.... 2.5 million people every year. Therefore, smoking and stress are two major causes of heart attacks. Smoking causes heart attacks. The tobacco in cigarettes and cigars contain a chemical called nicotine. When inhaled into the lungs, nicotine causes the release of hormones in the body. These hormones raise the blood pressure. Consequently, a person's heart rate increases 15 to 25 beats per minute. Nicotine also causes the blood vessels to contract. People who smoke have a harder time keeping their hands and feet warm because their blood does not circulate as well as it does in non-smokers. When the heart rate increases and the blood vessels remain constricted ....

.... vision, or total color blindness, has no cones at all. As a result, they have no ability to see colors, and no hue discrimi-nation whatsoever. Monochromatic vision is very similar to watching a black and white television program. Somebody with a-typical monochromatic vision has just one type of cone, and can see just one color, and various shades of that color. This form is even rarer than the "typical" monochro-matism. Another, more common, form of color blindness is called dichromatism. People with di-chromatic vision tend to confuse red, green, and gray, but can easily distinguish blue and yellow. Some cannot even see the longest wavelengths of light -- the red end. ....

.... they clog the blood vessels, block the flow of blood, and cut off the oxygen supply to tissues and organs. This lack of oxygen can damage the body’s organs and limbs, and it causes sever pain to any affected area. Also, since sickled blood cells last only 10 to 20 days in the bloodstream, compared to a normal red cell’s life span of 120 days, the “sickled” cells result in chronic anemia (abnormally low levels of red blood cells). is most common in people whose ancestors came from parts of Saudi Arabia, India, Africa, and the Mediterranean region. Persons of South American, Central American, or Cuban origin may be affected also. Health experts estimate that appro ....

.... . Disorganized can start to show signs in early adolescents. These people portray inappropriate behaviors and emotions. For instance they may laugh at something like a close friend dieing or cry on a funny part of a movie. Disorganized schizophrenics also talk in a nonsensical manner. They make up their own language or just talk backwards. Catatonic is set apart from the others because of the persons with it unique catatonic, or motionless, state. These people spend lomg periods of time weeks, months, and occasionally years motionless or in other words "dead to the world" (Hamilton 120). When they do snaqp out of their catatomic state they are extremly hostile and aggre ....

.... not for humans to decide when another human being should die. The people who are against Voluntary Euthanasia say that anyone trying to remove a life from the earth, before it is ready to go is playing God. Another argument against the idea of Voluntary Euthanasia is the difficulty of doctors to accurately diagnose a terminal illness. They are basically saying that the medical profession, despite some public opinion, is not infallible, and does make some mistakes. Also, if the sickness is cancer, it may go into remission, and then the person, if they were euthanised, would have died prematurely for no reason. The next argument against the idea of Voluntary Euthanasia is ....

.... materiel managers will have to minimize all other related acquisition costs. The key opportunities will be changing processes to reduce the delivered cost of materiel through cost accounting, imbedded cost and cash flow. One technique that seeks to discover true cost levels is a commercially used management accounting system, activity-based costing. Activities that drive cost levels are identified and then analyzed in terms of their value to the production of the end product. For health services the end product would be the aggregation of applied procedures, tests and therapies related to a particular patient treatment. Accounting systems categorize expenditures in t ....

.... problems. Fraternity-sponsored parties also may encourage heavy drinking. Studies have found that students who consider parties or athletics important and those who drink to get drunk appear most likely to binge drink or to drink heavily (Shalala, 1, 1995 ). Although alcohol use by adolescents is frequent, alcoholism is very rare. Still, alcohol consumption by adolescents hinders normal development. Alcohol intake by children can result in learning impairment, hyperactivity, and personality and behavior problems, because today's society has accepted the casual use of alcohol (Effects, 1996, 1). Among men, research suggests that greater alcohol use is related to ....

.... ideas or alternatives. Usually a client already knows all this, they just never knew a better way or thought their way of dealing with life was normal. I work on accepting each person where they are in their life, which takes strength. I may be saying in my mind, 'Can't you see your way out of the prison you're in?', but then I remember that I used to be in the same place, and it took years to find my way out. I still struggle with my addiction, and it still affects me, just not so profoundly." "What I would like to do is work with teenagers. As a teenager, I was befriended by a Young Life leader. He was a man in his 40's and didn't want anything from me but to be m ....