These chemicals are taken into the body when tobacco is burnt, smoked, and inhaled. These chemicals have a mood altering affect on the body however many of them are harmful. ... When you try to quit smoking your body, which is used these pleasurable feelings, begins to have withdrawal symptoms. ... Advocates of advertising restrictions would like the public to believe that tobacco advertisements cause young people to start smoking. ... Smoking is a nasty habit that affects your health and many other areas of your life; the reasons for starting are never good enough. ...

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Quitting is so hard to do because the body becomes dependant on the nicotine. Once the individual refrains from smoking, the level of the dopamine and norepinepherine in the brain drop and the bodies react by having a nicotine withdrawal. ... Before starting on the nicotine patch it is important to stop smoking completely. ... The use of body creams and suntan lotions should be limited in the areas where the patch will be placed as it will make it difficult for the patch to stick properly. ... As with all medications, there is a chance of side effects, consulting with a health professional or ...

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Smoking started back in the 1400's with Native Americans smoking plant leaves in a pipe. Settlers started smoking soon after that by using crop leaves. ... Msn.com) Soon epidemiologists started to notice that lung cancer was increasing in the 1930's. ... Nicotine changes how the brain and the body function. ... It replaces the oxygen in the body. ...

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It is a drug that is stored in human body fat. ... That means, if you think you need the drug, and then your body will tell you need the drug. ... The person will start to see illusions, and they will become mentally confused. They will start to have panic reactions and will hallucinate, or see flashbacks. ... It shouldn"t feel like death though, but more like new life, for you get a second chance at starting over your life. ...

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Many people who smoke don't know the effects that they are causing to their body. ... After one has been smoking for a few years, his/her teeth start to turn yellow, skin begins to tarnish, and appearance begins to look worse. ... These days, many young people start smoking very early in their life. ... Once they are addicted they will gradually damage their body throughout their lives. ...

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And if you do start smoking, you"ll be able to quit anytime you want, right? ... It has been clinically proven that the younger you start, the more likely you will become strongly addicted. ... Also, being addicted isn't a sign of weakness - it's a sign that the drug has caused changes in your body that you can't ignore. ... Within two hours of quitting there is no more nicotine in the blood stream but it may take a couple of days for the by products to leave the body. ... Within a couple of hours you start to feel and smell fresher and the taste buds become alive and the sense...

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Our minds and bodies run like fine tuned machines when we take care of ourselves. Doctors prescribe medicines (which are legal drugs) to heal our bodies when we are sick, but dangerous drugs are not recommended by medical professionals. ... Products like wine, beer, liquor are very harmful for our children because their bodies and especially their nervous system are still developing. ... An addict's body craves the drug and becomes dependent upon it. ... Once we start smoking it is very difficult to stop and smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and other diseases. ...

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There are many reasons why some children and young teens start smoking marijuana. ... Teens who use marijuana on a daily basis start to lose interest in how they look and how they react to everyday problems. So far the only long-term effects that marijuana has on your body are lung cancer, asthma, psychological dependence, and immune system damage. ... When my brother finally got caught with marijuana at school it tore my family apart because my parents started blaming each other for what happened and they also blamed each other for not seeing it sooner. ... And ifyou think about using marij...

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Drugs don't do any good to your body they only cause pain. ... He first started to hang with drug dealers. After that, he started to do drugs. ... She told me that her brother started to use drugs. ... People who do drugs get addicted to them, and if they don't get the amount of drug required by their bodies they get weak. ...

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When people start smoking they get cravings to have something in their hands and mouth. ... Shortly after that, the lungs absorb the nicotine and tar into the body where cancer can easily form, and in many cases does. ... However, your body will continue to absorb the cancer causing agents, and eventually your body's immune system will stop fighting it off and you will get cancer. This time your body is weak from trying to fight off the tar and nicotine. ...

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A drug that leaves the body quickly, is more habit forming because the high the person felt when the drug was in the body has suddenly been removed. ... This sudden decrease of the drug in the body makes it much more habit forming, than that of a drug that leaves the body slowly. ... Therefore watching it, forces a person to watch television even more, the start of an addiction. ...

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Soon after rehabilitation started, I learned that my mother was an alcoholic and the problems associated with alcoholism were both physical and mental. ... Your body gradually inherits a tolerance over a period of years and becomes dependent on the drug. ... The physical complications are astounding and to imagine my mother's body and her risks are devastating. ... If you have never seen a liver with this disease, picture a moldy overcooked hamburger patty stuck in your body. ... Her body became so dependent on the drug that when she went to rehab, she could not quit cold turkey. ...

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Breathing becomes very slow, body temperature drops and heartbeat becomes irregular. ... In its pure form, heroin is relatively non-toxic to the body, causing little damage to body tissue and other organs. ... Physical dependence occurs when a person's body adapts to heroin and the body gets used to functioning with the drug present. ... If a dependent person suddenly stops taking heroin, or severely cuts down the amount they use, they will experience physical withdrawal symptoms because their body has to readjust to functioning without the drug. ... So the best thing to do is to ne...

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According to a professional study in 2014, marijuana can lead to some fatal consequences to the human body, mental health or behavioral aspects. ... Short-term use of marijuana may harm the body and mind. ... Long-term use of marijuana may destroy not only the body and mind, but also the whole life career. If a person starts using marijuana for recreational goals when he is a teen, he will become highly addicted several years later. ...

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All three can lead to drug abuse and addiction: Which can ultimately lead to fatal effects on the human body. ... Depression can affect any and all organs in the human body. ... Heroin affects many parts of the human body, including blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys and brain. ... However when you abuse drugs to solve one problem, you are only starting a new problem which can fatally affect your health. ...

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As described in the text "Opium and the Exotic East," people, although warned of the hazards, continued to smoke opium clearly because they enjoyed the effects that it took on their bodies. ... In the text "Missionaries and Opium," the author states how people would start using opium for medicinal reasons, for instance to "cure the toothache" or "to get rid of the headache." ... If the people of China knew what smoking could do to their bodies, their minds, and their lives, how could they possibly be victims of imperialism and capitalism and not their own temptation to abuse the drug. ... ...

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The age at which one starts drinking is a major part of the disease. The younger the age a person starts drinking, the more liable they are to become an alcoholic. This is due to the fact that if a person starts drinking at a younger age, the more time they have to make it a habit. ... Frequently people do not realize that alcohol is deadly and it has serious affects on our bodies. ...

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Most people never consider the fact that consuming alcohol can be just as harmful as illegal drugs, not only on the body, but on the mind and spirit as well (#1). ... Many times alcoholism starts during a person's high school and college years; however some teenagers and young adults frequently abuse alcohol and never think about the physical, mental, and emotional toll that alcohol can have on a person's life (#3). ... Most alcoholics start out by building up a tolerance, causing them to drink higher amounts of alcohol to get the same effect; this tolerance is the starting point of ...

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Most people never consider the fact that consuming alcohol can be just as harmful as illegal drugs, not only on the body, but on the mind and spirit as well. ... Many times alcoholism starts during a person's high school and college years; however some teenagers and young adults frequently abuse alcohol and never think about the physical, mental, and emotional toll that alcohol can have on a person's life. ... Most alcoholics start out by building up a tolerance, causing them to drink higher amounts of alcohol to get the same effect; this tolerance is the starting point of an alcohol...

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. : : Body of the Essay : : Adolescence is the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood; it generally refers to a period ranging from teen years through 20s. ... They get addicted to drugs and start to revolve their lives around drugs. ... Addiction is the disease that eventually starts to plague the adolescents that decide to take the wrong path. ...

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A greater amount of young people have started to abuse drugs over the last few decades. ... Ecstasy has been presented as having little or no side effects, but studies show that its use alters, certain brain functions and also damages the liver and other body organs. ... In one way or another, the use of these drugs alters the normal functioning of the human body, and in the long run they can cause serious damage. ...

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An increased risk for developing cardiovascular diseases as hardening of the arteries, reduced blood and oxygen flow to various parts and organs of the body, heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke. ... But the body usually becomes accustomed to the poisonous effects of low levels of nicotine. ... Most relapses (starting again after stopping) happen in the first week of quitting. ...

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Immediate effects of heroin occur once the heroin enters the body. ... (NIDA) Major withdrawal symptoms can start to occur 24-48 hours after the last dose of heroin. ... When someone becomes addicted to heroin, the more they use the drug the more tolerant their body becomes. ... The use of heroin in 2012 has nearly doubled since 2006, with 156,000 starting to use heroin in 2012 compared to the 90,000 users in 2006....

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Gamers and Addiction When does entertainment stop and addiction start? ... Often hardcore gamers start off playing easy games that do not involve much thought process or social means of contact. ... The last time he logged onto the game was at 6 a.m., someone heard the shot around 11 a.m. and then his body was found in front of his computer logged into his online character. ...

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Legalizing drugs might increase the number of addicts, but prohibition is not going to stop it from happening, therefore I think they might as well quit wasting there time and money looking for drug criminals and traffickers and start spending it on other things such as health benefits and education, things like that. ... Although an argument might be advanced that, drug addiction itself becomes a medical problem, there can be no question that any person who leads themselves (not anyone else) into a dependency upon something that will destroy their body has not committed a criminal act. ...

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