lung cancer is the leading cause of

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    center point for change. This creates a persuasive ground for this advertisement to relate the deaths of a national tragedy such as 9/11, by playing with the audience’s emotional response to symbolism and statistics showing the true consequences of smoking. 9/11 was known for a mass death toll of American civilians, leaving 2,996 people dead including the deaths of 19 terrorists, leaving the rest to be innocent civilians. Because of this loss, the American government had emplaced laws to protect the

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    drinking and driving, use of dangerous weapons. We notice that these activities pose a risk to others who are not engaged in these activities. But there are activities that pose a danger to the participant who engage in them. For example, drinking, smoking, rock climbing. Since all states follow freedom, the state cannot pass laws that forbid consenting adults from participating in such activities just because they cause harm to them. A person engaging in an activity with full knowledge of the risks

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    cancer related death in the world. Every year more than 200,00 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer and over 100,000 Americans die from lung cancer. Lung Cancer is partly preventable with smoking cessation and it is slowly decreasing in the developed countries because of the many campaigns against tobacco addiction developed in the last decades but this is not the case in developing countries. In addition, we are observing a growing amount of lung cancer in females. (Ferlay et al. 2008), (Le Chevalier)

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    In the United States, tobacco smoking is by far the leading cause of lung cancer, which includes non-small cell lung cancer. About 80% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking, and many others are caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. Smoking is clearly the strongest risk factor for non-small cell lung cancer, but it often interacts with other factors. Smokers exposed to other known risk factors such as radon and asbestos are at even higher risk. However, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer

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    States is tobacco: “Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths, resulting from secondhand smoke exposure” (“Smoking”). Tobacco is killing five times more Americans than alcohol is, but it is legal to buy cigarettes and smoke them at eighteen years old. Why is drinking alcohol seen as more harmful than smoking, when clearly the statistics are showing something different? Drinking alcohol and using tobacco can both

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