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    than our ability to clearly understand its effects. Many traditional smokers went to e-cigarettes for a variety of reasons: the smell/oder, health consequences, healthcare costs, restrictions as to when and were a user can smoke, the differences in expenses, and smokers were informed that electronic cigarettes were safer regarding the health of themselves and others. Butane is no longer a neccessity when lighting up and smokers do not have to worry about a hot cherry that can burn themselves, other

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    Nicotine is one of the main chemicals that acts on a smokers body because acts as adrenergic agonist which has similar functions to the other neurotransmitters such as adrenaline in the body where it stimulates the central nervous system when absorbed in the body, smoking causes an acute increase in blood pressure

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    smoking cessation (Fucito, Latimer, Salovey, Toll, 2010). When the level of nicotine dependence and intention to quit is low, gain framed messages are more persuasive than loss framed messages (Moorman and Putte, 2008; Szklo and Coutinho, 2010). For smokers with high nicotine dependence gain framed messages seem ineffective (Fucito et. al, 2011). A gain framed message will produce a favorable attitude toward the ad when the level of nicotine dependence is low. When the level of nicotine dependence is

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    2013, 18 percent; and in 2014, 17 percent. Since 2009, the number has been decreasing after stagnating for a few years in the mid-2000s. ANTI-SMOKING ACTIVISTS ARE PLEASED Anti-tobacco activists are pleased with the unprecedented low in American smokers, and cite it

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    Social Effects Of Smoking

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    Smoking, a word everyone is familiar with.From the time tobacco and cigarette were created to today, the total number of smokers are still  booming。On this planet, millions of smokers inhale smoke right now. Smoking could bring good feelings to the smokers but it’s also could bring bad things to them.For smokers, they heard smoking is bad for health, it causes heart attack and lung diseases and many other things, they knew the dangers of smoking but many of them can’t quit it or not willing to quit

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    "Whoa…1,000 dollars!" b. From my Health Psychology Book by Linda Brannon and Jess Feist, it stated that "Currently, about 25% of the adults in the United States are classified as smokers," in 1998 when the book was published. c. Now, considering all of us are 18 or older in the room, one out of every four of us is a smoker. Therefore, one out of every four of us spends approximately 1,000 dollars a year on cigarettes, plus the health damage it will do to them later on in life. d. In America, the

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    productive life years and for mounting needless health care costs. Globally, the preventable deaths caused by tobacco smoking accounts for over 5 million deaths yearly (Wilson et al., 2012). Currently, there are over 1 billion smokers in the world and over 80% of these smokers are living in low and middle income countries

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    & Fishbein , 2010). So, applying The Theory of Planned Behavior on smoking is also conducted in turn to predict the attitude, social norms of personal and cognitive control of behavior affecting their intent to performing acts. The 1) attitude of smokers is the confidence of each individual towards the goal is to give

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    Should Smoking Be Legal?

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    Worldwide, deaths from tobacco equal murder, fatal accidents, diabetes, suicide and more preventable deaths combined. Unfortunately, seeing these statistics isn 't enough for the whole population to quit. The solution to this problem does not lie with smokers but with legislation. The role of the government is that of parent to child, it 's a relationship that has worked well for millions of years prior to human society; of course it is natural and logical to retain and expand upon this relationship in

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    States, and cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among U.S. adults” (3). For the sake of saving life, some universities have banned tobacco use on campus. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln currently allows smoking provided that the smoker is not within the prohibited areas-10 feet away from some buildings and 25 feet from other buildings (4). “The university is the only institution in the University of Nebraska system that does not have a tobacco-free policy. Other Nebraska institutions

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