Irrational basis: the legal status of medical marijuana. Hastings Center Report, 39(6), 7-8. Furler, M., Einarson, T., Millson, M., Walmsley, S., & Bendayan, R. (2004). Medicinal and recreational marijuana use by patients infected with HIV. AIDS Patient Care & Stds, 18(4), 215-228.
Name Professor English 102 6 March 2013 Coronary Heart Disease: A Behavioral Pattern In this article, the American journal of public health published in the 2012 journal, the risk factors associated with coronary heart disease. According to professor Petticrew, It was explained by cardiologist Meyer Firedman and Ray Rosenman who debated that the type A behavioral pattern was a risk factor linked to coronary heart disease. Firedman and Rosenman examined and evaluated the tobacco industry and found out that it was the major founder of type A behavioral pattern research. Coronary heart disease is known as a condition whereby the arteries transporting blood to the heart muscle is narrowed mainly by fat also known as plaque. Mark Petticrew the author of Type A Behavioral pattern and coronary heart disease, is a professor of public health evaluation in the department of social and environmental health research at London school of hygiene and tropical medicine.
Around 50,000 people per year die from secondhand smoke. If the production and sale of cigarettes alone were banned, then hundreds of thousands of lives would be prolonged and saved; approximately 450,000 lives per year (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids). Smoking is the number one cause of death due to lung cancer, emphysema, and other life-threatening diseases (ALA). If the cause of disease and cancer was completely eliminated from the United States, then the problem would be solved. If tobacco was eliminated people’s outer appearances would also improve.
SOSC 2330 THE ECONOMICS OF LAW, POLICY AND ORGANISATION. Smoking costs governments millions of dollars because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related problems. Tobacco consumption is by far the leading cause of premature deaths and deceases in Canada. According to Health Canada more than 37,000 people will die this year due to smoking. Of those, more than 300 non-smokers will die of lung cancer and at least 700 non-smokers will die of coronary heart disease caused by exposure to second-hand smoke.
Asthma and its Various Treatments Amanda Moore BIO-2012-VO01 September 23, 2013 Robert Lehr Mandie – Thanks for the title page – few did that! You need to look at the link below to get a better grasp on the APA reference style. Other than that and the comment below you should be good. Asthma and its Various Treatments Annotated Bibliography Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Asthma, August, 2013. This was obtained on September 30, 2013 from: http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/ “Asthma is a disease that affects your lungs.
Every 443,000 Americans (over 18 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year. Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them. You know that Smoking is bad for you then why are you Smoking? There are a lot of reasons why you shouldn’t smoke. Some of them are that smoking affects your health, that you spend a lot of
This is only one example of the extreme health risks that people impose on themselves when they smoke. When most people think of the health risks of smoking, they automatically think of cancer. There are other serious illnesses contracted from smoking such as aneurysms, bronchitis, heart disease, and strokes. The truth is that cancer is only one of over 65 diseases that kill smokers today. Smoking not only causes the body long-term
Our Mission and Vision. Retrieved from http://www.mpp.org/ about /mission-statement.html 5.Sidney, S. (2003). Comparing cannabis with tobacco—again. British Medical Journal, 327, 635-636. Retrieved from
Smoking has so many harms, one of which is death: “The leading causes of the approximately 430,000 smoking-related deaths each year are lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and ischemic heart disease.” (smoking, 2008). Smoking isn’t only bad for the smoker but for the people around smokers. Scientists have found that secondhand smoking and even third-hand smoking can be just as harmful as first hand smoking because “A nonsmoker who breathes secondhand smoke (such as the smoke from a lit cigarette) is at an increased risk of the same diseases that affect smokers.” (smoking, 2010). It’s also said that second-hand smoke increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Over all “Smoking is considered a health
Everyone knows the dangers of smoking – 1 in 10 deaths worldwide is from a smoking-related disease, according to the World Health Organization. But exposure to tobacco fumes kills 600,000 nonsmokers a year worldwide, including 165,000 children, according to a December 2010 WHO study. That’s about 1 out of every 100 deaths worldwide, through smoke-related illnesses such as heart disease, lower respiratory infections, asthma and lung cancer. The fumes are harder to avoid than you think: They can