heatherhatesyou
12-19-2005, 03:23 PM
smart people only, plz.
i have a paper due in an hour thats about tobacco, i havent been able to finish it cause i just got blazed, im pretty fucked, so if you wanna sorta help me finish this paper in an hour i'd love you forever...peace.
this is what i have so far:
Up In Smoke: Tobacco Use in Teens
It??s remarkable that something as wholly damaging and unappealing as tobacco should deserve its own essay. For all intents and purposes, tobacco should be a slightly comical afterthought, a nostalgic ??remember-when-everyone-sucked-down-those-things-harharhar? breath on the wind. But the only wind we??re getting is clogged with carcinogens, and our breath isn??t strong enough to laugh anymore. So, comedy aside, why on earth do we as a nation continue to puff religiously on sticks of rat poison and tar? Why is there a small (but fiercely loyal) faction of high school kids huddling for warmth out at ??the corner? in subzero temperatures simply to wrap their freezing hands around a Camel? It??s absurd, it??s frightening, but it??s also understandable. We know the risks. We cannot feign ignorance any longer. It??s time to uncover the truth about tobacco??why people start, what??s the big deal, and whether or not it should continue to be available. So stub out the cancer stick and take notes, because it??s going to be a very rude awakening.
Let??s start off with the biology aspect of this debate: the short and long term effects of tobacco use. Tobacco??s main ingredient, nicotine, is the one that causes most of the effects a smoker grows to crave. It is a stimulant that acts to increase the heartbeat, making a first time user report feelings of nausea and lightheadedness. As use gets more regular and the user gradually gets accustomed to the practice, many feel a calming effect. After prolonged use, however, a tolerance to the drug builds and addiction begins. Soon, users need a cigarette just to feel normal, to quell the pains in their stomach or head that arise from not having their daily dose of nicotine. In fact, more than a third of all teenagers get addicted to cigarettes before leaving high school (CDC). It??s a circle of death and destruction that claims 1200 lives each day (tobaccofreekids.org) and has proven almost impossible to stop. Once a teenager has become addicted to cigarettes, they have a plethora of health woes to look forward to. Young smokers especially have an increased risk of immune deficiency and stunted lung growth that will plague them into adulthood. Of course, there are all the other health risks, including cancer, emphysema, tooth decay, gum disease, impotence, heart attacks, stroke, pregnancy complications, and so many more negative side effects it would become meaningless to list them all. According to TobaccoFreeKids.com, ??tobacco use kills more than 440,000 people each year in the United States, or more than the total number killed by AIDS, alcohol, motor vehicles, homicide, illegal drugs, and suicide combined.? Despite all these negative effects, however, teenagers all over the country still light up at an alarming rate.
Now we ask ourselves why. We??ve already learned that over a third of US teens are in danger of becoming (or already are) addicted to a drug that boasts carbon monoxide, radon, arsenic, and other ??fun? additives as its main ingredient??presumably to give it that tasty ??cancer? flavor. This would have been understandable in the 1960s, where doctors puffed Marlboros in their offices and probably thought it was good for you, but this is the new millennium. We??re a lot smarter now about what drugs can and cannot do to you, and tobacco is arguably the least disputed when it comes to how dangerous it is. Kids are subject to multiple hours of DARE and other health education that state clearly the drastic effects of prolonged tobacco use. Nurse offices, gym locker rooms, hallways?all plaster gruesome photos of diseased, cancerous lungs meant to scare teens. There are brochures, websites, ad campaigns, all of which are dedicated solely to preventing kids from smoking. But despite the onslaught of negative advertising the tobacco companies?? face, cigarettes still prevail on the street corner. The easy answer is peer pressure, but I??m a teenager myself and let??s face it, nobody out there is forcing a cigarette into anybody??s hand or saying ??you??re not cool if you don??t smoke?. No, the answer is far more subtle, and far more complicated than that. It??s true that many teenagers smoke cigarettes because their friends or parents do. This isn??t due to peer pressure, but due to the constant presence of cigarettes in a teen??s life. After a while, they grow accustomed to it, and feel compelled to ??see what all the fuss is about?. Many anti-tobacco groups claim that cigarette advertising is the culprit, citing the Joe Camel debacle of yesteryear as proof. But cigarette advertising is currently so limited by state and federal laws that it has a negligible influence on our already media-saturated teens. Perhaps a more accurate explanation of why teens smoke is their natural tendency towards rebellion, and with nurses, teachers, and parents so vocally opposed to cigarettes its easy to see why teenagers would reject those opinions and do the exact opposite. The curse of adolescence is the constant need for independence from the moral views of their parents, and this is just another of the countless examples of ways for teenagers to assert their own identity. Smoking in itself is a community, as places like AB??s ??corner? demonstrate. Kids joke about getting cancer, unite in their addiction, and thrive in their own little microcosm of society where they are different and rebellious. These DARE-educated kids may be aware of the danger they??re doing to their body, but they simply don??t care. Teenagers are furthermore inclined to try cigarettes because their budget allows them to, as they aren??t yet fiscally responsible for much besides the occasional bottle of hairspray or movie ticket. Despite the absurdly high cost of cigarettes (anywhere from 4-7 dollars a pack), teenagers are willing to shell out a few bucks to keep their addiction going. All of these factors contribute to why teenagers smoke, but there is no clear cut reason
ok if you can finish that i love you.
i have a paper due in an hour thats about tobacco, i havent been able to finish it cause i just got blazed, im pretty fucked, so if you wanna sorta help me finish this paper in an hour i'd love you forever...peace.
this is what i have so far:
Up In Smoke: Tobacco Use in Teens
It??s remarkable that something as wholly damaging and unappealing as tobacco should deserve its own essay. For all intents and purposes, tobacco should be a slightly comical afterthought, a nostalgic ??remember-when-everyone-sucked-down-those-things-harharhar? breath on the wind. But the only wind we??re getting is clogged with carcinogens, and our breath isn??t strong enough to laugh anymore. So, comedy aside, why on earth do we as a nation continue to puff religiously on sticks of rat poison and tar? Why is there a small (but fiercely loyal) faction of high school kids huddling for warmth out at ??the corner? in subzero temperatures simply to wrap their freezing hands around a Camel? It??s absurd, it??s frightening, but it??s also understandable. We know the risks. We cannot feign ignorance any longer. It??s time to uncover the truth about tobacco??why people start, what??s the big deal, and whether or not it should continue to be available. So stub out the cancer stick and take notes, because it??s going to be a very rude awakening.
Let??s start off with the biology aspect of this debate: the short and long term effects of tobacco use. Tobacco??s main ingredient, nicotine, is the one that causes most of the effects a smoker grows to crave. It is a stimulant that acts to increase the heartbeat, making a first time user report feelings of nausea and lightheadedness. As use gets more regular and the user gradually gets accustomed to the practice, many feel a calming effect. After prolonged use, however, a tolerance to the drug builds and addiction begins. Soon, users need a cigarette just to feel normal, to quell the pains in their stomach or head that arise from not having their daily dose of nicotine. In fact, more than a third of all teenagers get addicted to cigarettes before leaving high school (CDC). It??s a circle of death and destruction that claims 1200 lives each day (tobaccofreekids.org) and has proven almost impossible to stop. Once a teenager has become addicted to cigarettes, they have a plethora of health woes to look forward to. Young smokers especially have an increased risk of immune deficiency and stunted lung growth that will plague them into adulthood. Of course, there are all the other health risks, including cancer, emphysema, tooth decay, gum disease, impotence, heart attacks, stroke, pregnancy complications, and so many more negative side effects it would become meaningless to list them all. According to TobaccoFreeKids.com, ??tobacco use kills more than 440,000 people each year in the United States, or more than the total number killed by AIDS, alcohol, motor vehicles, homicide, illegal drugs, and suicide combined.? Despite all these negative effects, however, teenagers all over the country still light up at an alarming rate.
Now we ask ourselves why. We??ve already learned that over a third of US teens are in danger of becoming (or already are) addicted to a drug that boasts carbon monoxide, radon, arsenic, and other ??fun? additives as its main ingredient??presumably to give it that tasty ??cancer? flavor. This would have been understandable in the 1960s, where doctors puffed Marlboros in their offices and probably thought it was good for you, but this is the new millennium. We??re a lot smarter now about what drugs can and cannot do to you, and tobacco is arguably the least disputed when it comes to how dangerous it is. Kids are subject to multiple hours of DARE and other health education that state clearly the drastic effects of prolonged tobacco use. Nurse offices, gym locker rooms, hallways?all plaster gruesome photos of diseased, cancerous lungs meant to scare teens. There are brochures, websites, ad campaigns, all of which are dedicated solely to preventing kids from smoking. But despite the onslaught of negative advertising the tobacco companies?? face, cigarettes still prevail on the street corner. The easy answer is peer pressure, but I??m a teenager myself and let??s face it, nobody out there is forcing a cigarette into anybody??s hand or saying ??you??re not cool if you don??t smoke?. No, the answer is far more subtle, and far more complicated than that. It??s true that many teenagers smoke cigarettes because their friends or parents do. This isn??t due to peer pressure, but due to the constant presence of cigarettes in a teen??s life. After a while, they grow accustomed to it, and feel compelled to ??see what all the fuss is about?. Many anti-tobacco groups claim that cigarette advertising is the culprit, citing the Joe Camel debacle of yesteryear as proof. But cigarette advertising is currently so limited by state and federal laws that it has a negligible influence on our already media-saturated teens. Perhaps a more accurate explanation of why teens smoke is their natural tendency towards rebellion, and with nurses, teachers, and parents so vocally opposed to cigarettes its easy to see why teenagers would reject those opinions and do the exact opposite. The curse of adolescence is the constant need for independence from the moral views of their parents, and this is just another of the countless examples of ways for teenagers to assert their own identity. Smoking in itself is a community, as places like AB??s ??corner? demonstrate. Kids joke about getting cancer, unite in their addiction, and thrive in their own little microcosm of society where they are different and rebellious. These DARE-educated kids may be aware of the danger they??re doing to their body, but they simply don??t care. Teenagers are furthermore inclined to try cigarettes because their budget allows them to, as they aren??t yet fiscally responsible for much besides the occasional bottle of hairspray or movie ticket. Despite the absurdly high cost of cigarettes (anywhere from 4-7 dollars a pack), teenagers are willing to shell out a few bucks to keep their addiction going. All of these factors contribute to why teenagers smoke, but there is no clear cut reason
ok if you can finish that i love you.