Introduction Smoking is a detriment to human health and should not be tolerated under any circumstances; therefore, the city of Los Angeles should take the steps required to ban smoking in private areas to preserve the health and wellbeing of its residents and visitors. This ban may pose a challenge...

Harakeh & Vollebergh (2013) conducted an original investigation on young adult smoking in peer groups using an experimental observational study design. The goal of the study was to examine whether passive peer influence or imitation affects the smoking behavior of young adults within group settings such as same-sex triads. The...

Second-hand smoking and the effects of smoking itself belong to some of the most discussed issues among scholars. The negative outcomes of smoking and second-hand smoking comprise of the ethical and medical issue and make it a combination of the factors in regards to the same case. The moral considerations...

This film had a big influence on me because it was an extremely funny, satirical way of sending home a message about how really deadly cigarette smoking is, and yet how the cigarette industry has worked and continues to work to try to find new customers. Rather than adopting a...

Creativity can be both a blessing and a curse. As demonstrated by this poem, the artist is often left behind the scenes and forgotten in the glitz and glamor of the movie industry. What small flame, like the end of a cigar, could be seen over the bright lights of...