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Smoking Tobacco
... the globe want to quit smoking for
medical reasons such as having already two heart-valve replacement surgeries.
Wht did some people do to quit smoking? Some people substituted eating ice-cream
for smoking.
Why is smoking a very popular habit? The reason is you can get them
anywhere. All the stores are selling cigaretes. You don't even need an
identification card to identify your age if you want legal! Almost anyone can
buy them! Yes, the are legal! Nowadays, even middle high school students are
already smoking, and willl even lead to using drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine,
and heroin.
Smoking causes ...
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An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
... headaches and chronic fatigue. The veteran seeks treatment at a VA
hospital, saying his illness is a result of serving in the Gulf. Instantly, he
is denied benefits and services for making a claim that he cannot prove. Why
would the US government want to deny combat veterans of his claim? What is
American government trying to hide? I believe that Gulf War Syndrome is a side
effect of low-levels of chemical and biological warfare agents the troops were
exposed to during their service in the Persian Gulf. I can justify my belief by
the number of ailing vets and Saddam's stockpile of chemical and ...
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
... euthanasia is unethical.
III. Conclusion
A. Thoughts on freedom people have.
B. A quote to end with.
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to
sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well
as useless to resist."
-Steward Alsop, Stay of Execution
Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-mont ...
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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
... disorder is relatively stable through early adolescence (First, 1994, p.82).
The main feature of ADHD is order is a persistent pattern of inattention and /or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed in individuals at a comparable level of development. In order to be diagnosed with ADHD some symptoms that cause impairment must have been present before seven years of age. Also some impairment from the symptoms must be present in at least two settings such as work, home or school. It is very unusual for an individual to display the same level of dysfunction in all settin ...
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The Effects Of Marijuana Use
... followed by sedation and
pleasant tranquillity. Other pleasure giving effects include a state of
relaxation, a sense of heightened taste, touch, smell and hearing, also a
heighten sense of awareness might be experience too. The effects can be
quite different depending on the amount of the drug consumed and the
circumstances under which it is taken. Marijuana has not been proven to be
physically addicting and no physical withdraw symptoms occur when its use
is discontinued.
Second of all, marijuana usage can also have non-pleasure giving
effects. Mood changes are often accompanied by altered perceptions of time ...
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The Best Way To Support Health Care
... alcohol products may think that it’s ok to harm themselves as long as they have the money to get treatment. For example, the person who smokes would increasehis or her chances of becaming chronically ill with cancer of enphasima and they would still feel entitled to health care because they paid the taxes when they bought the product.
Second, an increase in taxes wouldn’t solve the problem because people would still buy these products and get a serious elnes like cancer. For example an increase in tases won’t stop people from buying and abusing alcohol. As a consecuense of buying alcohol, inocent people cou ...
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The Pituitary Gland And Dwarfism
... of dwarfism are Down's syndrome, a congenital condition with
symptoms similar to those of cretinism, achondroplasia, a disease characterized
by short extremities resulting from absorption of cartilaginous tissue during
the fetal stage, spinal tuberculosis, and deficiency of the secretions of the
pituitary gland or of the ovary.
Causes of pituitary dwarfism may vary. Abnormally short height in
childhood may be due to the pituitary gland not functioning correctly, resulting
in underproduction of growth hormone. This may result from a tumor in the
pituitary gland, absence of the pituitary gland, or trauma.
Growth ...
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Cystic Fibrosis
... Cystic fibrosis occurs when both genes have mutations. A
person with cystic fibrosis receives one cystic fibrosis gene from each parent.
The parents of a child, with cystic fibrosis, each carry one nonworking copy of
the gene and one working copy of the gene. The parents are called cystic
fibrosis carriers, and because they have one working gene they have no symptoms.
Carrier parents have 1:4 chance to have a child who is a noncarrier of cystic
fibrosis, a 1:2 chance to have a child who carries the gene, and a 1:4 chance
with each pregnancy to have an affected child. If you have a son or daughter
with cystic fi ...
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Suicide In Las Vega
... spoiled, chipped, or dangerous could be easily disguised.
Yet here, in one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, nighttime
is the appropriate time "to enter."
Exiting is another matter. According to a recent cover story in Time, Las Vegas
has the highest per-capita suicide rate in the country. This coincides with its
enormous expansion, yet the most talked-about suicides -- those of tourists
leaping from hotel balconies after losing everything they had -- are dangerous
myths for a city poised to become America's newest economic icon. In fact,
tourists taking their own lives surrounded by the glamour ...
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Abortion Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
... our concern for the life of an individual human being? The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us who would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry aloud for it's own protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century.
But who in reality is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow th ...
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