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Factors that Cause Cigarette Addicted

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

smoking Factors that Cause Cigarette Addicted Addicted to cigarettes or nicotine addiction can be called contained in cigarettes, has many causative factor. If you have a desire to stop smoking, you need to know what the factors that cause addicted to cigarettes.

Based on survey results, the factors that cause addicted to smoking include:

Social Factors

The biggest factor of smoking habits are influenced by social or environmental factors, which a lot of character shaped by the environment, either from family, neighbors, or her social friends. Socializing is the main way children and teenagers to find their identity. By seeing what other people do and sometimes try to imitate what others do. It is a process that occurs in adolescents to seek identity and learn to socialize. Unfortunately, not only good habits that are copied but bad habits, including smoking habits.

If someone who is not a smoker, live or work together with a smoker, one automatically will be affected. Perhaps non-smokers started to try smoking, the opposite may also reduce the consumption of cigarette smokers. Both conscious and unconscious, adaptation is done to try to adjust to the environment and trying to be accepted in the social environment.

The Need to Suck and Chew

Every person has a need to suck and chew. These needs begin there since we were born of the need to drink milk, and gradually diminished and disappeared, but the few people still there until today. Some people use cigarettes or smoking device and smoke as a means to meet this need. There is the hypothesis that this need is greater by some adults then by others because of this requirement or some other similar basic needs, is not fully satisfied at the time of the children.

If you want to stop smoking, then replace the need for smoking cigarettes in other ways. For example, replaced with candy, or soft foods to chew, when the desire to smoke appeared. Indeed, too much eating snacks is one of the causes of obesity. But for the initial process, is considered an effective way.

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Dangers of Sex Under the Age of 17 Years

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Cervical cancer (uterus) is one type of cancer is frightening for a woman. Cancer is considered to be the largest cause of death of women in the world. There are several causes of these cancers, among other things, sexual intercourse under the age of 17 years.

Cervical cancer is a disease that affects many women. Why is that? Because only women who have a uterus, while men do not. The disease is fatal and occurs because the epithelial cells of the uterine lining does not develop normally. Like any other cancer, cervical cancer causes the program is not known with certainty. Several studies later mentions that the cancer was caused by a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) which appears, in part because the behavior often changing sex partners.

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The virus lives in moist areas, precisely in the vaginal fluid by white patients (leukore). If the discharge is not immediately improve, the virus can lead to cervical cancer. This condition usually characterized by the number of whitish fluid that accompanied odor and bleeding from the vagina. But there are times when the cancer appears it does not give the symptoms of such illness.

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The 14 Disease Smokers

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

nicotine wrning The 14 Disease SmokersWarning? Smoking Can Cause Cancer, Heart Attacks, Impotence and Disorders Pregnancy and Fetus? on each pack of cigarettes apparently not enough to represent the diseases that threaten the smokers.

Recent research by the United State Surgeon General, U.S. indicates there are 10 types of cancer caused by smoking. They also found, male smokers die 13,2 years younger than non-smokers. While women smokers died 14,5 years younger.

Here’s a list of smoker threatening diseases.

Brain : cigarettes a major cause of stroke.

Eyes : smokers at risk three times higher that cause suffering cataract blindness.

Mouth, throat, vocal cords, and esophagus:
cause cancer of the mouth, throat, vocal cords and esophagus. Also, gum disease, colds, and dry throat.

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The Influence of Alcohol on Body Organs

Friday, January 29th, 2010

A study conducted by the kaiserpermanente.org found that drinking alcohol (getting drunk) for more than three times per week increases the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 34%, based on studies involving 1900 women. Approximately 90 percent of these women are consumers of wine, and women who consumed two cups or more a day are most likely to suffer a relapse.

And excessive alcohol consumption during the long period of time has an adverse effect on almost every organ and body system, namely:

Brain: wrinkled brain tissue and damage brain cells.

Mouth and throat: 50% of cancer in this region associated with alcohol.

The lungs: disrupt protein resulting in the body fluid of lung cavity.

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Asbestos Can Cause Cancer? Mesothelioma

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Asbestos and Mesothelioma is closely related. Did you know that asbestos can cause a dangerous disease called “asbestos mesothelioma” ? Maybe some home building materials using asbestos have a chance to hit by the disease. Why? This is because by the inhalation of asbestos dust.

Asbestos and Mesothelioma Asbestos Can Cause Cancer? Mesothelioma

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GM Bankruptcy Leaves Asbestos Claimants Behind

Friday, January 8th, 2010

 GM Bankruptcy Leaves Asbestos Claimants BehindGeneral Motors emerged from bankruptcy last week after shedding nearly $130 billion in liabilities. The U.S. government now owns a majority stake in the company. CEO Fritz Henderson promised the new GM will repay about $50 billion in government loans ahead of a 2015 deadline.

Among the liabilities left behind in the courts were claims against the company by asbestos victims. Asbestos is still used in clutch, brake, and transmission parts in automobiles, and auto workers, auto mechanics and car owners who work on their own vehicles remain more at risk of exposure than they might realize. Exposure to asbestos leads to deadly diseases such as asbestosis and mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer.

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