5,313 people in Springfield suffer from asthma, and over 5,000 people die every year from an asthma attack. The city of Springfield’s high asthma rates can be blamed on dust mites. Springfield has many older buildings and older housing stock. Older buildings in Springfield have more dust mites compared to the newer building in Springfield because typically older buildings tend to have more of a connection of dust mites, mold, and many other asthma triggers. The ventilation in older houses causes poor air conditions and makes living conditions hard.
Rakel Webb Ashley Goedker English 101-03 Essay #3 Response to Argument Who Is At Fault For Drinking and Dying? LZ Granderson recently wrote an article about who is really at fault when excessive alcohol consumption leads to death. Thousands of people die every year due to alcohol related incidents, and in most cases, the finger is pointed at not the deceased, but their surroundings. A recent story tells of a thirty-six year old man who is at a bar with friends, gets excessively intoxicated, and falls four stories from a stairwell railing. The same scenario happened previously to two twenty-one year olds, at the very same bar.
These problems include cough and phlegm production, an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness, an unfavorable lipid profile and potential retardation in the rate of lung growth and the level of maximum lung function. An estimated 440,000 Americans die each year from diseases caused by smoking. These illnesses include Lung Cancer, bronchitis, heart diseases, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), and emphysema. As well as, of course, second hand smoking that presents the threat of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Many experts will also tell you second hand smoking is more dangerous than first hand, because of the unfiltered smoke containing 50 more cancerous substances than filtered cigarette smoke.
Anemia contains burning tongue, loss of appetite, stomach pain, loss of memory, depression, irritability, tingling or numbness in hands and feet. Stats show that 20% of women have anemia 50% pregnant women, 3 % Men, and 2 of 1000 people. Risk factors a diet lacking in certain vitamins, menstruation, chronic conditions, and family history. Myocardial Infarction “Heart Attack” blockage of one or more coronary arties caused by plaque buildup resulting in damage to the myocardial impairs the heart’s ability to pump throughout the body. It shows that 1.8% of adult population has had a heart attack.
Lowering the drinking age to 18 will lead to under age drinking in bars and nightclubs, which are known to be unsafe environments. Studies have shown that fatal car accident happen after nightclub and bar outings. About 1900 people under the age of 21 die in car accidents related to underage drinking every year.
Thompson Jr. states, “Secondhand smoke is defined as the combination of the smoke emitted by the lit tobacco at the end of a cigarette or cigar…called side-stream smoke.” Research has found that secondhand smoke is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths every year in non-smokers. Side-stream smoke is also included 3,400 lung cancer deaths and almost 46,000 heart disease deaths and maybe even a role in the development of breast cancer. However, children are the most vulnerable victims to secondhand smoke, said Thompson Jr. “About 35 percent of kids in the United States-some 21 million children- live in homes where they are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke.” I am included in this statistic as my mom is a smoker who is trying her hardest to stop. I suffer from many upper-respiratory problems from a reaction to smoke inhaled from
The plague was so severe that it affected almost the whole sectors of life; including economic sectors, personal lives of people, and various others. The Black Death’s most severe affect was on the population. The population of Europe was deeply affected by it as there was no cure for such a disease. The reason the plague spread so wildly was because of the fleas and rats that carried it from one place to another in their skin. Within five years of the arrival of the disease, Europe saw 25 million people die.
BA 6 Passage 1: Smoke is linked with cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illness, and is the leading source of indoor air pollution. In the United States at least 53,000 non-smokers died from being exposed to second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is a poisonous mixture of 7000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and at least sixty-nine that cause cancer. In August 2001, 234 United State communities required all workplaces to be completely smoke-free. Source: Fichtenberg, Caroline M., and Stanton A. Glantz.
Call to Action This catastrophe needs to be addressed now because as you read this, people are dying from multiple types of cancer, blindness, bladder cancer, cancer of the esophagus, cancer of the kidneys, cancer of the pancreas, and cervical cancer. 5.4 million deaths are caused a year because of nicotine; because of tobacco. Every pack of cigarettes has a warning, that it can be harmful to your health. If you can smoke, you are very capable to read. Then why are you still smoking?
I. INTRODUCTION: A-Attention Getter : Smoking causes more deaths then __ combined. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Illegal drug use Alcohol use Motor vehicle injuries Firearm-related incidents B-Thesis Statement : Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. C-Preview : We will examine the history of tobacco , and then the the positive light they tried to portray tobacco in, with finally the truth that tobacco has on this world. II.