Category: Perspective

How are you? I am doing all right, things are getting a little crazy over here. I miss you and am sorry for not staying in contact as often as I should, just know I am always thinking about you. I’m pretty sure you have read the papers, it is unbelievable, right? Who would dare…

Sleep Deprivation is contributing to weaker bones Bone development is important during the teenage years to help individuals grow into healthy adults. Teenagers use their bones everyday, from walking to class to playing sports. It has been found that sleep deprivation is harming the strength of the bones in the bodies sleep deprived teens. Bone…

Inhaling smoke has been proven to cause a myriad of detrimental effects, ranging from increasing one’s risk to common coughs and asthma to more life threatening diseases such as lung cancer and pneumonia. Knowledge of these ramifications have resulted in the common consensus that smoking is bad for not just the smoker’s health but those…

Exercise is essential to human life. It keeps people healthy, slim, and strong. It is very important at every stage of life. It can also improve people’s personality. When we perform a certain exercise on a regular basis, exercise will keep all our organs alert and the heart will become stronger. Sports are as old…

Introduction Tobacco appeared in our society several centuries ago. For a long time, nobody considered smoking as the thing that literally kills the person, it was more of a prestige to smoke. But with time people figured that smoking causes addiction and health problems, and just recently the antipropaganda of smoking has started. The most…

Introduction Smoking is a common lifestyle and cultural practice since its sharp rise to fame in the 1890s as the tobacco industry was sprung to life by James B. Duke due to the formation of his tobacco company (American Tobacco Company) in 1890 (Sebelius and Koh 2014). This is a staple of cigarette manufacture and…

Poor clinical waste management is a common problem in Africa and other developing parts of the world. Ineffective clinical waste treatment methods put many people at risk of contracting waterborne diseases and blood-borne pathogens (Chang & Wey, 2006). Uncontrolled and substandard burning of clinical waste also increases environmental pollution and exposure to harmful metals and…

Introduction Smoking is a really bad habit that engulfs millions of people each year and is killing many lives despite attempts by the government and individuals trying to stop it. Smoking is the cause of many cancers and causes permanent damage to the human body. So why don’t we change the legal age to have…

When people hear the word ‘addiction’, most people’s first thoughts go straight to drugs or alcohol, but addiction is so much more than drugs. Some people have that one thing they cannot go without. It might be a cell phone, a cigarette, caffeine, drugs, or shopping. No matter what, most people have a vice. Addiction…

The Smoking Ban was introduced in England in July 2007 (with similar bans being introduced in Scotland in March 2006, Wales in April 2007 and Northern Ireland in April 2007). This was introduced as a result of the Health Act 2006. The British government passed this Health Act which brought with it the prohibition of…