Essays Tagged: "Emphysema"

Lie, cheat and steal, only for cigarettes

e harmfuleffects that cigarette can cause. The case does state that the cigarette can cause cancer, emphysema, andalso lung cancer. Even if the reader is illiterate it still shouldn't matter .The info ...

(1 pages) 66 0 1.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Cigarettes and Their Destruction of the Brain

. Smokers are well aware of the long-term risks of their habit: such as lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other deadly illnesses. However, smokers are attracted by the immediate effects of sm ...

(3 pages) 70 1 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Destroying Your Health By Smoking Cigarettes

oking cigarettes is one of the best ways I know how to do it. Smoking cigarettes cause lung cancer, emphysema, and the one thing that most people notice right off hand is bad breath. If you are into d ...

(3 pages) 112 0 2.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

The hazardous effect of smoking

d to smoking cigarettesA. How cigarette smoking effects your health1. Lung Cancer2. Heart Disease3. EmphysemaB. How cigarette smoke effects others1. A pregnant woman unborn child2. Non-SmokersIII. Cig ... at have been linked to cigarette smoking are lung cancer, cancer of the larynx, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and coronary heart disease (Clayman 50).3The hazards of these diseases increase with the q ...

(7 pages) 423 1 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Air pollution

pollution causes a number of health and ecologicalproblems. It causes health problems like cancer, emphysema,and asthma. It also causes the depletion of the ozone layerwhich results in global warming ...

(2 pages) 171 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Lung diseases associated with smoking

. Smoking is the main cause of chronic bronchitis and has also been found to cause acute bronchitis.Emphysema,progressive respiratory disease characterised by coughing, shortness of breath, and wheezi ... o polluted air. Children who suffer from bronchitis or asthma are also susceptible. In recent years emphysema has become a serious public-health problem in terms of rapidly increasing numbers of disab ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Tobacco product advertising.

Project - Media Advertisement"SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy." Yes, I'm sure everyone is familiar with these types of war ...

(6 pages) 138 0 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Research paper on smoking

can save your life.I will not recite the familiar litany of smoking-related health problems such as emphysema, mouth and throat cancer, and genito-urinary tract infections. Rather, I will show that sm ... versed by quitting. Smoking is the primary risk factor of developing COPD, i.e. chronic bronchitis, emphysema (American Thoracic Society, 1996). Emphysema is characterized by permanent structural chan ...

(7 pages) 391 2 4.1 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Cigarette Smoking: The Slow Killer

Smoking is also responsible for a plethora of other health problems such as cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and asthma. So why, with the knowledge of these things do over 46,000,000 Americans conti ... ung cancer. Cancer is not the only bodily harm that smoking causes, but one can also get pneumonia, emphysema, and a variety of other respiratory illnesses from the abuse of tobacco. Emphysema is a di ...

(4 pages) 47 1 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Reasearch on smoking

can save your life.I will not recite the familiar litany of smoking-related health problems such as emphysema, mouth and throat cancer, and genito-urinary tract infections. Rather, I will show that sm ... versed by quitting. Smoking is the primary risk factor of developing COPD, i.e. chronic bronchitis, emphysema (American Thoracic Society, 1996). Emphysema is characterized by permanent structural chan ...

(6 pages) 59 1 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Article Pro the Legalization of Marijuana

other hand, tobacco and alcohol can cause strong addiction, cancer, heart problems, birth defects, emphysema, liver damage and more. So why not legalise marijuana too?By legalising marijuana the coun ...

(2 pages) 32 1 4.6 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Cigarette Smoking

ects of smokingSmoking causes a five time increase in the risk of dying from chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and a two time increase in deaths from diseases of the heart and coronary arteries. Smoki ... the risk of:· cancer· heart disease and stroke· reproductive disorders· emphysema· bronchitis· pneumoniaENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE (ETS)Environmental tobacco ...

(8 pages) 100 3 3.7 May/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Business problems, situations, and opprotunities that are ethical issues

le, air pollution has been found to be related to deaths from bronchitis, heart disease, as well as emphysema, and several types of cancers. Studies by the American lung Association have concluded tha ...

(6 pages) 128 0 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Aortic Aneurysm.

An aneurysm can also stem from use of tobacco, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and emphysema, which is an abnormal distention of body tissues caused by retention of air (Haubrich, Wei ...

(4 pages) 37 0 3.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Effects of Smoking.

ause many different kinds of diseases. Some of the most common diseases caused by smoking would be, emphysema; when the lungs turn black from the tar in the cigarettes, and the air sacs inside the lun ... ir sacs inside the lungs loose their elasticity, making it harder and harder to breath. A victim of emphysema eventually dies from suffocation. Lung cancer; tar from smoking begins to collect on the m ...

(2 pages) 62 0 3.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Smoking and its effects

ung cancer and cancers of the mouth, larynx, and oesophagus; chest diseases, such as bronchitis and emphysema; and to contribute to heart disease. Women smokers have a higher risk of diseases of the c ... year old.Today, more than 30 million Americans are living with chronic lung disease such as asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitisIt is estimated that about half the deaths in the developed world ar ...

(6 pages) 60 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

"It's Our Future" A brief argument to raise the legal age of tobacco sale to 21.

3; �PAGE �4� Kenneth BundyIt's Our FutureEveryone will agree that lung cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disease are all unwanted health problems. I think it's safe to say tha ... en, thereby reducing the number of citizens developing various health problems such as lung cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disease. I think we can all agree that is an extremely positive outcom ...

(4 pages) 1268 0 5.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Analysis of an American Tradition: Smoking

nna Smoke?You don’t always die from tobacco. Of former smokers in the US 1,743,000 people have emphysema from smoking Women who smoke increase their risk of preterm delivery, low birth weight, an ...

(4 pages) 26 1 2.5 Apr/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Smoking

The most significant health hazards that tobacco-smoking produces are heart diseases, lung cancer, emphysema, and complication in pregnancy.The use of tobacco increases the heart rate 10 to 20 beat p ... nt/dmk/dmk_article_40081). Lung cancer is now one of the most common cancers found around the world.Emphysema is a lung disease that involves damaged air sacs. The lung loses its elasticity causing th ...

(2 pages) 25 0 4.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Danger Of Smoking

kes ever too closely to home for I am an ex-smoker myself and tragically lost my grandmother due to emphysema. Smoking is a lot more addictive than some tend to think, being much more addictive than t ... and bladder. Inhaling these chemicals may also contribute to Heart Disease, Chronic Bronchitis, and Emphysema. Some dramatically quick symptoms tobacco has on the body are stomach ulcers, strokes, a d ...

(4 pages) 1836 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine