SMOKING AND HALIFAX HOSPITAL

Why Smoking Should Be Prohibited In the Halifax Hospital Areas?

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Table of Contents

Introduction4

Consequence of Smoking5

Known human carcinogens7

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease10

Smoking and dental and periodontal disease diagnosis and treatment guide10

Physical dependence on nicotine11

The development of programs Smoking and Health (1988 - 1995, 1996 - 2000)12

Passive smoking12

The other costs of smoking12

How does it feel to smoke?13

Why is it so hard to quit?13

Why are you quitting?13

What if any friend smokes?14

Smoking near Hospitals14

Conclusion or why smoking should be prohibited at Halifax Hospital15

References16

Abstract

This study will attempt to answer the question as why smoking should be prohibited at Halifax Hospital. Halifax Hospital is located in the state Florida of United States. The study will firstly discuss, what is smoking, its consequences, in order to provide a clear picture as why it should be banned in the premises of the hospital. The findings of the study suggest two reasons why it should be banned in the premises of hospital: one is that it affects the health of the patients and their attendee, second this might stimulate the patients' will to continue his/er habit of smoking if s/he sees someone smoking in or near hospital.

Why Smoking Should Be Prohibited In the Halifax Hospital Areas?

Introduction

Smoking is a social phenomenon of the first magnitude which has become the leading cause of death and disability in developed countries. The high addictiveness of nicotine makes smoking can be considered as a real addiction and also as a chronic disease. Smoking is one of the main diseases that cause premature deaths. Every year, hundreds of thousands of smokers die because of smoking, also, thousands of people who aspire to be passive, smoke emanating from the cigarettes. In other words, people who live with cigarette smoke, not necessarily smoke them personally. Smoking is a chronic disease that in most clinical cases ends up being the main cause of various cancers and other ailments. Smoking is a chronic disease resulting from the addiction to nicotine, second substance that creates more dependence after heroin. Nicotine is antidepressant and relieves anxiety. Hence the resort to snuff smoking in moments of high stress index and are more situations in which people smoke. The disease and its incidence is measured by the amount of snuff that a smoker consumes a day and the times you smoke more than quantity. Mild smoking occurs when a person smokes fewer than 20 cigarettes a day and expects more than half an hour after getting up to turn on the first day. Suffer from acute smoking those addicts who consume more than twenty units per day and smoke their first cigarette shortly after waking. (Sayette, Martin, Wertz, Shiffman and Perrott, 2001)

This on the one hand affects the life of a smoker, whereas, on the other hand if any non-smoker continuously come in contact with heavy smoke of cigarettes or cigars may also got caught by several fatal diseases. In this paper the smoking, its causes will be discussed along with how does smoke that a smoker blows affect any ...