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    Passive smoking, is known as “second hand smoke” or “environmental tobacco smoke(ETS)”. Passive smoking occurred when the non-smoker people breathe in the chemical that released from surrounding smoker’s cigarette, or being exposed in smoke environment. It also comprises “sidestream” smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and “mainstream” smoke which is smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker. It is a real threat to public health, however, people ignore or look down upon this

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    health of the public. In my personal opinion, both government and the Individual together needs to work to overcome this problem. Firstly, smoking not only harm the person who is smoking but also affects the people around the smoker. Passive smoking is destroying many families health. Several types of research on cancer patients have proved that passive smoking is one of the major reason behind throat cancer.

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    Investigating the effects of Workplace Smoking Ban Contents Investigating the effects of Workplace Smoking Ban 1 Aim and Objectives 1 Literature Review / Research Background 2 Research Rationale 3 Learning Outcomes 3 Study Design 4 Type of Study 4 Type of Design 4 Data Types 4 Ethics 5 Risk 5 Required Resources 5 Research Time Frame 5 References 6 Aim and Objectives The kay aim of the research is to investigate the effects of smoking ban at work place on employees and these effects may include

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    births and severe childhood asthma problems has dropped by after smoking was banned in public places. Researchers from the University of Maastricht and the University of Edinburgh studied 250,000 hospital visits and more than 2.5 million births for asthma attacks in children. It was discovered that “preterm births and hospital attendance for asthma has fallen by 10% “ especially in areas where smoking is banned. Though banning smoking at in public places would possibly have a negative effect, because

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    A New Concept

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    IAQ is not a new concept, consider our ancestors living in caves and the impact from smoke pollutions or in ancient Egypt stonemasons working in the open air were healthier than those working in workshop. Even Biblical scripts refer to the dangers of mould in the home. However, there have been four fundamental developments that have occurred in the last forty-five years (Lee, et al., 1996): • The increased time spent within indoor environments. • The increased dependency on artificial products

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    enlarged GHW (Australian Department of Health, 2016). Participants reported that plain packaging reduced tobacco’s appeal and that GHW were more noticeable against plain backgrounds. The images on the packaging brought home the adverse consequences of smoking in place of a perceived enjoyable experience (Australian Department of Health, 2016). This correlated with the decrease in prevalence of daily smokers from 15.1% in 2011 to 12.8% in 2013 (Fig.6) (WHO, 2016), indicating that these new measures did

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    Indoor Air Quality and Environmental Health Indoor air quality (IAQ) refers only to the quality of the ambient air in an interior environment. On average, people spend well over half of their time inside, and research has shown that indoor air in buildings can be more contaminated than outdoor air. The majority of people that work in non-industrial buildings such as offices, schools, and hospitals are exposed daily to poor IAQ. Indoor air pollution (IAP) continually ranks among the top five environmental

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    their targets (Reynold, 2010). Recognizing this report for India was extremely important. Due to the increased health problems of smoking by targeting a younger age bracket they would effectively increase the weight the government had to carry when it comes to providing health care for its citizens. The government also had in its favor the fact that in all but one case smoking use by young people had decreased when these bans where put in effect. The government’s argument for banning tobacco ads can be

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    death in the world today. Smoking has begun to take over our everyday life. It is the number one most leading cause of death in the world today, and also the number one substance smoked or chewed today. But what people do not realize is that there are consequences to smoking tobacco, or eating it. Tobacco is hazardous to the human body system, therefore it should be banned due to the fact that it causes serious problems to those who do smoke, causes second hand smoking, and causes gum diseases.

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    Tobacco Use Tobacco

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    Tobacco Use How many Americans use tobacco products? Well there is A LOT and it causes a lot of deaths per year also. Tobacco products cause 6 million deaths per year or more. Tobacco is dangerous for your body. It can cause serious health issues, Smoking has a long term effect to it. It could cause asthma, reduced lung growth, reduced lung functions and that's pretty serious if you ask me. The tobacco industry is influencing kids with their products for kids like the little play cigarettes that you

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