Essays Tagged: "Passive smoking"

Against Smoking This is a persuasive essay and describes many reasons why you wouldn't want to be a smoker.

Against SmokingI believe smoking is a hazard to not only the people who smoke, but the peoplearound them. Wh ... oom where smokeattacks me and my lungs. Then I end up having that awful stench follow me everywhere.Smoking doesn't only make people look bad, but it effects their bodies internally innegative ways.Fi ... u breath, the greaterrisk of a heart attack or stroke, and the greater risk of lung cancer.Although smoking effects people's health, it also effects the way they look. Theskin is effected in at least ...

(1 pages) 36763 5 3.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Cigarettes and how bad they really are for you.

accidents, suicide, drugs and murders combined. That is ridiculous, more than 3,000 teenagers start smoking each day. More than 1 billion packs of cigarettes are consumed yearly by kids 18 and younger ... y will have the equivalent to 1 cup of tar in their bodies in less than a year, this is what causes smoking to give you bad breath. In less than 5 years you will begin signs of aging such as wrinkles ...

(3 pages) 131 5 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Ban on Smoking-Why Smoking should be Banned!

Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco. Tobacco leaves are smoked ... ety of ways. They first go through a drying and curing process, and then may be made into cigars or smoking pipes. The most popular method of smoking is by cigarettes, which are made of thinly shredde ... hich are made of thinly shredded tobacco rolled in a light paper. Historically, it was thought that smoking was harmless, but more modern clinical and laboratory research has proved that tobacco smoke ...

(4 pages) 154 1 3.9 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Effect of Smoking on Breathing, Gas Exchange & Pregnancy

damaging to the body such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and acrolein.Passive SmokingPassive smoking is involuntary smoking by non-smokers inhaling the smoke of others. S ... tte has been smoked is sidestream smoke and this is the smoke that is inhaled by non-smokers. Often passive smoking can be more harmful that actual smoking because sidestream smoke is unfiltered and s ...

(4 pages) 50 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Banning Cigarettes in Public Places

ses each year, three million worldwide. Of those people 30,000 to 50,000 of them die each year from passive or secondhand smoke. Of the many people affected by cigarette smoke, pregnant women are some ...

(11 pages) 231 1 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Ban of smokeing in public places (research for paper)

d helping to change social norms related to smoking.The fact that second-hand smoke - also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) - is too damaging to ignore.The harmful health ef ...

(3 pages) 120 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Chemistry Social Relevance: Proposed smoking bans in South Australia.

ratory illness in children less than 18 months (about 16,300 cases per year in Australia) is due to passive smoking. About 8% of new cases of childhood asthma are attributable to passive smoking (abou ... s and even miscarriage have been linked to cigarette smoke's effect on a foetus. Exposing a baby to passive smoke also contributes significantly to the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome-SIDS.Cigare ...

(9 pages) 53 0 4.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

A assignment about changing a law. Download word document for more (pics and table)

oke while enjoying a day at the beach putting them at risk of lung cancer as well. This is known as passive smoking.Most smokers smoke outside entrances of hospitals, shopping centres and restaurants ...

(2 pages) 19 1 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Do you agree with New York's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants?

All us non-smokers have had it happen to us, we've sat in a designated non-smoking area of a restaurant when suddenly there is cigarette smoke lingering in our direction. Forc ... re is cigarette smoke lingering in our direction. Forcing us to think how this qualifies as the non-smoking section. Well imagine a fine dining experience where smoking is virtually non-existent. It's ... wn that implementing a smoke-free ordinance may possibly boost the overall restaurant or bar sales. Smoking should be allowed with restriction; it should be permitted in designated areas only at the w ...

(5 pages) 144 1 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Ban Smoking On College Campuses

some of the students at risk, I believe college campus' should become America's new target against smoking and become smoke free.When something starts to validate an individuals health rights, issues ... oke free.When something starts to validate an individuals health rights, issues will be brought up. Smoking is something that America has discovered more and more about over the years and has found in ...

(4 pages) 68 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Should tobacco be banned?

easier for people to catch other diseases as well. Secondly, it has been scientifically proved that passive-smoking is even more hazardous than active smoking. In this way, smokers not only put their ...

(1 pages) 13 0 1.0 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Analysis: Smoking

afe, according to studies around 200 Australians working in pubs and clubs are expected to die from passive smoking related illnesses. It is also proposed that the ban will reduce the number of smoker ... ader values, a safe work place. "200 Australians working in bars and clubs could expect to die from passive-smoking related heart disease and lung cancer every year." By using the "study commissioned ...

(2 pages) 54 2 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Cigarette Smoking

my bedroom door. I have told her time and time again that I do not want to talk to her while she is smoking, but she still yells when I walk away. I thought when I left for college that would be one t ... or college that would be one thing I wouldn't have to worry about, but I was wrong.Boston College's smoking policy says that smoking is banned in all buildings including all indoor air space but not i ...

(9 pages) 35 0 2.3 Jul/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

DEVELOPING A HEALTH POLICY FOR SMOKE FREE CARS AND DRIVING

islation as it has been noted that by the The New South Wales and Western Australian Task Forces on Passive Smoking which both conclude that legislation would be the most effective strategy for signif ... he symptoms of asthma in children and also causes coronary heart disease in adults. The exposure to passive smoking in cars were noted to be up to 8.5 times higher among all forms of transport due to ...

(12 pages) 37 0 5.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Do you agree with New York's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants?

In my opinion, New York’s smoking ban is a good start in preventing non-smokers from getting health related sicknesses from se ... there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. The report also concludes that eliminating smoking in all indoor spaces is the only way to fully protect nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand ... of a safe work place just to benefit others rights. One exception to the positive changes regarding smoking involves The San Francisco Board of Supervisors who voted to instruct the police to treat ma ...

(3 pages) 47 1 3.0 Jul/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

The cost and risks of smoking.

ring people all over the world. According to the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) passive smoking increases the risk of lung cancer by 24% and heart disease by 25%. Its explosive res ... %. Its explosive research, released in November 2004, said the majority of research now showed that passive smoking was damaging to health. According to Professor Konrad Jamrozik, from Imperial Colleg ...

(6 pages) 31 0 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Do you agree with New York's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants?

In my opinion, New York's smoking ban is a good start in preventing non-smokers from getting health related sicknesses from se ... there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. The report also concludes that eliminating smoking in all indoor spaces is the only way to fully protect nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand ... of a safe work place just to benefit others rights. One exception to the positive changes regarding smoking involves The San Francisco Board of Supervisors who voted to instruct the police to treat ma ...

(3 pages) 91 2 5.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Ban on Public Smoking in Canada

ll these risks to the smoker, but also to people nearby, who breathe in the smoke. This is known as passive smoking. Passive smoking is defined as "the involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke by a per ... tobacco smoke by a person, especially a nonsmoker, who occupies an area with smokers or a smoker" ("Passive Smoking"). People should only be exposed to harm if they understand the risks and choose to ...

(4 pages) 12 0 5.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Smoking Should Be Illegal

ot important except for the impact it has on other lives"(Robinson). Throughout the past centuries, smoking has become a global past time. Smoking may possibly occur in every city around the earth. De ... the consequences. This puts many innocent lives at risk for a useless cause. Many people agree that smoking should be banned from all public places to benefit society. Every month, a very small number ...

(5 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2013

Subjects: Literature Research Papers