Tobacco smoking Summary

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Encyclopedia Articles (8)

Tobacco: Dependence

3,511 words, approx. 12 pages

Tobacco: Dependence In the United States as of 1999, there were about 57 million cigarette smokers-representing 25 percent of the adult population. Another 5 percent (men) use smokeless tobacco (chewi... Read more

Tobacco: Dependence

1,799 words, approx. 6 pages

Tobacco: Dependence Just under a quarter of all adults in the United States were current cigarette smokers as of 1999. Although it is illegal in every state to sell cigarettes to people under age 18, ... Read more

Smoke Inhalation

1,398 words, approx. 5 pages

Smoke Inhalation Definition Smoke inhalation is breathing in smoke. Smoke contains many substances that can cause damage to the human body. Description The most common cause of smoke inhalation is fir... Read more

Cigarette Smoking

2,512 words, approx. 9 pages

Cigarette Smoking The cigarette, a paper-wrapped roll of delicately cut tobacco, has been smoked by humans for centuries. The inhaling and exhaling of fumes of burning plant material was first introdu... Read more

Smoke Inhalation

586 words, approx. 2 pages

Smoke Inhalation Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke. Smoke inhalation typically occurs in victims or firefighters caught in a fire, b... Read more

Cigarette Smoke

1,187 words, approx. 4 pages

Cigarette Smoke Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 identified compounds. Many are known irritants and carcinogens. Since the first Surgeon General's Report on smoking and health in 1964... Read more

Smoking

1,602 words, approx. 6 pages

Smoking Use of cigarettes and other tobacco products to engage in a habit that almost always leads to addiction. Every day 3,000 young people light up their first cigarette; every year a million teena... Read more

Tobacco Smoke

583 words, approx. 2 pages

Tobacco Smoke Tobacco smoke has long been recognized as a major cause of mortality and morbidity, responsible for an estimated 434,000 deaths per year in the United States. It is also a source of indo... Read more

Essays & Analysis (14)

Why Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places

625 words, approx. 3 pages

Smoking should be banned in public places for various reasons. The number one reason smoking should be banned in public places is for the health and safety of people. Respect for nonsmokers that have ... Read more

Smoking: Arguments Against

481 words, approx. 2 pages

The chances are high that children aged 11 to 16 have already tried smoking cigarettes. The probability that a child has already lighted his first stick or worse, is a full-blown smoker is even great... Read more

Smoking Abuse

366 words, approx. 2 pages

The use of tobacco products is common in America, yet tobacco carries the risk of misuse, abuse and addiction. Addiction is a physical dependence, or when a persons behavior is taken over by the nicot... Read more

Smoking's Dangers

467 words, approx. 2 pages

Underage smoking is increasing Australia-wide. Evidence supports that data collected from the Centre for Behavioural Research indicates in 1990, 15 percent of teenagers from the age of 12 - 15 were un... Read more

Why Second Hand Smoke Should Be Banned

679 words, approx. 3 pages

Should smoking cigarettes be banned in public places? Some people may favor having the right to smoke in public places while others feel as if they have to deal with second hand smoke. Everyone is ... Read more

The Risks and Effects of Smoking

809 words, approx. 3 pages

What are the risks and effects of smoking" http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/risks.htm Many times smokers do not realize the high risks involved with smoking. Several of these risks are not even he... Read more

Smoking Kills

778 words, approx. 3 pages

Smoking is a slow process of eventually killing yourself. Smoking has a lot of malicious effects. The smoke produced by a cigarette, not only induces the smoker but also the person standing next to th... Read more

Smoking Kills

1,401 words, approx. 5 pages

Its five till five and it's been another rough day at work. All you can think about now is hurrying outside so you can light up another cigarette. By now you're smoking your favourite cigarette and i... Read more

The Evils of Smoking

294 words, approx. 1 pages

Kenny 6C Why should you Prevent Smoking Did you know that there are 6 million smokers in Canada? The purpose of this essay is to persuade people from smoking.... Read more

The Dangers of Smoking

1,377 words, approx. 5 pages

June 19, 1986, anti-smoking activists are trying to pass a bill in New York that would restrict smoking in restaurants and other public areas, the first major action ever taken by New York to prohibi... Read more

Smoking Should Disappear Like Smoke

877 words, approx. 3 pages

People in our society need some way of relieving ourselves from the stress and pains in our everyday life. Some of us turn to religion, to help soothe our souls from life's despairs, other's turn to p... Read more

The Pandora Pack of Today

528 words, approx. 2 pages

The Pandora Pack of Today! Smoking can make your skin wrinkle and age, smoking can give rise to bronchitis or emphysema, smoking can delay the healing of gastric or duodenal ulcers, smoking can contr... Read more

Smoking: Take It Outside

422 words, approx. 2 pages

Not allowing smoking in the house and car would prove to be beneficial for everyone. There would be fewer accidents from the ambers of cigarettes. Also homes and cars would smell and look cleaner. Las... Read more

Analysis and Action for a Community's Health

1,912 words, approx. 7 pages

Community: Riverdale Riverdale is an upscale community in the Northwestern corner of the Bronx bordered by the Hudson River, Broadway, the Bronx/Westchester county line and the Harlem River. It is a... Read more

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