Choose five topics that you think are potential research topics for your paper and briefly (in 4 to 5 sentences) explain why these topics are of interest to you. Read the overviews provided for each of the topics you select.
In order that you read each of the overviews carefully, you are to answer the following questions about each overview:
- What is the topic you are reading about?
- What is the source citation? Just copy and paste it from the bottom onto your blog. DO NOT COPY THE URL!
- Summarize the central idea of the overview in one or two sentences IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
- List two to four specific details that support the central idea IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
- Create an opportunity for further research by writing down two questions the text raises about the central idea (explicitly or implicitly). Explicit means stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt, while implicit means implied though not plainly expressed.
- Write down one word or phrase whose meaning you do not fully understand.
- Next, write down what may be preventing you from understanding it (is it an unrecognizable term? an unfamiliar person, place, or allusion?)
- Use a third party resource (dictionary, thesaurus, Google search) to find its definition or meaning. Write it down.
- Write one question about the overview that you can pose to your peers in a discussion
- SMOKING
- Smoking is a serious threat to public health for two main reasons.
- "Smoking." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.
- Smoking is a serious threat to public health for two main reasons. The first is the great variety of health problems that can be caused by tobacco. The second is the sheer number of people who continue, in spite of these risks, to use it.The dangers of tobacco were not always well known. It was smoked by early Native Americans during religious ceremonies. European explorers to the New World took tobacco plants home with them, and the use of tobacco became common in Europe by about 1600. At first, most users smoked the dried leaves in pipes or cigars or inhaled powdered tobacco, called snuff. Not everyone embraced tobacco. Some considered its use immoral or unhealthy. Still, the habit became more and more popular, especially after mass production of cigarettes began in the late 1800s. Traditionally, most smokers were men, but increasing numbers of women started to smoke in the mid-1950s.Around that time, however, medical observers began gathering evidence of tobacco’s harmful effects. In 1964, the US Surgeon General published a landmark report titled “Smoking and Health.” The report identified smoking as a direct cause of cancer and various other health problems. Since that time, additional research has confirmed the dangers of smoking. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking causes approximately 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. The American Cancer Society calls smoking the single most preventable cause of death in the United States.*Tobacco contains more than four thousand chemicals, some of which are known to be poisonous or carcinogenic (cancer causing)Tobacco use dramatically increases an individual’s risk of heart disease; stroke; lung diseases, such as emphysema and lung cancer; and other types of cancer.Nonsmokers can suffer negative health effects from secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) created by cigarettes. According to a 2014 report by the Surgeon General, secondhand smoke causes more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths and 34,000 heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States every year.plaintiffswho invented cigarettes?
Medical Marijuana
"Medical Marijuana." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.
Marijuana is the term for the dried leaves, flowers, or stems of the Cannabis plant. Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals, of which 80 have been identified as unique to Cannabis.
* who invented medical marijuana?*when was marijuana invented? - nconclusive.
- The cause for legalizing medical marijuana experienced a major setback in 2005, when the US Supreme Court ruled in Gonzales v. Raich that the federal government has the right to ban the use of Cannabis even in states with compassionate use laws.
NUTRITION
"Nutrition." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.
Humans are omnivores, which means they eat both plants and animals. Some people, however, choose not to eat meat for religious, health-related, or political reasons.
How is nutrition good for you ?
Do you think that nutrition is an everyday habit ?
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is a corn syrup products and are more likely to suffer the medical risks associated with an unhealthy diet.
. Opponents counter that many chronic diseases are the result of genetics or luck and that it is unfair to force these conditions to compete with obesity for dwindling funds.
why do you think nutrition is good for you ?
DRUGS AND ATHLETES
"Drugs and Athletes." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.
Recreational drugs include marijuana, cocaine, and other substances that are taken for pleasure (and not to enhance performance). They are illegal and may cause addiction and other health problems, although there is some debate over whether America‘s drug prohibition laws are fair and effective.
Anabolic (body-building) steroids are perhaps the most famous type of performance-enhancing drugs. Invented by physician John Ziegler in the 1950s, anabolic steroids are a synthetic form of the hormone testosterone.
they use it on runners to help them run longer and further.
why do athletes do drugs ?
why do athletes enjoy drugs if it can jeopardize their career ?
CLUB DRUGS
"Club Drugs." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Opposing
Today the club drug scene is constantly changing as drug manufacturers alter the
Teenage and young adult drug consumption continued to thrive, however, despite the fact that most club drugs were banned by the government’s Controlled Substances Act.
. Throughout the 1990s drug abuse ran rampant in the rave scene, and emergency rooms were inundated by overdose patients.
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why do many people enjoy club drugs ?
Teenage and young adult drug consumption continued to thrive, however, despite the fact that most club drugs were banned by the government’s Controlled Substances Act.
. Throughout the 1990s drug abuse ran rampant in the rave scene, and emergency rooms were inundated by overdose patients.
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why do many people enjoy club drugs ?
How come many people do club drugs? what do they get from doing them ?
