smoking
There are many words that bring conflict to people all over the world, all you have to do is say the word and you can bring all kinds of arguments and debates up. Some of them include: abortion, marijuana, racism, death sentences, smoking, and many more. Smoking is defined as: "to inhale and exhale smoke from a cigarette or cigar (Houghton, 393)". There are over 52.8 million smokers in the United States, however, smoking prevalence is lower among persons with more that 16 years of education (AHA, 1998). In other words, the more education a person has the less likely they will turn to cigarettes. This paper will focus on the current issues concerning smoking and the impact it has on students in college. There are more government bans on smoking being proposed everyday, and the tobacco lawsuits are growing at an alarming rate for the tobacco industry. Cities and towns all over the United Sates are now banning cigarette smoking in restaurants. In College Station, you are not allowed to smoke in a restaurant from the hours of 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. Restaurant owners may worry their business will drop from smokers not going out to eat, but there is evidence that is does not affect business in the least. A rec
Smoking is an addiction, that much has been established in recent years, how does that addiction start? Smoking is everywhere you look, in movies, on television, and on the streets. "Recently researchers at the Dartmouth Medical School reviewed the Top 25 grossing films from each year from 1988 to 1977 and discovered that an astounding 95% contained depictions of tobacco use (Morgan, 2000)". In the Simpsons, you can see numerous characters smoking, even the famed Bart (Lee, 2001). It is unsure if these acts of smoking have an impact on our kids deciding to light up or not (Morgan, 2000). Other researchers say being addicted to cigarettes could come from a dopamine receptor gene (Ma, 1999). People who have this gene, which helps to regulate the level of dopamine in the brain, are less likely to seek novelty which in turn makes them less likely to smoke than people without the gene (Ma, 1999). However, people can not blame their genes on everything, you can choose not to smoke, and there are many organizations out there who are willing to help. One tobacco company is opening up its doors to anti-smoking forces, and has left other tobacco companies scrambling to keep the information covered up. The Liggett Group, who is one of the smallest tobacco companies, manufactures Chesterfield, L&M, and Eve. They are facing negative net worth and hope to relieve themselves of lawsuits by helping incriminate other tobacco companies by saying they are withholding information about the negative effects of smoking from the public. (Greenwald, 1997). "In perhaps the most revealing statement, Liggett confessed that cigarette companies like itself have long aimed their pitches directly at teenagers-something the rest of the industry denies (Greenwald, 1997)". Tobacco giants are hoping to keep the rest of the Liggett papers concealed by the attorney-client privilege. However, that is not likely to happen, but will this new information have any effect on the number of smokers? After seeing the two different groups interact, it is clear there is some segregation, but nothing major. Everyone is peaceful about it, and it really did not bother either group that the other was around. This project made me think more about groups of people and how their differe
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Approximate Word count = 1524
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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