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  • Why Teens Shouldn’t Diet

    Why Teens Shouldn’t Diet

    Why Teens Shouldn’t Diet Dieting can be defined as restricting calories or food groups (Deal with Diets: kidshealth.org). With the number of obese people growing, it’s no wonder that people are starting to diet, and “in 1988, Americans spent 32 billion dollars on diets and diet products (Baird: Women’s Health Fact Sheet).” A problem arises when teens start restricting their food, because dieting can be very harmful to a teenager’s still-developing body. It can

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    Essay Length: 1,804 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Janna
  • Compare and Contrast on Teens

    Compare and Contrast on Teens

    Compare and Contrast Essay Some say that high school is the most important part in every ones life. Mainly because of the fact that people change the most during their high school years. One might start to find who they really are in the first year of high school. The biggest changes, by far, happen when a student enters senior year. Interests, personality, and appearance are the most major changes that any student will notice

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    Essay Length: 607 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Smoking in Public Places: Your Lungs or Mine

    Smoking in Public Places: Your Lungs or Mine

    Smoking in Public Places: Your Lungs or Mine Smoking has been an epidemic of the human race ever since it was introduced by the Native Americans to the new British colonist in the "New World." Fast forwarding to present day we find ourselves in the debate on whether or not smoking should be banned in public places. This debate shows the people that there is an issue that many are uncomfortable with and others are

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    Essay Length: 309 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Janna
  • Passive Smoke

    Passive Smoke

    Are you one of 440,000 (out of 2.4 million deaths/year in US) that will die from smoking this year? Lung cancer, emphysema, asthma attacks, cataracts, bronchitis, and death. Whether you pick up a cigarette and smoke it yourself or you get caught walking behind a smoker, you are inhaling smoke that kills the cilia in your lungs. Today I will encourage you to stay away from cigarette smoking so you don't harm your body as

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    Essay Length: 671 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Social Benefits of Smoking

    Social Benefits of Smoking

    Social Benefits of Smoking ________________________________________ We asked hundreds of habitual smokers what they like about smoking. The most frequent answers were: • It relieves stress. • It tastes good. • It makes you look cool (sexually attractive). Relieving Stress Smoking cigarettes relieves stress. We know this because hundreds of smokers that we interviewed told us so. Stress causes: • Heart Disease • Ulcers • High Blood Pressure • Poor General Health • Low Immunity •

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    Essay Length: 2,923 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Smoking in America

    Smoking in America

    Even before the founding of our nation, there were certain things that were an integral part of our society. One of these was the tobacco plant. Hundreds of years before Europeans set foot on what is now our country; Native Americans who were indigenous of this land grew this plant. For hundreds of years it was a vital part of their society. Native Americans cultivated tobacco in North America before the first English settlers

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    Essay Length: 1,846 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Jack
  • Teen Spending

    Teen Spending

    TEEN SPENDING The teen market reaches over 100 billion dollars every year in the US alone. In every family regardless if it's a low or high income family, parents will contribute to the prominence of the teen market. Most teens will usually have one or two sources of income, either allowance from their parents or a job. The answer to this question isn't found by looking at the income of the family or social status,

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    Essay Length: 386 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Carbolic Smoke Ball

    Carbolic Smoke Ball

    Material facts The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company made a product that it claimed could protect the user from contracting influenza. The Company published advertisements claiming that it would pay Ј100 to anyone who got sick with influenza after using its product according to the instructions set out in the advertisement. Specifically, they stated: Ј100 reward will be paid by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company to any person who contracts the increasing epidemic influenza, colds or

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    Essay Length: 353 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • My Believes on Teen Pregnancies

    My Believes on Teen Pregnancies

    My Believes on Teen Pregnancies Teen pregnancy is one of the world’s most major epidemics. This reason being because many teens use it as a way to think of themselves as adults. In my opinion, teen’s pregnancy is a bad thing for our society as a whole. Positively, it only helps the population. My reason for speaking against it is that this is the main reason so many babies are killed due to abortions. There

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    Essay Length: 471 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Thank You for Smoking

    Thank You for Smoking

    There’s something exhilarating about watching a clever liar in full, resplendent flight. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhardt) has what he cheerfully describes as a "challenging" job: he represents the interests of the tobacco industry in a world that generally considers the product reprehensible. At the beginning of "Thank You For Smoking," Nick is getting ready to defend himself on the Joan Lunden talk show, in the company of anti-smoking do-gooders and a cancer-stricken, bald teenaged boy.

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    Essay Length: 949 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Cost/benefit Analysis of Cigarette Smoking

    Cost/benefit Analysis of Cigarette Smoking

    Introduction The overall economic costs of smoking cigarettes has become somewhat of an epidemic in society for a variety of reasons. It includes numerous private and social costs. The private cost to smokers goes far beyond the price of cigarettes alone. Smokers also pay with their health, life, and finances. Alongside the great cost to smokers, they enjoy benefits to the same degree. The total cost of smoking not only effects smokers, but society as

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    Essay Length: 935 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Anna
  • Teens Drug Use

    Teens Drug Use

    Teen drug use is on the rise in the 90's. But one of the most popular drugs is marijuana beacause it is so easy to get and usually cheap. But there are many other kinds of drugs, you got PCP, LSD, Hash, and many others that come from the same plant but all of them are hazardous to your body and your health. Most people use the drugs just to forget about everything, but they

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    Essay Length: 294 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Cigarette Smoking

    Cigarette Smoking

    Cigarette smoking is the greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes numerous lung cancer deaths annually. Measures have been taken in both workplaces and public places to limit exposure to secondhand smoke. The economic cost of smokers to society is phenomenal. It includes monetary costs, lost workdays and shortened work lives. Many states are establishing and maintaining comprehensive tobacco-control programs to reduce tobacco use. They provide

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    Essay Length: 1,417 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Litertature Review, Smoking Ban

    Litertature Review, Smoking Ban

    Literature Review The author has determined that literature related to the new no smoking legislation is relatively recent, due to the date the smoking legislation came into force in the UK (July 2007), however in light of this, not enough comprehensive research has been conducted on the effects the ban has had on the UK hospitality industry. Much of the existing literature comes from countries where similar smoking bans have been implemented. Due to the

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    Essay Length: 255 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Teens and Booze

    Teens and Booze

    THE BEER INDUSTRY was quick to denounce a recent report by the Institute of Medicine on underage drinking. This is hardly surprising, as the report recommended new taxes as part of a broad campaign to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed by American youth. The predictable controversy over many of the specific recommendations should not blunt the impact of the report, an eye-opening document that raises the question of how this problem has gone largely

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    Essay Length: 409 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke

    The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke

    The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke Imagine yourself sitting down to dinner at a restaurant. You are sitting down trying to enjoy your dinner when all you can smell is smoke. Not only are you just breathing in the smoke, it is also damaging your body at the same time. Or imagine yourself at your work place, whether it be a restaurant or office, and you are forced to breathe in second-hand smoke the entire time

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    Essay Length: 1,729 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Anti Smoking

    Anti Smoking

    About 50 million people in the United States alone currently smoke a total of 570 billion cigarettes each year. In each one of these cigarettes there are around 4000 different chemicals, some of which are highly toxic. Nicotine, a main ingredient of tobacco smoke, is the most addictive drug known to man. Two main topics about smoking in general I would like to discuss are the various health effects of smoking and the anti-smoking actions

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    Essay Length: 488 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Vika
  • Second Hand Smoke

    Second Hand Smoke

    The American anti-smoking crusade has been very successful especially over the last decade. With many people trying to live healthy with diet and exercise many smokers have kicked the habit to live a healthier lifestyle. There are now about as many ex-smokers in America as there are smokers. But, even after thirty years of consistent urging to quit because of the studies of the dangers of smoking about one fourth of the population still chooses

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    Essay Length: 2,036 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Should Cigarette Smoking Be Prohibited?

    Should Cigarette Smoking Be Prohibited?

    Should cigarette smoking be prohibited? Argue that the cigarettes smoking should be illegal or argue that the cigarettes smoking should continue at present? Cigarette smoking ban is becoming a controversial social issue. Some people support the opinion of the smoking ban, but others do not. In my opinion, cigarette smoking is an expensive habit and it should be prohibited. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress, the negative aspects of

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    Essay Length: 392 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: July
  • Teen Pregnancy

    Teen Pregnancy

    UNFPA in the Philippines UNFPA began its programme of assistance to the Philippines in 1969. Since 1972, there have been five Country Programmes with a cumulative package of assistance in the amount of US$106.9 million. For over 30 years, UNFPA’s contribution has successfully borne fruit as the organization’s overall vision and framework fitted well with the mission and principles of the Philippine Population Program which emphasized family welfare, rejection of abortion, public-private sector cooperation and

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    Essay Length: 433 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Why Teens Fight with Parents?

    Why Teens Fight with Parents?

    Topic: Why teens and parents fight? Conflicts between parents and teens have been existed for centuries long. When you were a kid parents used to decide for everything you used to do. The clothes you wear. The food you eat. The color of your bedroom walls and so on. As a kid, you didn't have a say in very much that went on; your parents made decisions about everything from the cereal you ate in

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    Essay Length: 615 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: July
  • Gay Teens: Accepting the Unaccepted

    Gay Teens: Accepting the Unaccepted

    Growing up is a complex and puzzling task for every teenager or adolescent. One important feature is creating one’s sexual identity. All teenagers explore and experiment sexually as part of normal development. These sexual experiments may be with members of the same or opposite sex. For many teenagers, thinking about or experimenting with the same sex may cause nervousness and concerns regarding their sexual orientation. Most teenagers have been brought up to think that homosexuality

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    Essay Length: 1,236 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    Seventeen-year-old Mike Emme drove a '67 Ford Mustang. It was bright yellow. He had worked really hard to restore the old car. A gifted student, Mike was happy, helpful, and a young man with a future as bright and cheerful as his car. Friends called him "Mustang Mike." Mike was a kind and considerate young man. He had ordered a brand new transmission for his Mustang, but canceled it and bought two used ones from

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Max
  • Cigarette Smoking and Lung Dangers

    Cigarette Smoking and Lung Dangers

    Cigarette smoking kills nearly 430,000 people every year, making it more lethal than car accidents and drug overdoses just to name a few. A smoker's life expectancy is reduced by 15 to 25 years and is the single most preventable cause of death. With lung cancer being a primary result of cigarette smoking, there are also a wide array of other lung problems that occur as a result of smoking. Cigarettes contain 4000 chemicals, most

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    Essay Length: 666 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: regina
  • Teens in High School

    Teens in High School

    Today, it is rather universal to find young adults working while in high school. There are several reasons why an adolescent might want to, or even have to, work while there also going to school. Throughout the world, it’s not uncommon that you find children and young adults working to help in financing their households because it is a must. However, in the United States, most young adults are easily influenced with the material wealth

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    Essay Length: 557 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Tasha

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