Essays on Addiction

Although the number of smokers decreased over the past decade, an estimated 34.2 million American adults still regularly use them. At the same time, the use of electronic cigarettes and vape pens have had a stable trend, especially among young people. Although vaping is often considered a ‘healthier’ option than regular smoking, both products contain...

My paper is about alcohol abuse or Alcoholism. Alcohol abuse is a chronic disease characterized by uncontrolled drinking. Alcohol abuse can be caused by stress, mental health problems, drinking at an early age, and having a family history of alcohol abuse. Some signs of alcoholism include becoming in trouble a lot more often, being unable...

Alcoholism is a condition that results in the continuous consumption of alcoholic beverages despite having negative social-behavioral consequences and health problems. It is also known as Alcohol use disorder, it means that somebody has problems controlling their drinking that causes various factors such as physical, emotional, social and psychological. We all aware that alcoholism is...

Introduction More than 20 years ago, researchers first noted that children of alcoholics (COA’s) appeared to be affected by a variety of problems over the course of their life span (Kenneth J. Sher, 1997). These problems involve fetal alcohol syndrome, which is first seemed in infancy; emotional problems and hyperactivity in childhood; emotional problems and...

Introduction Although tobacco smoking in the UK has significantly declined over recent decades, it remains one of the largest avoidable causes of health complications, cancer and death. As reported in a study by the Department of Health & Social Care, smoking cuts an average of ten years off one’s life (APPG 2019). The NHS Information...

Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream In particular, there are two movies about heroin use that are worth being discussed. These are Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream. Despite the popular idea that these movies present heroin addiction in the worst possible light, they do, however, romanticize the idea of being a “junkie”. They successfully...

Social Media Dangers Do you know that social media may be very harmful for you and others around you? The D.A.R.E program in my school allows student to learn about common human mistakes from the experienced expert Corporal Gonzalez. She showed us pictures, told stories and even let us experience the same feelings as the...

Abstract Smoking is a leading contributor to disease and death worldwide (WHO, 2017). 13.5% of adults smoke worldwide which is 1 billion smokers. If this continues, 1 billion people worldwide will die this century due to cigarette smoking. The rationale of conducting this research is to aware smokers the health risk they are putting on...

As Indonesia has one of the highest smoking rates in the world, cigarettes are an extremely popular product in Indonesia including among children. It’s not uncommon to see primary school children smoking cigarettes especially in rural areas (Wibawa, 2019). In Indonesia, children can buy a single cigarette from road-side kiosks freely. According to Astuti &...

This study is about smoking among individuals in North End Halifax. The writer made an assessment through observation of the surroundings and the citizens living on it. Reading materials such as history book from Public Library, and online journals were the main sources of this study. History was taken to inform the readers about the...