This was an article done by the University of California Los Angeles. They did research and tests on 15 different people, testing whether or not light cigarettes delivered less nicotine to the brain than regular cigarettes. They found in the study that regular cigarettes delivered between 1.2 and 1.4 milligrams of nicotine to the brain, while light cigarettes delivered between .6 and 1 milligrams of nicotine. This is not the difference the cigarette companies portray to the public. Regular cigarettes affected 88 percent of your brain's nicotine receptors, while "light" cigarettes affected 79 percent of the same type of receptors, again not much of a difference.
I think this article could be used to explain as to why people smoke cigarettes, and as to why they are so addictive. It also said in the article, that when the nicotine reaches the receptors, it acts like a masking agent and makes the body release dopimine, a euphoric hormone. This is where the addiction comes from, your body is used to having it, and it can't be without it. This can be useful to help explain the addiction part of smokers.
Hicken, Melanie. "Delaware beaches weigh cigarette ban; For smokers, it's a line in the sand." The Washington Times. 8 Aug. 2007. Lexis Nexis Academic. Bracken Library., Ball State University. 19 Feb. 2009.
This article was talking about smoking bans on public beaches. This article was talking about locations in Delaware in specific, but also included locations from throughout the United States. The article said that California's beaches had been with smoking bans since 2003, and that many New England beach sites had either implemented smoking bans, or were considering it. It also said that the man reason for the bans was not public health concerns, but it was more concerned with the litter from all of the cigarette butts. It said that on one beach in California, they picked up 15,000 butts at the end of the summer, and this beach had a smoking ban.
I am not sure if this article has direct importance to my article. It is a little off topic, considering it is talking about beaches and smoking bans. At the same time though, I do like how it shows how the public is wanting smoking to be banned all across the country, and in every application. It also talks about one of the problems facing places that still allow smoking. The litter that cigarette smoking is an enormous problem, so many people smoke multiple times a day, and that creates a lot of waste. This article may play a small part in my paper, but I think it will help.
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