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    Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of death in the United States. Smoking causes cancer in so many people. Over 90% of all lung cancer in men and women are caused by smoking tobacco. Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following combined: Illegal drug use, alcohol use, HIV, motor vehicles, and many more. More than ten times as many US citizens have died from smoking than have died in wars fought by US in history. So, the real question is, “Why do people still smoke cigarettes, knowing

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    cook it or it will be difficult later on. While the meats are defrosting, find a cutting board, one large bowl (set aside), a decently sharp knife, and a large container to place the sushi into once it is prepared. Now you will need to start your smoker, set the temperature for around two hundred degrees. Now let’s begin chopping the onions into finely diced pieces. When the meat is defrosted find the large

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    Seven million of these deaths would be in poor countries. It is estimated that half of all smokers die from diseases related to the consumption of tobacco and live an average of ten to fifteen years less than non-smokers. The consumption of cigarettes negatively impact the health of smokers and nonsmokers exposed. In this section we will focus in the negative heath effects of consumption in smokers. The consequences of tobacco consumption to the health appeared in the early twentieth century

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    asthma (Health on the Horizon Tulsa County 2014). Of the top 10 causes of death for Tulsa, 5 are directly credited to smoking. In the state of Oklahoma, 24.7% of the adult population (aged 18+ years)—over 677,000 individuals—are current cigarette smokers. Across all states, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adult’s ranges from 9.3% to 26.5%. Oklahoma ranks 47th among the states (State Highlights Oklahoma 2011). Tulsa’s smoking community has a 24.6 percentage for smoking making the city relative

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    have 201,773 deaths accoriding to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention.) Although some smokers still live, they suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system disease, and many more harmful effects of smoking cigarettres and other tobacco related products.According to Dr. Robert N Procter “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation.”Smokers are aware of the constent damages of smoking due to advertisements, warning labels, and much more,

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    cigarettes satisfy smokers’ needs to fulfill certain smoking rituals. Electronic cigarettes may be able to quench certain urges and cravings due to its design, which can also assist in fulfilling the habitual dependence of smokers (Patrounova, 2015). Smoking cessation is an incredibly difficult and repetitive endeavor, which has increased the motivation for developing effective nicotine replacement therapies. Electronic cigarettes have emerged as a new and popular method for smokers to attempt to reduce

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    see naughty words on ramps, and smokers could be around. Finally, it can cause distractions for the people that live across the street. In my opinion, I believe that communities should not build skate parks. In the first place, government`s should

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    cause of death in 40% of the United States in 1999. Stroke, congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, and peripheral vascular disease can also result from cigarette smoking. In the study, there were “4,187 current smokers, 4,791 former smokers, and 8,375 never-smokers” eighteen or older participating from the years 1988 and 1994. Three thousand people were excluded from the study because their C-reactive proteins had little information. This left 16,596 people in the study for C-reactive

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    Nowadays, smoking is one of the most reasons which are killing people in the world. Most of the smokers are adult. But so many teenagers are smoking too. Some people said that they started to smoke as the teenager. The effects of smoking are common and dangerous but what most people don't realize. Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. There are several negative effects of smoking that make people thinking about should they smoke or not: Health

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    to underage smokers.” This was the result of an electronic search of millions of documents published, as a result of a legal agreement, by cigarette companies. Although companies legally could no longer market to youths, they simply changed their terminology, “several documents indicate that the shift away from the use of the term ‘youth’ in internal correspondence was a matter of policy … when describing the low-age end of the cigarette business please use the term `young adult smoker ' or `young

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