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    Smoking rates are particularly high among patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition triggered by a traumatic event (Hawkins & Cougle, 2013). Although the literature recognizes the trends in smoking rates in such patients, few researchers have examined the effects of nicotine on PTSD symptoms. This literature review focuses on the particular effects of nicotine on memory and attention that serve to increase specific symptoms of PTSD. One of the hallmark

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    Survey Results on Smoking in Oman

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    Intro Inhaling or tasting gases or fumes from burning chemicals like tobacco is known as smoking. Cigarette smoking is now becoming a big issue throughout the cosmos and particularly in Oman. Scientist and medical researchers say that the bullet from a cigarette contains more than 4000 deadly chemicals, which could have various toxic, mutagenic effects. The capacity and concentration of chemical elements can vary widely from one brand or type of coffin nail to another single. More or less

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    between smoking and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; which is the abnormal growth of squamous cells on the cervix. CIN is curable; however, cervical cancer is a consequence from it if left untreated. According to Saules study, “Cervical Cancer is now well-established as a smoking related illness” (207), claiming 5,000 lives annually. In the Journal of College health, the rate of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer is elevated in smokers. Quitting or reducing smoking reduces

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    In the article Smoking During Pregnancy is a Risk Factor for Executive Function Deficits in Preschool-aged Children focuses on the maternal nicotine used during pregnancy which has a negative effect on the child. The researchers PD Dr. Monica Daseking, F.Petermann, T.Tischler, and H .C.Waldmann found a strong correlation between cigarette smoking and psychological implications. These children and mothers were studied under the Psychological Child clinic of the University of Bremen in Germany. This

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    Introduction: Tobacco Humans have been using tobacco in one way or the other since ancient times. Use of doesn’t always imply smoking it, but it can be chewed or used in different forms such as Tobacco chewing, dipping tobacco, etc. History: There is no fix time for the start of the use of tobacco in humans but it has been in human use since very ancient times. Locals were using before the arrival of Europeans to Americas. Las Casas brilliantly describes in his journal what the scouts who first

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    relied on planting smoke is way of life, indeed, they use it and trade it. Nowadays, smoking is more diffuse and widespread than far more and earlier than ever before. Smoking has become a prevalent phenomenon, particular he among adolescents, whereas the younger an individual tries it, the more popular and distinguish he might become. Yet, what is the disease festering beneath this disturbing surface? Smoking has numerous drawbacks; it affects our bodies, and our environment, consequently causing

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    Anti-Smoking Ad Analysis

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    The Anti-smoking ad has a set of brown leaves formed as a lung, holding the leaves is a tree stem. In the ad under the leaves you see a person's hand with a lighter. As he has the lighter flicked the leaves are beginning to burn. At the bottom right it says “Your lungs are more sensitive than you think. Stop Smoking” in a white small font. Under that it has the campaign’s name which is “Casa De Euipedes”. The second Ad, Anti-Racism, has a gray background. There is an African American man with a

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    risks of smoking (Doll 1998). Links between smoking and malignancy of the lip and mouth were made as early as 1795 (Sömmering), with more recent studies linking smoking with lung cancer and vascular disease (Doll 1950, Doyle 1962). Smoking was initially an accepted ‘social norm’ in society, viewed simply as a glamourous habit, with little attention paid to tobacco’s addictive nature (Cummings 2016). The concept of physical, and more so psychological, addiction in relation to cigarette smoking is a relatively

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    Teenage Smoking Issues

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    The issues associated with smoking can be imperative to the growth and development of an adolescent. As a high school student many of these stressors affected my personal experience with substance use, as it is known that youth spend approximately one third of their time in school environments (Hofferth and Sandberg, 2001). Despite being aware of the harmful effects smoking has on one’s cognitive ability as well as the health risks associated with it, I was still presented with the ethical dilemma

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    Smoking in public has been an issue for many years. Organizations, and lawmakers together have waged a war against smoking in public. Tempe, Arizona has been a recent battle ground for this war, and many laws and regulations have been passed to deter smokers from smoking in public places like restaurants, bars, stores, ASU, and even their own cars if children are present. Just as social drinkers of legal age are permitted to consume alcohol, smokers also have the right to smoke. Smoking could lead

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