The Unbeneficial Drink

                                           The Unbeneficial Drink
                                            By: Quintin Rodriguez

          Cenasillicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass; which is why people who are addicted to beer can’t stop on one glass. Beer is considered sumptuous by some people, but nevertheless, over-dosage is the path to an endangered health. Meaningless to say, alcoholism is not beneficial for it damages the brain, it causes liver cancer and it results to blood poisoning.

          One of the countless casualties that can be derived from alcoholism can be brain damage. When alcohol gets in the body, the nerves react to the strong flavour. But the flavour doesn’t give the kick, it’s the potency of the fermented Hobs. Hobs are the main ingredient that gives the bitter, sour and tonic taste. It mainly functions as the addictive element that weakens mental and motor awareness. Over-dosage; such, damages neurons and slowly lessen them, slowly weakening brain activities like response to body organs and thinking.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

          Second, other than the nervous system, the excretory system is affected. The liver, specifically. The liver may play various roles such as waste conversion and transporting safe waste to the blood, but its filtration or conversion process gets disrupted. Alcohol poisons the liver and disrupts the process of conversion. The alcohol waste from digestion is taken into conversion, but since the liver can’t handle the potency, the liver soars and enlarges until it reaches the stage of liver cancer. Live cancer is possible the common sickness of distressed drinkers in the middle age.

          Lastly, the circulatory system gets messed up. In the conversion process of the liver, written was the so called “safe waste”. The “safe waste” doesn’t stay safe. It is because of the alcohol poisoning in the liver, the alcohol waste is transported to the blood for elimination. But since the blood cells can’t hold on to the waste, the blood cells spill it to the bloodstream. So, even if it reaches the kidney, it won’t be filtered and eliminated. Which is how blood poisoning occurs. Now that the blood is contaminated, the parts in the body will take it in and health failure happens.

          Nothing else is in need to say, but alcohol is nothing to benefit from, but something to die from. The knowledge of knowing these will help prevent people from destroying their health. Never resort to drinking, nothing is to benefit from it, but for it to take thyself.

Alcoholism

Alcoholism

By: Jan Camille Sebastianne S. Budlong

Why do people drink? Is it because they think it’s cool? Well, maybe. According to my research, kids who are 10-11 years old starts to drink alcohol. Maybe they are influenced by their parents or relatives. People drink because they think it’s cool. Drinking alcohol is bad for the health and may destroy your future. Drinking alcohol causes media influence, peer pressure and insecurities.

Alcohol is a drug that depresses or slows down your brain. People drink alcohol as early as 10-11 years old because of the advertisements of TV. Teenagers are influence because of the TV commercials, attracts them to buy 1 bottle and drink with friends. Teenagers who are ignorant of alcohol are forced to drink because they want to go with the flow with their friends and want to be cool. Teenagers are ignorant of the taste of an alcohol, thinking how it feels or what the taste of it is. Once you started drinking alcohol in an early age, you’ll be having hard time to stop. Why? Because one drink tempts you to drink more and more.

Drinking alcohol is now ordinary to teenagers. Mostly, teenagers drink at clubs, parties, or maybe in their home. Drinking alcohol is bad for the health as it damages your health, especially your future. You should stop drinking alcohol or better, don’t drink to have a good health. So, stop drinking alcohol and see for yourself the bad benefits of drinking alcohol.

Smoking is dangerous! By: Louella June Gadingan

 Smoking is dangerous!

By: Louella June Gadingan

II – Regis

87, 600 Filipinos die each year due to smoking. Cigarette has also cost P148 billion a year in economy’s losses due to illness and death. Smoking is dangerous for your health because it can cause a lot of diseases like ear infection, respiratory, and asthma. 

Smoking can cause ear infection. As we all know, smoke is an irritant to our nasal passage. Since our body is equipped with defense mechanisms, our nasal passage will thicken with mucus in the presence of irritants. As mentioned above, thickened mucus becomes a favorable home to bacteria that could travel and infect our ears. This is triggered by the protective action of our body against cigarette smoke. 

Emphysema or commonly called as respiratory breakdown. This effect is a long term effect; it is a progressive disease of lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath.

Cigarette smoke contains several irritants that have been shown to cause chronic inflammation in the airways. Such inflammation can lead to asthma. 

Therefore, for all the smokers out there, it is important that if you cannot stop smoking, at least try to avoid smoking around people because it will have bad effects on second hand smokers, and smoking can decrease your life by seven minutes each stick of a cigarette, so if you will smoke a box of cigarette a day, your life will be decreased by approximately 4 days, so you need to avoid or most preferably stop smoking around people especially children. 

Threats of Smoking

                                                             Threats of Smoking
                                                             By: Jeshreen Salac

           Brooke Shields once said,"Smoking kills. If you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life." If a person starts to smoke it will be like a miracle to stop. To avoid being addicting to smoking, don't try to smoke.Smoking can kill someone's life because it releases toxic chemical gases, destroys vital organs,and triggers diseases.

         Smoking can easily take someone's life. The smoke that it releases are ammonia, benzene and nicotine. Those drugs are so addictive, thats why some people are having a hard time quitting. The smoke severely damages a lot of vital organs but the lungs are the most affected among the rest. The lungs are affected because it's smoke releases 4800 chemicals, 69 of which are said to be cancerous and those chemicals are very perilous to the body.when the lungs are already it usually results to lung cancer. There are a lot of deadly diseases that are caused by smoking and this Infections can result to unfavorable things. Smoking shouldn't be permitted because it harms the people and the environment.

          Smoking destroys life because it releases chemicals, damages vital organs and causes deadly infections. Smoking destroys the body, physically and mentally. There is no beneficial side in smoking. It kills l so don't ever try to smoke or stop smoking. Don't fool yourself, don't smoke and live longer.

Smoking: The Negative Effects

Smoking: The Negative Effects

By: Mel Patrick M. Merquita

            In the 21^st Century, smoking has been a trend to both teenagers and adults. About half of the earth’s populations are smokers. In the Philippines, smokers can be found in every corner. Nobody cares about the negative effects of smoking. Smoking has a negative effect on the smoker because it can change his or her personality, endanger his or her health and change society’s view of him or her.

            Smoking is addictive because it gives the smoker a sensation that increases his or her heart rate. With every “puff” of the smoker, he or she changes his or her personality. The smoker becomes reliant to the cigarette stick. The smoker will slowly become a slave to the cigarette stick and as time passes it can damage his or her well being. The smoker’s wellness will decrease and his or her health will be in danger. The smoker will be a nest of deadly diseases like lung cancer, deteriorating eyesight and ear infection. With diseases like these at hand, society’s view of him or her will change. Society will look at him or her as a drug addict, a bad role model and a sadistic slave to cigarette. Smoking has proved to be indeed bad yet the smokers don’t care.

            The effects of smoking will destroy the smoker. As the future of the world, every man or woman being must teach their children that smoking is intolerable. The children are the future of the world and they must be aware of the negative effects of smoking. Sadly, as time passes, smokers become younger and younger. But it is not the end, there is still time. Everyone must be an example to stop smoking. With full cooperation from everyone, smoking can end and this world will become a better place.

Smoking

"Smoking"

By: Arlj Paglinawan

2 -Regis

       How bad is smoking? It is the worst. Scientists say that there are over 4,000 chemicals found in a cigarette and 51 of them are known to be carcinogenic. Carcinogen is something that causes cancer. This means that when a person smokes, there is really a big possibility of having plenty of diseases. Worse it can cause death. Not just because of the diseases you get from smoking but because cancer doesn’t have a cure. Smoking is dangerous because of its components like nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide.

            The most common disease a smoker can get is lung cancer because of the chemicals found in a cigarette like nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide. Nicotine is a poisonous drug and it is the main ingredient in making insecticides or bug sprays. They say that even if at least a drop of this on a person’s tongue, it could already kill him/her. Imagine how much nicotine you have in your body when you smoke? Tar is an oily material which sticks to and blackens the lungs when a smoker inhales. When a person’s lungs turn black this means that he/she has a lung disease. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas. When a person inhales this gas, it can interfere with their respiratory and circulatory systems which means it can affect their breathing and their blood. These chemicals can already trigger plenty of diseases, how much more with the other chemicals?

            Smoking is dangerous because of the chemicals found inside. It does not only trigger many diseases but can also cause death. It’s like a silent killer. You may not notice it but when you smoke, it already destroys our organs slowly. Smoking is dangerous to your health. It may be hard to resist but a person should at least try to stop. Learn to say no to smoking.

A Threat to Good Thinking

A Threat to Good Thinking

By: Millenus Ocubillo

2-Regis

 

Ever heard of the phrase “you can never have too much of one thing.” Well, that phrase isn’t true especially if it’s alcohol. Alcohol is very dangerous to our body if it’s too much. A lot of people ruined their thinking because of that. Excessive drinking of alcohol can ruin ones thinking because it makes people emotional, hallucinate, and forgetful.

Excessive drinking of alcohol ruins how people think. It makes people emotional because it affects the part of the brain that controls your behavior and emotions which leads to the misjudgement of how people act around the person. It hallucinates people because of interference in the interpretation of information received by the brain. Being forgetful is also caused by alcohol because it destroys the neurons that stores the information received by the brain. Alcohol drinking disorients how people think which leads to ruined thinking.

Excessive drinking ruins how people think. It ruins how people think because it affects the parts that sends and receives the information. It disrupts the brains interpretation of information. It disorients how people think. Moderation is needed to stop this problems and complications.

Silent Killer Essay

"Silent Killer"

By: Kristianne Gaile V. Llamera

2 - Regis

          Smoking, what about the action makes it so dangerous? I'm sure everyone's heard that smoking's "bad for one's health" and should be "done in moderation", if not at all. But the question is; why is it smoking so harmful? Smoking is dangerous not only because it cripple's one's health, but also because it's highly addictive and harms those around smoker's as well. Hard to believe smoker's risk so much huh?

          Now, to explain further. First of all, the smoke that smoker's inhale is highly destructive and has some serious effects on the body. For every cigarette smoked, a person's life span is decreased by roughly 11 minutes, and the risk of lung cancer (which is the number one cancer killer of both men and women in the world) is increased. Second, nicotine (a naturally-occurring, odorless, colorless liquid that exudes the pungent scent of tobacco when exposed to air) which is most commonly found in the tobacco plant (and therefore tobacco products) is what makes smoking addictive. It is not the smoke, rather it is the nicotine (and the 4000 or so other chemicals present) in the smoke that gives smoker's the distinctive "kick" or rush that they're looking for. Every time an individual smokes, that person's tolerance level goes up, meaning that the person will have to smoke more just to get the same effects as last time, eventually leading to dependency and addiction. Third, second-hand smoke (which is the stuff smoker's choke out after every puff) is 5 times more dangerous than first-hand smoke, since it has been infused with Carbon Dioxide (a waste product of the body) and is no longer diffused by oxygen. So over-all, smoking really does kill.

          Since it greatly cripple's one's health, is highly addictive, and harms even those who don't smoke, smoking is truly deadly. The smoke is destructive, the nicotine hooks people, and the second-hand smoke is worse than the first. Since no one really does feel like dying any earlier than they have to, don't smoke. But you don't have to listen really. It is a personal choice, after all.

Cigarette smoking: A Threat To Your Health

                                          Cigarette Smoking : A Threat To Your Health

                                                        By: Jessa Marie Torrefiel

                                                                      2Regis

            Cigarette smoking kills half of all life time smokers. It is a perfect type of pleasure that leaves one unsatisfied and wanting for more. What more can one ask for? It is also a form of addiction where people of different ages tend to adhere. According to the statistics, cigarette smoking is by far the leading cause of premature or untimely death here in the Philippines. Smoking can endanger one’s health because it can cause respiratory damage, nervous breakdown and cardiovascular failure.

            Smoking can bring serious respiratory damage specifically lung cancer and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Lung cancer is caused by the build-up of nicotine ( a chemical found in tobacco) inside the lungs which is accompanied by extreme pain and continued fits of cough while COPD is a disease wherein the lungs loses its normal elasticity and would apt to  constriction of the bronchioles. If it is left untreated, it can lead to sudden death. Secondly, smoking can bring about nervous breakdown like self disorientation and mental crash. The brain releases dopamine (a happy hormone) when a person is happy but high levels of tobacco can produce excessive amounts of dopamine. As a result, normal activities no longer produce the sensation of pleasure they once did, that’s why smoking addicts feel depressed and sick without their obsession and if not prevented, one might consider checking in the Mental Hospital. Lastly, smoking can trigger cardiovascular failure such as Atherosclerosis and Myocardial Infarction (heart attack). Atherosclerosis happens when nicotine gets clogged up with fatty deposits in the blood vessels that would result to a breakage of the said blood vessel and that would later be a primary cause of heart attack or even death.

           

            Cigarette smoking can seriously endanger one’s health by slowly deteriorating a person’s organ systems. It can’t only rupture one or two organ systems but many. Smoking is a slow but sure suicide. It risks life and shortens a person’s life span by how many years depending on how hard one can smoke. One way of lowering the risks is smoking cessation. But only true and honest dedication and commitment can make a person quit smoking. Smoking is hard to resist. But in this game of life, what is more important: the pleasure of what smoking can bring or the reality that smoking is a threat to one’s health?