A girl that I grew up with and thought I knew everything about. "A puff here and there will do me no harm,"" she used to always tell me. The smartest girl in school turned into the biggest "pothead-. A "binger-, "junkie-, or "feener-, they called her. What could I do? As her habit got worse, I already saw her priorities changing, her worries did not associated with math or English anymore, but focused primarily on how many zigzags she had in her pocket. Her nave innocence, stupidity, and immature behavior, led her to her destined downfall. .
The dangers of marijuana were not visible to the nave girl who effortlessly walked into a world of drugs and to her, tranquility. Like the flyers that sucked the soldiers into joining the world war, promising great things and promoting heroism; like a young child handed a lollipop from a complete stranger; and like the magicians we see on the street; Joanna was conned. I remember smelling the stench of weed, heavily covered with lemon airfreshner and perfume, when she floated by me in the hallways. Her body was so light, and her head bobbled about like the jack in the box figurine you see in commercials. Stoned, ripped, cracked out, tripper, high, blazed and smoked up is the terminology used to describer her state of condition almost 24 hours a day. Red-eyed and carrying chocolate cookies she would stumble into class 10 minutes before the bell rang. Until one day she was expelled. An unknown student reported that her chocolate cookies were actually baked with marijuana inside. I was bawling when I heard this news, not because she was leaving my school, but because I knew I was going to lose my best friend.
When we were young we both understood the hazards of alcohol and drugs, but with all that knowledge her curiosity and stupidity still led her to experiment. I felt so helpless. I did everything I could from telling her parents about her problem, to taping drug awareness poster all over her room.
After his father death Sean mother, Janice move Sean and his sister, Keisha to safer environment in Mount Vernon, New York. ... Sean was now using the name "Puff Daddy". Puff Daddy had gig plans for the Notorious B.I.G. next album, but Puff lost his close friend B.I.G. to gunshots. Puff's reaction to B.I.G.'s death was to quit the music business, but friends talked him out it. ...
The product responsible for the leading cause of death, killing more people than AIDS, murder, suicide, fires, alcohol and illegal drugs combined, can be purchased at any local convenient store. ... Imagine people buying tiny sticks filled with cancer, and puffing them down, to slowly kill their bodies. ... When a cigarette is lit and a puff is drawn in, "the temperature reaches to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit acting as a tiny blast furnace that turns into a chemical plant, which uses the hundreds of available materials to produce many more(www.biology.arizona.edu)." ... And what I found the m...
Automatic tobacco-puffing machines have been invented to collect and to study the smoke. ... During the burning process of tobacco the tip of the burning cone (the center of the pipe, cigarette, and or cigar) reaches a temperature of nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit during a puff. ... The average smoker inhales ten two-second puffs of mainstream smoke from the tobacco product they are smoking. ... The calculations yield an estimated United States annual total of 3,000 lung cancer deaths, 11,000 deaths from other cancers, and 32,000 deaths from heart disease, giving a combined total of 46,000 de...
It was featured on Combs new album: "Puff Daddy and the Family-. ... All of the Bad Boy albums that year such as Biggie Small's "Life After Death,"" Combs own record with the Family, "No Way Out,"" and MA$E's debut, "Harlem World- "offer standard gangsta topics: songs about wealth and materialism, harsh ghetto life, the threat of violence and explicit sexuality. ... Such expansive borrowing has given Puffy Combs and Bad Boy a friendly, non-threatening air, allowing their raps to be cheerful boasting, rather than the nihilistic, violence-filled raps of their California-based riva...
Environmental Protection agency is responsible for about 3,000 lung cancer deaths each year among non-smokers in the U.S. ... Sudden infant death syndrome. On the other hand, SIDS is the major cause of deaths in the U.S. in infants between the ages of 1 month and 1 year. ... Typically, a smoker takes ten puffs a cigarette, two seconds per puff and over the course of the ten or so minutes a cigarette is burning. ... Emphysema is one of the most common of the group. 82 percent of all deaths are caused by smoking. ...
(Facts,1) Seen puffing the dried leaves, A horrified Spanish Inquisition Imprisoned him for life on charges of being possessed by the devil.... It is in fact impossible to smoke yourself to death by overdosing. ... The Cigarette industry itself, also known as the merchants of death, is the manufacturer of the of the product causing over half a million deaths and rising each year. ... (Facts,3) These facts make tobacco smoke the leading preventable death in America.... After the first puff of a cigarette, there are 4,000 some chemicals and tobacco bi-products that enter every part of your body ...
The Death of Notorious B.I.G The death of the Notorious B.I.G in March of 1997, was a tragedy that devastated the rap/ hip-hop industry. Since Biggie was assassinated six months after Tupac Shakur, his death was reported in many newspapers and magazines, each giving its own view on his death. ... Leland also implies that Biggie's death was the cause of street gang rivalry he states, "Knight [ Suge Knight CEO of Death Row Records, and suppose to be linked to Biggie's murder] is a former NFL hopeful linked to the Bloods street gang"(Leland 74). The "Bloods " are a rival gang...
People all over the world smoke, and dont realize or dont care that smoking is one of the most leading causes of death in the US and the world. ... Smoking is one of the most leading causes of death. ... It just seems like cigarette companies dont even care about the deaths caused by smoking, they always seem to find some excuse to get out of it. ... Also, smoking low-tar or low-nicotine cigarettes usually isnt very effective considering your likely to puff longer and harder on each cigarette. ... It also causes deaths all over the world. ...
The Toll of Tobacco use in Pennsylvania More people die every year from smoking cigarettes than the total number combined of deaths by AIDS, alcohol, motor vehicle accidents, homicide, illegal drugs and suicide. ... Once a "puff" of nicotine is inhaled into your lungs,you are given an almost immediate "kick" because of it's discharge of epinephrine from the adrenal cortex. ... Tobacco has a damaging affect on women's health and is associated with increased risk of miscarriage, preterm delivery, stillbirth, and infant death, and is a cause of low birth weight in infants. ...
