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  • Compare Contrast Teens and Adults

    Compare Contrast Teens and Adults

    The many differences between being a teen and being an adult are vast. From responsibilities to looks things change throughout your life. For example, as a teen you only have to worry about school and doing your chores at home. Adults however have to worry about bills food the house payment clothes for their child and extracurricular items for the teens as well. As a Teen, many peoples main concern is friends and popularity. As

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    Essay Length: 345 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Smoking and Fuming

    Smoking and Fuming

    FOR far too many years, almost 40, the people of Spain were treated like minors by Franco's dictatorship. But it seems that some people among us still yearn for that era. The new antismoking law in Spain, which went into effect with the new year and bans smoking in workplaces and restricts it in many bars and restaurants, is a case in point: it is a clear example of the state trying to regulate citizens'

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    Essay Length: 762 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Steve
  • Smoking

    Smoking

    Smoking Smoking in public places should be banned. Although some people believe that it is their right as individuals to smoke where they please, they really are not only hurting themselves. Three reasons that smoking should be banned in public places are cleanliness in public places where food and pharmaceuticals are produced is imperative, second-hand smoke is hazardous to those people around the smoker, and there is a reduced risk of fire. First, cleanliness is

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    Essay Length: 638 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Second Hand Smoking

    Second Hand Smoking

    Thesis: Smokers usually move through five stages to quit smoking, and non-smokers have to help them constantly and carefully. Credibility Statement: In high school health class, we have been taught about how smoking cigarettes affects our body. But my school had a different program compared to other schools. There was study session only for cigarette smokers. I took the session for a semester and learned a lot more than I used to know about

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    Essay Length: 513 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Effects of Smoking

    Effects of Smoking

    Effects of Tobacco Smoke Smoking KILLS Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking. One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age. Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers. The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood

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    Essay Length: 312 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • What Effect Does Smoking Have on Society?

    What Effect Does Smoking Have on Society?

    What effect does Smoking have on Society? Smoking is a terrible habit, which 1.2 billion humans are addicted to. This is a terrible habit, and is in no way beneficial to the smoker, nor to the society around him. Smoking is known to be deadly for smokers, as well as damaging for those around them. Many people have trouble quitting the habit, because it is so addicting. However, science has enabled a fair amount of

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    Essay Length: 1,425 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Smoking-Their Habit Your Risk

    Smoking-Their Habit Your Risk

    Did you know that 3,000 American non-smokers will die this year from lung cancer? Those deaths are entirely preventable. Their lung cancer is caused by second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is smoke they have breathed in from other people's cigarettes. It is also known as involuntary or passive smoking. There is nothing passive however about the effects of this smoke. It is lethal and it is dangerous. It may give as many as 300,000

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    Essay Length: 1,182 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Janna
  • Smoking

    Smoking

    Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 440,000 American lives each year, including those affected indirectly, such as babies born prematurely due to prenatal maternal smoking and victims of "secondhand" exposure to tobacco's carcinogens. Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion each year in health-care costs including $81.9 billion in mortality-related productivity loses and $.5 billion in excess medical

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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Top
  • Cliches of Teen Movies

    Cliches of Teen Movies

    Its seems as if American culture is obsessed with sex. From music videos to commercials to teen movies: one cannot turn on his television without seeing a scantily clad woman or two people engaging in some type of foreplay. Even on game shows there is commonly a female co-host who wears next to nothing. Moreover, besides a pornographic movie or a special on HBO, one can find more than enough sex in a teen movie.

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    Essay Length: 613 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Smoking

    Smoking

    Smoking Smoking is the most important single preventable cause of illness and premature death in North America. In the United States alone, more than 500,000 deaths are attributed to tobacco use each year. This exceeds the total number of American lives lost in all of the wars fought since the country was founded. In 1962 the Royal College of Physicians of London had released a significant study, which concluded: "Cigarette smoking is a cause of

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    Essay Length: 719 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Gay Teen Revolution

    The Gay Teen Revolution

    Summer Storm is not one’s typical teen romantic comedy. The German-made film is sweeping into North American movie theatres this month. It features Tobi, an awkward teenage boy, falling in love with Achim, his best friend, at a summer rowing camp. He is befriended by Leo, a handsome boy who rows with the Queer Schlag, a team composed of all gay boys. A heart wrenching and melancholic coming of age tale ensues, in which

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    Essay Length: 2,111 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Fonta
  • How to Quit Smoking

    How to Quit Smoking

    How to Quit Smoking If you have tried to quit smoking, you know how hard it can be. It is difficult, because nicotine is a very addictive drug. One of every six deaths in the United States is related to smoking. Smoking is a proven health hazard, and there are clear benefits to quitting. There is no “safe” cigarette, and no safe level of smoking. For some people, it can be as addictive as marijuana,

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Max
  • 2nd Hand Smoke

    2nd Hand Smoke

    Olivia Rovegno Thesis Statement: Second hand smoke is a cause of cancer. Data: Newspapers 1. "When these new data for cervical cancer are considered in light of similar results from previously published studies, our findings suggest that passive smoking may be firmly linked with cervical cancer," wrote lead author Anthony J. Alberg. "Our study of two large cohorts found that women who lived with smokers had a percent or greater risk of developing cervical neoplasia."

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Are the Teen Years the Best Years of Our Lives

    Are the Teen Years the Best Years of Our Lives

    The teen years are the time children grow into distinct individuals that are energetic, thoughtful, and idealistic. An individual’s teen years may be their best years of their lives and it is important he/she takes the time to live them out. Though this does not mean that everything is downhill once adulthood is reached. There are a great number of things teens can enjoy that adults could not one of which is a close friendship

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    Essay Length: 713 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Smoking Informative

    Smoking Informative

    Quit Smoking Every year nearly one in every five US deaths are related to cigarette smoking, that means that every year 440,000 people alone die from cigarettes. Deaths caused by alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined are actually less than the number of deaths caused by cigarette smoking. Being the grandchild of a grandpa who died of lung cancer from smoking, I know and understand what cigarette smoking can do. Tobacco

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    Essay Length: 708 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Edward
  • Smoking Danger

    Smoking Danger

    Smoking Danger Every year thousands of people die because of lung cancer or other tobacco related illnesses. Everyone in the world comes in contact with smoke from a cigarette at least once in their lifetime, whether it is at a restaurant or at work. Millions of people are addicted to smoking, and thousands more become addicted every year. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are everywhere. Most of the addicted smokers started when they were young

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    Essay Length: 2,125 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Expository Essay

    The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Expository Essay

    This is a quote told by an English poet. A quote that tells you all about habits. In the book The Seven Habits they list seven habits that are: 1 be proactive, 2 begin with the end in mind, 3 put first things first, 4 think win-win, 5 seek first to understand, then to be understood, 6 synergize, and 7 sharpen the saw. These are the seven habits that Sean Covey came up with for

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    Essay Length: 773 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Problem of Teen Pregnancy

    The Problem of Teen Pregnancy

    Teen pregnancy is increasing yearly. According to the March of Dimes, teenage birth rates have decreased steadily in the country since 1991. Teenage birth rates in the United States remain relatively high compared to the more developed countries. According to the March of Dimes, "nearly thirteen percent of all births in the United States were teens ages fifteen to nineteen. Almost one million teenagers become pregnant each year and about 485,000 give birth (Teenage 1).

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    Essay Length: 1,401 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Second Hand Smoking

    Second Hand Smoking

    Many of us would do just about anything to keep our family members from harms way. You or someone you know could be doing it without knowing it or because you choose to Ignore it. Im talking about secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is defined by The American Heart Association as a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of

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    Essay Length: 405 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Janna
  • Teen Drop Outs

    Teen Drop Outs

    1,000,000, this is the number of teenagers who drop out of high school each year. “In several of the largest school systems across the country -- from Baltimore to Cleveland to Atlanta and Oakland, Calif. -- half of the students are dropping out.” (ABCNews). Why are these students dropping out? The reasons are anonymous and exceedingly many. Students drop out for all the wrong reasons. And what he or she does not consider is the

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    Essay Length: 1,225 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • Teen Violence and Supremacy Crimes

    Teen Violence and Supremacy Crimes

    Teen Violence and Supremacy Crimes Teen Violence 2 While both Ricki Anne Wilchins and Gloria Steinem agree on hatred and violence in this world, Wilchins believes that gender stereotyping and society’s ignorance and lack of knowledge surrounding the issue is a constant threat to our kids in school. Steinem contends that gender and race, specifically the white male, play a large role in teen violence and supremacy crimes. At the heart of their controversy

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Teen Prescription

    Teen Prescription

    These days, drugs can be found anywhere, and it seems like everyone is either doing them or has done them. Teens are especially tempted by the excitement or escape that drugs seem to offer. While U.S. teenagers’ use of marijuana is declining, their abuse of prescription drugs is holding steady or in some cases increasing, according to a report released Wednesday by White House drug czar John Walters (msnbc, 2007, par. 1). “The drug dealer

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Adults Are More Mature When It Comes to Teens

    Adults Are More Mature When It Comes to Teens

    Adults are more mature when it comes to Teens. In the United States today, teenagers will have to build the maturity levels and their responsibilities in order to become a successful adult, with a high paying job. The differences that separate the adults from the teens are their responsibilities, self-centeredness, and the jobs that are offered. Although successful adults have some of the same traits they were once immature teens too. There are a

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Smoking or Living

    Smoking or Living

    Smoking or Living "Smoking is the number-one preventable cause of death in the United States." It can lead to many things such as bad skin, bad breath, bad-smelling hair and clothes, poor athletic performance, big risk of injury, and an even greater risk of illnesses. ("How Can I Quit Smoking?" 1, 2) Everyday, Anthony, who is a sophomore in high school and a star athlete, often wonders whether or not he should try smoking. After

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    Essay Length: 1,065 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Max
  • Smoking on Campus

    Smoking on Campus

    Today about four hundred thousands Americans die annually because of the health problem due to smoking. One and a half million people quit smoking a year, but more than fifty millions people keep on going. Tobacco contains nicotine, a drug that is addictive. Once you start smoking, it is very hard, but not impossible to quit. Smoking has several harmful effects on the body. People who smoke for a significant period of time will

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    Essay Length: 1,102 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Fonta

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