Tobacco Research Papers Samples For Students

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Effects of Hookah Smoking
A hookah is a water pipe used to smoke (usually) flavored tobacco which is specifically made for this purpose. It has various names in various languages, such as water pipe, narghile, argileh, shisha, hubble-bubble, goza and etc. The origin of the device dates back to the 16th century in Persia. Today, hookah bars and cafes are gaining popularity around the world, including Britain, France, Middle East, Russia and the United States. Hookah smoking has now become a trend and Hookah itself has been classified as a socially-acceptable drug, with countries all over the ...

Introduction

Smoking ban refers to the prohibition of smoking as part of public policies for occupational safety and health regulations in office buildings and public places like bars, restaurants, city parks, college campuses and even public beaches. The rationale used for introducing smoking ban was to prevent second hand smoking. It has been estimated that the number of deaths caused by second hand smoking in USA is more than 42,000 people every year including infants (CDC #1, 2014). Since the implementation of this ban has made it a troublesome for smokers to smoke freely in places of their choice, many ...

Introduction

The two advertisements are based on the use of women as figures or means of advertising products in the market in order to attract the attention of both women and men in buying the product. In the both advertisements, it is shown clearly that the women are used as the main channel of advertising cigarettes in the US. The potential and women who are renowned are used in the adverts in order to attract most buyers or customers in order to purchase the product being advertised in the advertisements. These advertisements portray the women using cigarette, and how it ...

Smoking can be considered one of the oldest vices that remains ingrained in the culture of many societies today, no matter as to how it is done or the tobacco used by users. Smokers would often say that they continue smoking because it enables them to unwind from stress, to gratify one’s need after a long day and a practice that enables them to relate to their peers. Studies and concerns have been raised to contradict this act as it is discovered that smoking tobacco can cause debilitating diseases both for the smoker and those near the smoker. However, the ...

Struggles of the New World

In 1606, a group of settlers boarded three ships, ‘The Susan Constant’, ‘The Godspeed’, and ‘The Discovery’, financed by the King of England, King James, and they headed toward what they had deemed, ‘The New World’ (“Britain in the New World”), supposedly filled with prosperous land to farm on and most importantly, gold. These settlers were ordered by the King to sail to North America and create a new colony in the name of England. The settlers sailed to what is today, Virginia, and settled on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay. The settlers were also instructed by the King to ...

- History of tobacco smoking in America
- The presence of tobacco in America dates back to the seventeenth century. Initially, tobacco was grown by poor farmers as a foundation crop. The demand was low and it was cheaper to acquire. However, subsequent wars increased the consumption of chewing tobacco, smoking pipes and cigars. Eventually, the market grew with the availability of slaves. Although slavery had existed long before tobacco was planted, the sudden increase in demand created an unexpected opportunity. The slave labor was incorporated into the tobacco labor force. Moreover, machine produced cigarettes reared its ugly head ...

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Critique of Systematic Research ReviewTitle : Nursing Interventions in Smoking Cessation

Critique of systematic research review: Nursing Interventions in Smoking Cessation
Health care professionals advise people about stopping smoking during their routine practice. Various studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of the interventions provided by health care professionals to smokers about smoking cessation. A systematic review is a methodological review process addressing a specific research question ( on treatment, diagnosis, prognosis or etiology) using explicit methodology of collecting, selecting, and appraising studies and, whenever appropriate, synthesizing results quantitatively( ...

Impact of Passive Smoking on Unborn Babies

Smoking is a well-known public health issue, and passive smoking is considered as the third biggest health threat(after smoking and alcohol abuse). Adverse health effects of tobacco were testified and confirmed in 1950's itself with children and unborn babies were identified as one of the most affected sections . This paper aims to highlight the impacts of passive smoking on unborn children. The author has referred to different research papers that aimed to study the impact of mother's smoking on the unborn, fathers' smoking on unborn babies, and mothers exposure to tobacco smoke at work or other places. The author ...

Smoking has been a consistently rising issue in the United States since tobacco plantations sprung up in the south, before the Civil War. Since the popularity of cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco began to catch on, the citizens of America have experienced a wide array of side effects because of the substance. The various forms in which tobacco and nicotine are consumed cause cancer of the mouth, esophagus, and lungs, which can cause death or disfiguration. Gum disease is also possible, as well as heart disease and emphysema. Most popularly, however, is the addiction that nearly everybody consuming nicotine and tobacco ...

Cancer is a type of disease that is also referred to as malignant tumour. It’s a class of diseases that involves the uncontrolled cell growth and multiplication in the body. These cells develop in the body to form lumps made of tissues and are called tumours. However, not all tumours are cancerous. These tumours are problematic as they disrupt normal body functions such as the circulatory system, respiration, digestion, and the hormonal balance in the body. Malignant tumours are also dangerous because the cancerous cells can enter the blood stream or the lymphatic system and spread to other parts of ...

- Abstract of the case

Dates: Reargued January 9,10,11,12, 1911; Decided: May 29, 1911.

The objective of the case was to ascertain whether the actions of the defendants amounted to a restraint on the ‘interstate commerce in tobacco’. Drawing precedence to a previous ruling against Standard Oil Co., the court was of the opinion that the company has violated the provisions of the Antitrust Act, 1890 on two grounds, by restraining interstate trade of tobacco and by monopolization of the tobacco business. The court reaffirmed that the actions of the American Tobacco Company was against the public interest as it involved ‘combinations’ that attempted to restrict competition. The court was ...

Choi, Kelvin. PhD, MPH, Lindsey Fabian, MPH, and Jean Forster, PhD, MPH.(2012) Young

Adult’s Favorable Perceptions of Snus, Dissolvable Tobacco Products, and Electronic

Cigarettes. Findings From a Focus Group Study. US National library of Medicine.

102(11):2088-2093

Aim of the study
The aim of this study is to explore the young adult’s view on the use of tobacco products and their thoughts about whether they would try these products. Smoking among teenagers is a worldwide issue. There is an urgent need to protect the population from health, environmental and economic factors that exposure to and the use of tobacco causes. The Government is putting measures in place that will reduce ...

Smoking is one of the most disgusting habits all over the world. Undoubtedly, it leads to dangerous health diseases and risks such as high blood pressure and lung cancer. Today, everyone knows that cigarettes can kill, however people start and continue to smoke. Often people begin smoking as teens. It is a way to protest against parents or to be like their friends. In addition, the influence of advertisement cannot be underestimated. Adults smoke to cope with stress and feel relaxed. The danger lies in the fact that the negative consequences from smoking affect non-smokers. For decades, governments have been ...

It is no secret that smoking tobacco seriously harms your health. Although there are fewer smokers since the release of the landmark publication about the negative health effects of tobacco use in Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States (1964) many people still continue to smoke. Why? People who smoke want to smoke and really do not care about the dangers to their health or to others through second-hand smoke. The pleasures of smoking far outweigh the risks for smokers. The futility of making all present and future smokers quit ...

Smoking is a process through which people inhale or taste tobacco substances mostly rolled up in the form of a cigar. Smoking is one the main channel that people use as part of recreational drug abuse with tobacco being the common form of drug that is used. During the smoking process of tobacco, some toxic substances are released that pose health dangers to the smokers and the people in the surrounding environments. Mostly, smoking affects the respiratory system of the people involved in the act or even the people that are constantly within the smoking environments. Despite the health related problems ...

Marijuana is one of the widely used prohibited drugs, with millions of users throughout the globe. Various policies have been put in place in various countries to deal with use of marijuana, but still the number of users continue rising over time (Thomas, Kloner and Rezkalla, 2014). The United States is among the leading countries with most marijuana users throughout the globe; a problem that has spread to its neighboring countries, especially Canada. It has been proposed that legalization of marijuana could have positive effects; but then, this is a controversial issue. On one hand, it is argued that marijuana should ...

General introduction: Historical Background about Tobacco

Cigarette consumption started as early as 16th centuries among the pre-Columbian Americas. However, the natives smoked for medicinal and ceremonial purposes only. The cultivation and smoking methods were completely different as compared in the early 1960’s. The people used to smoke the tobacco in pipes. Tobacco consumption started in Europe at the end of 16th century after Christopher Columbus took with him some few tobacco leaves and seeds. However, its used was largely popularized by such individuals like Jean Nicot who champion for the spread of the significance it had to the users. The main idea of Christopher ...

Phillip Morris, A subdivision of America's number one tobacco company, Altria group Inc, is maker of some very famous cigarette brands of the world. Altria group Inc is one of biggest tobacco companies of the world, headquartered in Virginia, United States of America. Phillip Morris is the proud owner of very famous cigarette brands like world’s number one, Marlboro along with several other brands like L&M, Bond Street, chesterfield, Phillip Morris and parliament. This paper discusses four old Ps i.e. Product, Place, Promotion, Price and fournew Ps i.e. People, Processes, Programs, and Performance of Philip Morris.
Product: ...

Daniel Neal in his essay “Tobacco: Ignorance Is No Longer an Excuse” argues that long gone are the days when the dangers of tobacco were unknown to consumers. Today public health officials know well the dangers of tobacco. They have conducted extensive public education campaigns in order to inform both the smoking and non-smoking public about the dangers of tobacco on a person’s health. Neal believes though that restrictions placed against tobacco companies both in advertising and user’s ability to pursue compensation for damage should be abolished. He believes that both cigarette advertising in any forum should not ...

Introduction

Alcohol and tobacco abuse is a prevalent occurrence among college students. The discrepancy that exists between college students and the non-college counterparts on the abuse of the two drugs is huge. College environment among many factors predisposes this tendency (Alters and Schiff 65-70). Peer interaction also contributes to this tendency especially for the freshmen who would like to quickly adapt in to the new environment and find the niche. Peer involvement may influence the everyday life of the freshmen, which if not controlled will lead to indulgence in drug abuse. This paper would like to explore what has been neglected ...

Mathematics

Abstract
Stopping young people from using tobacco is very important because most of the people who become regular smokers and find other ways to regularly use tobacco start when they are young. Most adult smokers started before the age of 26. Tobacco products are devastating to the human body, causing lowered quality of life and early death. The research concluded that public health messages, especially with television ads were very effective in changing young peoples’ attitudes towards using tobacco from positive to negative. The two must useful campaigns showed graphic images of the impact of tobacco on the ...

The first report from the Surgeon General that linked the habit of smoking to a disease was released in the year 1964 (NIH). Smoking has strong effects on humans both physically and culturally. Determinant laws have been passed that regulate the use of tobacco and smoking. This paper will discuss the various laws that have been passed to control tobacco and the physical and social impacts that result from smoking.
Over 40 years have passed since the report was released and a great progress has been made in offering education to the public concerting the dangers that surround the use of ...

Introduction

Smoking causes around 40000 premature deaths yearly in USA and 4.9 million deaths per year world or 8.8 percent of all global deaths (burns 2013). 4000 teens try to smoke for the first time each day. 1000 teen become daily smokers. Smoking is equivalent to poisoning. Tobacco is a deadly mix of more than 7000 chemicals (burns 2013). Death due to smoking is highly preventable. The causes and impacts of smoking are known and avoidable. Smoking is not illegal in most countries around the world. However, its effects are even worse than some illegal substances. Given these alarming statistics, researches ...

For a long time, smoking was seen as part of the rites of passage into adulthood. Teens were lighting up in large numbers as part of their introduction to becoming adults. Starting in the 1950’s, results of studies conducted on the effects of cigarette smoking began to be published, among which was the link to lung cancer. Tobacco companies reacted by setting up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC) in 1954 specifically to counteract these reports. By the 1960’s, as the public became more aware of the adverse health effects of smoking, the number of smokers started to ...

Modern day healthcare is focused more on prevention of diseases and promoting wellness than in the treatment and curing of diseases. In these disease preventive efforts, the population based intervention model can be successfully used to address behavioral risk factors such as smoking, binge drinking and poor diets that cause diseases. In this essay, the population based intervention model is evaluated in light of the risk factor of smoking. Smoking poises serious health challenges and has been linked to many diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and lung disorders.
The population based intervention model can be divided into ...

Perhaps smoking is one of the most well-known types of using drugs. Since it is legal in most countries, it is very much patronized by people of all ages, shapes, sizes and gender. Young and old alike just love the sensation of having a smoke. According to Health Literacy World, there are various reasons why people smoke. For teens, they love smoking because of the pressure from other friends who smoke, they want to be accepted, or they want to look mature. Adults have different reasons. One of the most common reasons is that they want to get over the ...

Part A: A Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard

The primary stakeholders in the SunCal’s plans are the; Employee unions and Disney. The secondary stakeholders will include; the Backers, Affordable housing advocates, the city council the other individuals and groups drawn by the prospect of reducing long commutes and the Save Our Anaheim Resort District group.
The unions of employees are representing the Disney employees to ensure that they get affordable rental houses near their place of work. The Affordable Housing advocates are representing the employees; they are the voice of the employees for affordable housing. The other groups and individuals support the idea because it is ...

Abstract

Secondhand smoke contains many chemicals, including substances that can stimulate the development of cardiovascular diseases. Regular exposure to cigarette smoke put people at risk of developing various diseases including cardiovascular dysfunction. This is true even to non-smokers, due to the thousands of toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Inhalation of these substances may lead to serious and life-threatening health concerns. Consequently, those who are exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher possibility of developing lung, nasal and other forms of cancer and heart diseases. The toxic substances upset the normal functioning of the heart and blood vessels which leads ...

Introduction

Tobacco smoking is considered to be a major health issues around the globe and is also claimed to be the most preventable cause of death in current time (Borgan, et al. 2014). Tobacco smoking is associated with 6 million deaths per year around the globe and is considered as one of the biggest public health issues by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Behbehani, et al. 2014). Based on current evidence and a report published by the WHO, 5 out of 6 million deaths are associated with direct tobacco smoking while nearly 600,000 deaths are due to non-smokers exposed ...

It has been a battle cry for many health organizations, concerned social groups and parents to eliminate the presence of questionable substances available in the market – namely alcohol and tobacco. Both substances are known to cause negative consequences to its users, which may vary on severity depending on the age of the user and his physical condition upon intake. However, in comparison between alcohol and tobacco, many are pushing for stricter laws on tobacco due to the effects it has on the user and for those who smell the smoke coming from it. Several calls to reduce the tobacco, and ...

Tobacco farming in Jamestown VA

The Indians of Chesapeake grew tobacco which was used in their spiritual ceremonies. The English settlers aimed to sell tobacco in England, although they were unproductive. Tobacco from Virginia had a stronger scent and taste than one grown the West Indies grew, and so consumers preferred a variety which was milder. John Rolfe sowed this tobacco considered to be sweeter in Virginia, and raised a sufficient amount to ship to England. Rolfe’s tobacco sold it at a high price, and tobacco rapidly became Virginia’s main cash crop (Pederson, 2009, p.37). At first, the governors of Virginia dispirited the settlers from tobacco ...

Business Employment Law –

Business Employment Law
Introduction
The world of business exists within specific legal employment laws. All laws develop because of political demands creating policies requiring business regularly must respond to changes in the employment law framework. Three specific areas of the following scholastic research, analysis, and discussion address law and business and the critical aspects of law affecting employment, the impact of law principles, and the distrust and misconceptions of law by the business world about employment policies. ‘Mallor et al (2010) explains how ‘Legal’’ no matter the industry refers to actions and behaviors governed by policies developed ...

While tobacco use among adolescents has reduced dramatically over the past four decades, its prevalence remains worryingly high. Nearly 90% of all smokers tried out cigarettes in adolescence and 99% first started by the age of 26. An estimated 3,800 youths aged 18 years or younger try out their first cigarette, and a further 2,100 young adults become daily smokers. In 2015, one in three high school seniors reported having smoked a cigarette, while 1 in 15 12th graders (or 7%) reported smoking regularly and on a daily basis. This translates to nearly 450,000 12- to ...

Introduction

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that 18 out of 100 US adults who are 18 years or older are currently smoking cigarettes. CDC states that an approximate 42.1 million American adults are cigarette smokers. According to last year’s report on Smoking of the Surgeon General, more than 3.5 million of middle school and high school students in the United States continue to smoke cigarettes. “The burden of smoking-attributable disease and premature death and its high costs to the nation will continue for decades unless smoking prevalence is reduced more rapidly than the ...

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Joon Young Jung
Electronic cigarettes are amongst many products that are meant to promote a smoker to be able to quit. E-cigarettes are similar to ordinary cigarettes in appearance; however, they lack the tobacco ingredients that compose the traditional cigarettes. The e-cigarettes are made up from a metal tube and a battery-like structure that produces a lot of heat to cause vaporization of liquid nicotine. The propylene glycol fluid contains other chemicals that produce the vapor (smoke) that people inhale or exhale (Kaplan, 2015). While the e-cigarettes may appear to have certain short-term or intangible benefits such as lack ...

Does increasing Cigarette Tax Help in Reducing Number of Smokers? To what extend does it decrease smokers if it leads to decreased smokers?

Abstract

Many governments have continuously increased i cigarettes taxes for the last decades. However, governments have been recording increased revenue from cigarette taxes despite decreasing number of smokers. The revenue raised has been used to finance ant tobacco campaigns across the country. Tobacco is a habit forming commodity this makes adults who have been smoking for long not to change their habits in short run. Researchers have given two main reasons for their behavior. First and foremost, the increased ...

Saudi Arabia is one of the countries hit hard by tobacco epidemic and critically require saving. Consequently, a fully funded, sustainable, and broad strategy to control tobacco in such countries is necessary to promote quality health. To manage this strategy, a country heavily relies on the support of trained professionals in running programs aimed at reducing smoking. Sadly and much to the contrary, the health professionals themselves use tobacco more regularly compared to even the general community who they are supposed to care for.
According to our study, most tobacco users regardless of their gender prefer waterpipe as their ...

The last few decades have seen a significant increase in business interest in what is known as CSR (corporate social responsibility). While at one time, CSR was seen as largely a matter of image and a desire to conform to what society is expected, many corporations are now recognizing that CSR can significantly benefit a corporation, including its bottom line. One of the individuals most responsible for how CSR is currently viewed is R. Edward Freeman. Freeman's stakeholder theory of CSR looks at the relative influences that a wide array of stakeholders have on a company's CSR efforts. The ...

The utilization of cigarettes is a major public health issue and is considered a harmful and highly addictive habit. Many different people smoke for various reasons, including to relieve stress because tobacco use can give the user pleasure and calmness. Smoking also harms the people around the smoker as they become passive smokers. Hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed daily with the effects of smoking, for example, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and deteriorated dental hygiene.
Tobacco use is an expensive affair, usually costing the average smoker about $5 a day, $35 a week, $140 a month, and approximately $1, ...

In the West Indies, tobacco was considered a "poor man's crop," while sugar was a "rich man's crop." The reasons for this are numerous, and are closely tied to the socioeconomic conditions of Jamestown in the 1600s. The use of the West Indies as a cultivation center for many cash crops was a significant determinant of the European and American economies, as well as the practices they undertook to gather these crops. The West Indian economy was chiefly centered around these two crops, which utilized completely different and uniquely intensive methods of cultivation. Regardless, they still used significant amounts of slave labor to ...

Abstract

Smoking and nicotine addiction is one of the issues that has been widely discussed and blogged globally. There are several divisive issues with regard to the effects smoking and how the problem should be dealt with globally. The public health officials use empirical evidence to prove that smoking causes problems like lung cancer, sexual impairment, and depression. The cigarette manufacturers on the other end oppose the idea that smoking can be directly linked to any of the three mentioned problems. The responses to such issues include various empirical studies trying to prove the health implications of smoking. This paper ...

Introduction

Tobacco companies are developing and advertising products that they claim have reduced harm on the health of the consumers. As a result of this development, the number of youths using e-cigarettes is increasing at a very alarming rate. Center for Disease Control states that the use of e-cigarettes among the middle school teenagers as well as high school students has been tripling every year. It increased from 4.5 percent in 2013 to 13.4 percent in the year 2014. This was a percentage of high school teenagers alone. The use of e-cigarettes among the youths has greatly surpassed the youths’ ...

The Hazards of Nicotine and Cigarette Smoking

Smoking and Its Effects: The Hazards of Nicotine and Cigarette Smoking
Background
The Tobacco Industry
Tobacco first came to be known when Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, received tobacco leaves as a gift from American Indians and brought it to Europe in the 1400’s. From that time to the early 1700’s, tobacco became widely popular increasing its value to that of gold and using it even as a medium of trade. The 16th-19th century saw the constant bloom of the Tobacco Industry then only producing and selling cigars. But it was in the early 20th century ...

Introduction

During smoking, a substance, commonly cannabis or tobacco is charred and the smoke is inhaled or tasted. Primarily, smoking is practiced for leisure or recreational purposes where substances (active) are released during combustion in a form that they are readily absorbed into the lungs of the smoker.

Smoking is also practiced by some people as it forms part of their rituals or cultural inclinations mainly to induce abstractions or ‘spiritual illumination’; hence those who are part of that coterie have to smoke to be accepted. More often than not, the habit of smoking is increasingly becoming rampant among teenagers as a result ...

Introduction

Nurses involvement in smoking cessation programs helps increase the success rate for these programs
Smoking in Veterans is a major health issue with up to 28.2%of veterans being active smokers a figure that is significantly higher than the smoking rates within the general population

For Veterans, the smoking cessation programs need be tailored to the age, health history and mental status

The Health People 2020 regards tobacco use as a leading health indicator and with prolonged use it is regarded as a maker for lung cancer or other chronic illnesses

Smoking rates have been constant even at tike when smoking cessation techniques and programs have significantly advanced

Discussion
The training and education of nurses on smoking cessation programs and interventions can help reduce the rates of smoking or improve the success rate ...

Introduction

Group behavior is the tendency of human beings to congregate. Humans are social beings, and therefore, they have a tendency to come together and cooperate in the performance of different activities. Group behavior can vary greatly, just like the factors that lead to group pressures. Group behavior is an interesting subject of study in epidemiology, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and many others (Le, 2012). The primary preoccupation in group behavioral studies is usually to understand crowd reactions and how people influence each other in varying situations such as danger, fun, precaution, wrecklesness, and many more. Guillaume, Knippenberg, and Brodbeck ( ...

Abstract

The research paper deals with the problem of whether or not cannabis and cancer are interrelated. There are arguments provided in favor of cannabis stimulating the growth and proliferation of cancer and counterarguments, claiming that not only has marijuana consumption no negative impact on human health, but it also has the potential of being used for medical purposes for treating brain, breast, lung, prostate, blood, oral, liver, and pancreatic cancer inasmuch as it serves as a natural inhibitor of tumor growth as well as providing apoptosis of malign cells. Cannabis treatment may also be used as a legitimate, harmless and far ...

The marijuana legalization issue was first debated over 100 years ago by BIHDC (British Indian Hemp Drugs Commission). This commission resorted to a defined conclusion that; cannabis sativa (marijuana) was detrimental to human health,and the best way out was to impose high taxation to this drug. Prohibition of this drug was inevitable; the best solution was to tax the crop highly. This resolution failed after several years of attempts. Marijuana remained a legal drug in India until the year 1989 when it was phased off by the single convention international narcotics treaty (Gahlinger 2004). Over the recent past, an acute ...

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the problem of smoking in the workplace and determine the common problems and consequences connected with the problem. I have chosen the smoking in the workplace topic due to the fact that it has been on the agenda for a long time. The first part of the case study includes the brief analysis of the preferred problem, influence on the people around you and influence on the health. The final stage of the research will cover the common methods and ways of preventing smoking in the workplace and in general.
Humanity ...

Introduction

Consumption of addictive psychoactive substances can be traced back to the earliest records of the human history. In ancient past, these psychoactive substances were consumed in various occasions: some priest consumed the substances during religious ceremonies; some substances such as opium were used for medicinal purposes; were consumed by the general population as they were socially accepted. People later devised various potent compounds which were easier to administer. As a result of high administration, addiction and abuse of these substances began. As early as in the 17th century, the concern of overuse of these substances and the loss of ...

Introduction

It is common knowledge that there are numerous internal and external factors, which can influence in a negative way development of a fetus. Although it may seem that the future child is well protected, it is not exactly so. The fetus of the pregnant woman can be easily damaged by a variety of teratogenic agents, environment and the surrounding of the future mother.
One of the most urgent questions of our time is reaction of the fetus on maternal cigarette and alcohol exposure. Today a lot of prominent researchers all over the world are examining negative influence of cigarette and alcohol abuse ...

It is estimated that one out of every five deaths in America is thought to be associated with the use of tobacco and smoking is believed to be the leading cause of premature death in this country (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). Aside from the emotional trauma, the monetary cost for the years between 2009 and 2012 are believed to be between $289 billion and $332.5 billion which include figures for lost productivity of workers in addition to expenses for medical care. Smoking, drinking alcohol, and the inappropriate use of legal and illegal drugs impacts society ...

Teratogens are genotoxins that can potentially disrupt the genetic makeup of developing cells, resulting in aberrations that can manifest disabling physical and mental abnormalities in a fetus. Teratogens can cross the placenta and reach the fetus, which quashes the popular belief that a fetus is shielded from external harmful influences. This indicates that the placenta is incapable of blocking teratogenic metabolites from reaching the fetus. Teratogenesis can be defined as birth defects or congenital malformations occurring in utero due to exposure to external factors. Such factors could be environmental, chemical or biological in nature. Factors such as the time of exposure, ...

Introduction

North Carolina State, with its distinctive mix of industries, from biotech, banking, and information technology to the traditional sectors of tobacco, furniture, hog farming, as well as, textiles and apparel is among the wealthiest states in United States of America. The overall gross state product (GSP) for North Carolina in 2010 was 424.9 billion U.S dollars, making the state the ninth richest state in terms of GDP. In the year 2011, the North Carolina’s labor force was about 4.5 million. The working populace in North Carolina is essentially employed across all the industries. North Carolina is a key producer ...

Introduction

Marijuana aka Cannabis sativa is illegal under the federal law of the US. Under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, marijuana is listed as the Schedule I drug meaning that marijuana has high potential of drug abuse and serves no confirmed medical purpose. However, defying the federal laws, California, Washington DC and 16 other states have legalized the use of marijuana. In the US, over 39% people have used marijuana at least once many of whom have later become addicted to the drug. Marijuana addiction is pretty common especially among young adults aged between 18 and 25. In 2004, ...

- A summary of the health profile of the specific high-risk family group of teen-obesity with explanation of the high-risk condition and associated behaviors or patterns.
Income gap in the United States has been a great determinant of the quality of life that is led by many families in the United States. People with access to finances are able to afford quality housing, healthcare and are able to live in healthy environments. On the contrary people who have low incomes lead low qualities of life that include the occupation of low income houses, which in most cases are in ...

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A number of cancer studies have maintained that the various cancer rates within successive generations and mortality shifts for purposes of explaining the prevailing prevalence rates in the country that the variations of the most kinds of cancers are largely reflective of the differences around various environmental and behavioral risk factors. This will include aspects of lifestyle and culture as well as genetic differences. In general, behavioral characteristics that will be as influential include elements of reproductive, dietary patterns, and smoking behaviors, which are known to be major risk factors causing cancer in America as well as other infectious ...

The prohibition of marijuana has for long been a subject of heated debates, arguments, and counter-arguments regarding the effects of such action around social and political circles. Many argue that the use of marijuana makes an individual intoxicated which results in feelings of anxiety, fear, and panic. Others argue that marijuana-induced intoxication leads to impairment of the memory, negatively affecting coordination and reaction time. Legalization of marijuana is believed to be a good thing since it will lead to the collection of larger amount of tax revenues and lower government spending. In spite of the fact that a large ...

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Description of Health Issue
Smoking is the practice of burning substances and breathing in the resulting smoke so that it is tasted and further absorbed into the bloodstream of an individual. Smoking is a major health issue around the world as it causes various diseases. In Canada, health issues emanating from smoking are reported every day.100 Canadians are reportedly dying each day out of diseases related smoking (Smoking and Mortality, 2011). Furthermore, the smoke affects second-hand smokers as well, with 800 deaths being reported from victims of lung cancer and heart disease every year.
Smoking affects the Canadian community ...

The use of marijuana and its legalization have become important issues in the US domestic policy as well as in public debates. The fact that two states have already legalized marijuana for recreational use means that this practice can be applied to other states as well and marijuana can be fully decriminalized. The widespread use of marijuana among people of different ages and their positive attitude to marijuana as legal phenomena of American society make us argue in favor of its legalization. The essay will present main arguments, according to which marijuana should be legalized in the US. These ...