Family should quit smoking





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Everett Koop, former surgeon general said “Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society”. Even though Everett Koop said that it’s easier to see almost all people smoking. Parents and children are including. Why family should stop smoking. Quit smoking it’s an obligation for all of us because of the some health problems caused by smoking. The three main problems that caused smoking are: smoking cause cancer, smoking reduces the length and quality of  life and smoking during pregnancy increase pregnancy complications. The solution of those problems is to quit smoking.
 

Smoking reduces the length and quality of life. Maybe you don’t notice all the physical effects of smok
ing immediately, but someone surely will be sorry one day.  Every year, four million people die of smoking-related diseases. This is an average of one death every eight seconds. According Tommy G. Thompson Secretary of health and human services: “During 1995-1999, smoking caused approximately 440,000 premature deaths in the United States annually, leading to 13.2 years of potential life lost for male smokers, and 14.5 years lost for female smokers”. Smoking is the leading cause of premature, preventable death in this country. Joshua Norman said: “The images are part of a new visual campaign announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, the Associated Press reports, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.”  Because of that premature death, families are subject to suffer a lot of damage, like: parents without children or children without parents suffering economic and social.

 

The cancer is another reason why family people should stop smoking. Research has found Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. according centers for disease control and prevention “In the United States, cigarette smoking causes about 90% of lung cancers.”  Cigarette smoking increases the risk for many types of cancer almost anywhere in the body. Smoking causes cancer of the mouth, nose, throat, voice box (larynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, stomach, blood, and bone marrow (acute myeloid leukemia). The U.S. National Toxicology Program Said: “Research on Cancer has classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen cancer-causing agent. Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults (1, 3). Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of

Developing lung cancer”.

Partnership for a tobacco-free Maine said and I paraphrase: Women’s smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications.  Among of the complications are: premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome. Children born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more than three times as likely to die from the sudden infant death syndrome, according to a study published in this month’s edition of the Archives of Diseases of Childhood. Smoking before and during pregnancy are the single most preventable cause of illness and death among mothers and infants. Smoking while pregnant increases the risk of having a baby that is born prematurely by 30%.

 Smoking while pregnant can also lead to an astonishing number of children's health problems, including pneumonia and asthma. According to an AP medical news report, researchers have discovered a link between some cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder among U.S. children and exposure to tobacco smoke before birth. A new study found that women who smoked from some point in the month before conception through to the end of their first trimester were 60% more likely to have babies with a congenital heart defect.

In conclusion, if family people want to resolve the problem of smoking and cancer, which reduces the length and quality of their life and causes pregnancy complications, they should quit smoking.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual smoking-attributable mortality, years of potential life lost, and productivity losses—United States, 1997–2001. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2005; 54(25):625–628.web

 Koop Evertt.“Everett Koop Quotes." brainy quotes. N.p., 2001 - 2012. Web. 14May 2012.

National Toxicology Program. Report on Carcinogens. Eleventh Edition. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program, 2005.

Norman Joshua. Cigarette Packs to Show Corpses, Cancer Patients. CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. November 10, 2010. Web.

Partenership for a tobacco-free Maine. Pregnant women. Maine department of health and human services,2008

Thompson Tommy G. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.Web

Family should quit smoking.

Everett Koop, former surgeon general said “Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society”. Even though Everett Koop said that it’s easier to see almost all people smoking. Parents and children are including. Why family should stop smoking. Quit smoking it’s an obligation for all of us because of the some health problems caused by smoking. The three main problems that caused smoking are: smoking cause cancer, smoking reduces the length and quality of  life and smoking during pregnancy increase pregnancy complications. The solution of those problems is to quit smoking.

Smoking reduces the length and quality of life. Maybe you don’t notice all the physical effects of smoking immediately, but someone surely will be sorry one day.  Every year, four million people die of smoking-related diseases. This is an average of one death every eight seconds. According Tommy G. Thompson Secretary of health and human services: “During 1995-1999, smoking caused approximately 440,000 premature deaths in the United States annually, leading to 13.2 years of potential life lost for male smokers, and 14.5 years lost for female smokers”. Smoking is the leading cause of premature, preventable death in this country. Joshua Norman said: “The images are part of a new visual campaign announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, the Associated Press reports, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.”  Because of that premature death, families are subject to suffer a lot of damage, like: parents without children or children without parents suffering economic and social.

 

The cancer is another reason why family people should stop smoking. Research has found Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. according centers for disease control and prevention “In the United States, cigarette smoking causes about 90% of lung cancers.”  Cigarette smoking increases the risk for many types of cancer almost anywhere in the body. Smoking causes cancer of the mouth, nose, throat, voice box (larynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, stomach, blood, and bone marrow (acute myeloid leukemia). The U.S. National Toxicology Program Said: “Research on Cancer has classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen cancer-causing agent. Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults (1, 3). Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of

Developing lung cancer”.

Partnership for a tobacco-free Maine said and I paraphrase: Women’s smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications.  Among of the complications are: premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome. Children born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more than three times as likely to die from the sudden infant death syndrome, according to a study published in this month’s edition of the Archives of Diseases of Childhood. Smoking before and during pregnancy are the single most preventable cause of illness and death among mothers and infants. Smoking while pregnant increases the risk of having a baby that is born prematurely by 30%.

 Smoking while pregnant can also lead to an astonishing number of children's health problems, including pneumonia and asthma. According to an AP medical news report, researchers have discovered a link between some cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder among U.S. children and exposure to tobacco smoke before birth. A new study found that women who smoked from some point in the month before conception through to the end of their first trimester were 60% more likely to have babies with a congenital heart defect.

In conclusion, if family people want to resolve the problem of smoking and cancer, which reduces the length and quality of their life and causes pregnancy complications, they should quit smoking.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual smoking-attributable mortality, years of potential life lost, and productivity losses—United States, 1997–2001. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2005; 54(25):625–628.web

 Koop Evertt.“Everett Koop Quotes." brainy quotes. N.p., 2001 - 2012. Web. 14May 2012.

National Toxicology Program. Report on Carcinogens. Eleventh Edition. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program, 2005.

Norman Joshua. Cigarette Packs to Show Corpses, Cancer Patients. CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. November 10, 2010. Web.

Partenership for a tobacco-free Maine. Pregnant women. Maine department of health and human services,2008

Thompson Tommy G. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.Web

I remember the first time I came here, at BCC to start my ESl class. It was my first time to sit down in a classroom of U.S.A, and my first time to study in another language. I was very nervous because I couldn’t hear what the teacher was talking about when he was teaching. I was so strange like a person who lost her right way.  Generally reading and writing are a part of my life because of my profession as a Minister. But, writing and reading in English give me a lot of trouble.  Even though the English was so difficult for me, I just kept reading and writing to improve it because that was the only way I could become better.  When I was writing in English I used to make a lot of mistake. That made me shame and sad in class. My first writing teacher advised me and encouraged me to continue to read and write, even though I make mistake, I can learn by my mistakes.  Since the day when I text my friends by phone or on face book I do it in English. I applied my teacher’s advises and at the end of the semester in the CPT test.  I finally understand my writing was growing up and I was better than before. Moreover my English was began to grow up I was intrigued to register for English 101. But, knowing the necessity to improve my English I took it and it was benefit for me.

The first assignment is about Memoir. I took two days to think about a good story about me that can attract my readers. I put on the paper whatever idea that comes in my mind. Finally, I found a best one. It was about the first time I left my family’s home to going to work as a minister is another city in my country far from my city. I wrote my essay in two times after that I compared them and I took the best one. When I ‘m doing it. I tried to pick the mains point of each paragraph and to figure out the main idea. I thought a lot to remember everything. When I was done my teacher revised the draft, put some notes where I made some mistake and gave me some advice.

My second assignment is about ethnography. The teacher gave us a lot choice to write about in whatever group we want to write that connect to our theme. The way we have to do that is to use the observation method. AS my theme was family, I had to go in some place to do that. I have chosen black American church to figure out the way the families come to worship God. That allowed me to develop the sense of observation and have something to share with my classmates. This essay taught me how to collect ideas or drawing my observations and examine the subculture.

My last assignment is an argument essay. The last one appears more difficult for me. The method that we have to use to do it, it’s to read a lot of article for finding appropriate quotations that support our ideas in our topic. In reason of multiple divorces I chosen: should divorce be the way out of the spousal conflicts? After reading a lot of article on it I felt more comfortable to start writing.

Jean Parisien

Holly Papas

Eng 101

05/06/2012

Should divorce be the way out of the spousal conflicts?

In a letter to Burwell Bassett, dated 23 May 1785, George Washington wrote: “I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery”(“Marriage Quotes”). Hence, we wonder if a married couple should be anytime able to run away from this eventual marriage-related misery and consequently break this well-known marriage vow:  “I,__, take you,__,to be my wedded (husband/wife), for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part: according to God’s holy ordinance, and thereto I pledge you my love and faithfulness”. Is happiness a merely idyllic and far-fetched concept? From this perspective, let us contrast the opinions that are favorable to divorce as the solution to strife between the couples with those that are opposed to the latter.

Nowadays, it seems that people have a one-sided focus on marriage and their feelings appear to be as fickle as food cravings during pregnancy. In fact, it is an approach that appeals to the excitement of the senses and limits itself to the appraisal of external beauty as exposed in the media. Kathleen O’Connell Corcoran in her article Psychological and Emotional Aspect of Divorce, she wrote: “The divorce rate in the United State is the highest in the world. Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce .Sixty-Seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce”. It boils down to the following: if it doesn’t work, it wasn’t meant to be. This means that the people of our time reckon that they are entitled to live out this pleasure that marriage brings into our hearts in any way they think best. As far as most of them are concerned, it is just another inviolable human right, which is based upon the much-vaunted freedom of expression. In other words, people are convinced that the media-induced values such as cult of beauty, fleeting pleasures and others may be incorporated into marriage with no serious consequences. Their focus is solely placed upon fun, joy, comfort, luxury and so on, with no consideration to sickness, difficulties that are also part of our daily life and the marriage vow as well. On the basis of this scenario, the quest for compatible personalities is the least of their concerns.

Other people go to great lengths to state that that marriage goes contrary to our human nature. Nicole smith said: “Divorce can also depend on the extent of the problem. If a couple is experiencing some difficulties when they are together because of their differences, it is not a very good reason to file for a divorce”. In a kind of attempt at honesty, a large group alleges that no matter how hard we try, we end up falling victims to our weaknesses and character defects. Therefore, lies, hypocrisy, self-indulgence, the instinct to dominate others and greed to name a few, prevail over that need to love and be loved we felt once. In this context, people appear to know the end from the very beginning but are unable to do anything to overcome the possible barriers to a well-balanced marriage with no prospect of divorce. This group of people acknowledges that it is something that is beyond our power. The whole issue comes down to something like this: marriage comes and goes and we move on with our lives. It is just one of the rituals of our modern society. It is a giant that will defeat us sooner or later.

On the other hand, Vernon K. Mclellan says that “Marriage has some thorns, but celibacy has no roses” (“Marriage Quotes”). In this regard, she kind of admits that life is made of obstacles and strife but as social beings we are well comforted and we grow both personally and professionally within a healthy relationship. Moreover, Betty said: “Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen”. We may go further to say that marriage is the agreement which allows us to perpetuate society as we know it today. Family: It is the smallest part of the society. Then, just as in the society, challenges that we should take up with tact, arise inside the family. We do not get rid of the concept Society in spite of the moral decay and the shift away from good. Likewise, we should not try and get rid of marriage in the face of the first problems whose origins come from inside of us. After all, marriage has brought us more personal satisfaction, pure joy and mental balance than society has. On his part, Billy Graham has claimed that “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love” within the bounds of marriage, we would add in this context.

Additionally, as stated in the Canon 1057.2, “Matrimonial consent is an act of will by which a man and a woman by an irrevocable covenant mutually give and accept one another for the purpose of establishing a marriage”. It is an irrevocable covenant signed by two people who, in turn, are committed to honoring the marriage vow they took up to their last sigh. Any voluntary disregard of any clause in this contract constitutes an irresponsible act on the part of -at least- one of the spouses. Here comes the point about the binding nature of marriage, which is set out in both the canon law and the Holy Scriptures and which people are aware of before and during the wedding. The comforting thing is that God knows everything. He realizes that since marriages involve two sinful (imperfect) human beings, divorces are likely to occur. In the Old Testament, He laid down some laws in order to protect the rights of divorcees, especially women (King James Version, Deuteronomy 24:1-4). However, Jesus pointed out that these “laws were given because of the hardness of people’s hearts, not because they were God’s desire (King James Version, Matthew 19:8)”. In the book of Malachi 2:16, the Lord, God of Israel says: “I hate divorce.” According to the Bible, marriage is a lifetime commitment. Matthew 19:6 reinforces the indissolubility of marriage in those terms:  “So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate”.

In conclusion, divorce must be the last resort and not the first one. It should be addressed when we have failed to challenge ourselves to become a better person in every sense of the word. Sometimes lost in the debate over the exception clause is the fact that whatever “marital unfaithfulness” means, it is an allowance for divorce, not a requirement for it. Even when adultery is committed, a couple can, through God’s grace, learn to forgive and begin rebuilding their marriage. God has forgiven us of so much more.  We need to make internal changes happen on the inside through the workings of Holy Spirit so that we can overcome what constitutes the veritable barriers to our happiness in wedlock. This way, there will be no room for self, false pride, greed, lack of compassion and so on. Those are the main elements that prevent us from understanding and accepting God’s precious view on marriage. Only God’s Spirit can do this work within us and subject our selfish, immature and reckless motivations and character defects to God’s will, which consists of plans for peace, happiness and prosperity for each of us.

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