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Expert Interview Answers

1. Smoking has many effects not only on the body, but also on the environment. Smoking causes a lot of lung damage. There are many chemicals that are not good for you in cigarettes. As someone breathes the nicotine in, the chemicals also enter the body. It leads to lung cancer and many other types of cancer. If a female is trying to become pregnant, smoking could cause her to not be able to. If a female smokes while pregnant, it could cause harm to the baby. With the amount a person smokes per day, could cause gum disease. Smoking can weaken ones immune system. This means that they would get sick easier than someone else.
2. Secondhand smoke is very dangerous for children. It could cause a child to have SIDS (Sudden infant death syndrome). A child could have more and severe asthma attacks. Secondhand smoke can cause lung cancer and death if someone is exposed to it very often.
3. When someone smokes, mucus is produced in the lungs and it clogs them. This causes one to cough, and the mucus can turn into an infection. Smoking inflames your lungs. It destroys lung tissue causing less oxygen being circulated through parts of your body. It also reduces the amount of cilia in your lungs. Cilia are hair like projections that clean the lungs. It the cilia are being destroyed, it could cause your lungs to become backed up.
4. Someone that smokes as many as one per day or only a few per week can have lung problems.
5. The new smoking products, vaping, it technically better for someone, but it is still not good for ones health. It can still cause a lot of damage to the lungs and body.
6. There are over 480,000 deaths from smoking per year.
7. If the price is raised on cigarettes, less people are likely to buy them. But, people find ways to buy them cheaper or with coupons.
8. The amount of people that smoke in the United States has gone down over the years, but there is still a great amount of people that do smoke.
9. Some vitamins can help bring one back to health from smoking and it can curve their craving for nicotine. Multivitamins are recommended to help build the body back up. Vitamin B Complex can help curve your craving for nicotine.
10. More people in the United States smoke cigarettes over vaping. Vaping is on the rise though, and smoking is on a decline.

Expert Interview Questions

1. What are the main effects of smoking?

2. Are there major effects that could happen to people that receive second hand smoking.

3. What happens to a person’s lungs from smoking?

4. How often does one have to smoke to have lung problems?

5. Are the new “smoking” products coming out now better for people?

6.  How many people die a year from smoking?

7. If cigarettes had a higher prices, would less people buy them?

8. Has the amount of smokers gone down in the past ten years?

9. Is there any supplement for smoking that would benefit someone?

10. Today, are there more people smoking cigarettes or the new vaping products?

Beth’s presentation and activities

Everything that Beth talked about in her presentation will help me so much as a student. I will not have any trouble finding books or articles for a research. I know that if I do have any trouble, that I should just go talk to a librarian. I also learned that to find certain articles, I need to use key words to find the correct information.

Three sources

Location 1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012369215316305

author 1: Dilyara G. Yanbaeva

Location 2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1034/j.1600-051X.2002.290815.x

Author 2: Dr. Gloria Calsina

Location 3: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmra1308383

Author 3: Phil Prabhat and Richard Peto

Group 3, Class 1

Group 3, Class 1

Should second-year students be required to live on campus?

Yes because…

1. it is easier to meet new people living in dorms

2. helps students with external stressors that they should not need to worry about when being so young in college

3. helps students not feel as lonely because they usually have a roommate and a lot of people around them

citations:

Schudde, Lauren T. “The Causal Effect of Campus Residency on College Student Retention.” The Review of Higher Education, Johns Hopkins University Press, 11 June 2011, muse.jhu.edu/article/439958.

“The Great Debate: To Live On-Campus or Off-Campus.” My College Options – Living On-Campus vs. Off-Campus, www.mycollegeoptions.org/Core/SiteContent/Students/Advice/College-Resource-Center/College-Life/Social-Life/Living-On-Campus-vs-Off-Campus.aspx.

Ohio State University. The Ohio State University at Newark, newark.osu.edu/students/student-life/housing-and-roommates/.