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    This document discusses laws around smoking in the Philippines, health effects of smoking, and interviews smokers about their habits. It finds that smokers have difficulty quitting for reasons like fitting in, stress relief, and pleasure from smoking. Interviewed smokers smoke between 10-20 cigarettes per day and have not successfully quit, supporting the hypothesis that smokers have a hard time stopping. The conclusion is that smoking leads to negative health outcomes and addiction.

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    This document discusses laws around smoking in the Philippines, health effects of smoking, and interviews smokers about their habits. It finds that smokers have difficulty quitting for reasons like fitting in, stress relief, and pleasure from smoking. Interviewed smokers smoke between 10-20 cigarettes per day and have not successfully quit, supporting the hypothesis that smokers have a hard time stopping. The conclusion is that smoking leads to negative health outcomes and addiction.

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    This document discusses laws around smoking in the Philippines, health effects of smoking, and interviews smokers about their habits. It finds that smokers have difficulty quitting for reasons like fitting in, stress relief, and pleasure from smoking. Interviewed smokers smoke between 10-20 cigarettes per day and have not successfully quit, supporting the hypothesis that smokers have a hard time stopping. The conclusion is that smoking leads to negative health outcomes and addiction.

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    Smoking

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    This document discusses laws around smoking in the Philippines, health effects of smoking, and interviews smokers about their habits. It finds that smokers have difficulty quitting for reasons like fitting in, stress relief, and pleasure from smoking. Interviewed smokers smoke between 10-20 cigarettes per day and have not successfully quit, supporting the hypothesis that smokers have a hard time stopping. The conclusion is that smoking leads to negative health outcomes and addiction.

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    Topic: Smoking in our community. Subtopic: Laws concerning smoking in our country. Effects of smoking in Our Body.

    Background research: (MAIN TOPIC)


    Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals. Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and nicotine are some of the major components. Minor components include acetone, acetylene, formaldehyde, propane, hydrogen cyanide, toluene, and many others. Recently there has been an overabundance of media coverage regarding the publics war on smoking. Over the last few years, the government has begun taking vital steps towards eliminating smoking in public areas, in order to make our society a better place to live. There are many controversies surrounding the act of smoking; health issues for the smoker and those around them; the ever-heightening prices; and the social unacceptance of the act. NAVAL, Biliran, June 7 (PIA) -- The provincial health office in Biliran province launched a new anti-smoking campaign that will raise more public awareness on the ill-effects of tobacco smoking to ones health. Vanessa Veloso, health education and promotion officer of the Biliran Provincial Health Office (BPHO) said in a press statement that the province launched a new tobacco control campaign to warn Biliranons on the dangers of tobacco use. Department of Health (DOH) revealed in a recent press release that 240

    Filipinos die every day from tobacco-related illnesses in the Philippines. Smoking prevalence in the country is among the highest in the world; consequently, cigarette prices here are among the lowest in the world. The launching of the new health campaign is in line with the celebration of the no smoking month in June, Veloso added.

    This new media campaign called Sponge developed by the DOH with support from University of the Philippines- Los Banos, World Foundation and the provincial local government unit of Biliran, graphically depicts the amount of tar that is collected inside an average smokers lungs. she said. The original Sponge advertisement, which was aired in Sydney in the early 1980s as part of the Quit. For Life campaign, featured a cardboard cut-out of a male figure with a sponge placed on the chest area to represent human lungs. It portrays lungs as sponges designed to soak up air and show how, for smokers, they soak up smoke and ends with the memorable image of cancer-producing tar being squeezed from a discolored sponge into a rapidly filling beaker. It was further learned that Sponge campaign was proven to be a highly successful campaign in Sydney where a recall rate of 87 percent among smokers was recorded when it was first run in 1983.it was also associated with a 3.4 percent decrease in smoking prevalence in Sydney during the first six months of the campaign. The new anti-smoking campaign will be aired in local cable televisions and radio stations and will be shown in identified public places in the province of Biliran for the whole month of June this year, she further said.

    Background Research: (SUBTOPICS)


    Laws concerning smoking in our country:

    There are two laws concerning smoking in our country: 1. R.A. 9211. Under Section 3 of this act, smoking is said to be absolutely prohibited in public conveyance and public facilities, including airport and ship terminals and train and bus stations, restaurant and conference halls, except for separate smoking areas. 2. Republic Act No. 8749 or the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 prohibits smoking inside a public building or an enclosed public place, including public vehicles and other means of transport. BUT SAD TO SAY THAT FILIINOS ARE IGNORING THIS LAWS!
    Effects of smoking in the Body:

    Smoking can cause cancer, specifically, lung cancer, mouth and throat cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, and cervical cancer, chronic Bronchitis, Chronic Pneumonia , and many more illnesses.

    HYPOTHESIS:
    Smoking has been a very major problem in our community. Me as a student could not understand why certain folks smoke. Furthermore, it is harder to penetrate how come smokers obtain it very hard to stop smoking. There have been many testimonies of smokers who tried giving up but simply couldn't. Many methods and methods have been tried, but unluckily altogether failed. Hence, if this has been an agitating matter for most individuals, then it is totally fundamental for anyone to describe the source of the problem so that a solution can be deduced. Numerous folks smoke for other reasons. Some smoke because they are uninterested. Others smoke because they like the preference of cigarette. Even so, others smoke because they just wish to get something to do to pass their time. Perhaps, there are still incalculable reasons as to why people smoke. When a person starts smoking he/she will most likely to not stop.

    Experimentation: (Interview)
    Set of questions: 1. Why do you want to smoke? 2. Have you ever tried to quit smoking? 3. How long have you been smoking? 4. How many sticks of cigarette you smoke a day? 5. What do you feel when you smoke?

    Answers of interviewed smokers:


    Diosdado Bardelosa Jr. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I just want to smoke. I havent tried to quit. Since 1976. 1 packs a day. (1 pack= 10 sticks) I feel good.

    Nestor Jadulco 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I just like it. Yes, because sometimes it make me cough. Since 1988. 1 packs a day. It soothes me.

    Jonathan Espinosa 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. My girlfriend broke up with me. No, because I like it. 10 sticks a day. Since third year high school. I feel good.

    Ronie Garillo 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. For fashion, because smoking is a part of fashion. Yes, because I felt that my lips are getting dry. 3 months. 10 sticks. I feel so good because every time I smoke I felt so comfortable.

    UNAMED 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I just like it. No, cause I cant. 2 years. 20 sticks When I smoke I feel so free.

    Analyzed results and Conclusion:


    People that are current smokers cant stop smoking. People smoke for different reasons, like for fitting in the environment, broken hearted, and some for the pleasure that they get from it. Most of the interviewed people didnt try to stop but some. All of those people that tried never succeeded. One of the interviewed people, Nestor Jadulco, is having dry throat because of smoking. This happens when a person doesnt have mucus in there throat. All of the interviewed people are smoking 1 pack a day. They smoke because they feel more comfortable, free and many more happy stuff for them. So as conclusion smokers are having a hard time giving, probably they wont. Every time u smokes it leads you closer to your grave.

    THEREFORE OUR HYPOTHESIS IS TRUE.

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