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Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causes many diseases, and reduces the health of smokers in general.1,2

Quitting smoking lowers your risk for smoking-related diseases and can add years to your life.1,2

Smoking and Death

Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.1

Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is nearly one in five deaths.1,2,3

Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following causes combined:4

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Illegal drug use

Alcohol use

Motor vehicle injuries

Firearm-related incidents

More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.1

Smoking causes about 90% (or 9 out of 10) of all lung cancer deaths in men and women.1,2 More women die from lung cancer each year than from breast cancer.5

About 80% (or 8 out of 10) of all deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are caused by smoking.1

Cigarette smoking increases risk for death from all causes in men and women.1

The risk of dying from cigarette smoking has increased over the last 50 years in men and women in the United States.1

Smoking and Increased Health Risks

Smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.1

Smoking is estimated to increase the risk—

For coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times1,6

For stroke by 2 to 4 times1

Of men developing lung cancer by 25 times1

Of women developing lung cancer by 25.7 times1

Smoking causes diminished overall health, increased absenteeism from work, and increased health care utilization and cost.1

Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease

Smokers are at greater risk for diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease).1,2

Smoking causes stroke and coronary heart disease, which are among the leading causes of death in the United States.1,3

Even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease.1

Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower. This makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure go up. Clots can also form.1,2

A stroke occurs when a clot blocks the blood flow to part of your brain or when a blood vessel in or around your brain bursts.1,2

Blockages caused by smoking can also reduce blood flow to your legs and skin.1,2

Smoking and Respiratory Disease

Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air sacs (alveoli) found in your lungs.1,2

Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.1,2

Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer.1,2

If you have asthma, tobacco smoke can trigger an attack or make an attack worse.1,2

Smokers are 12 to 13 times more likely to die from COPD than nonsmokers.1

Risks From Smoking
Smoking Can Damage Every Part of the Body
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Smoking and Cancer

Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body:1,2 (See figure above)

Bladder

Blood (acute myeloid leukemia)

Cervix

Colon and rectum (colorectal)

Esophagus

Kidney and ureter

Larynx

Liver

Oropharynx (includes parts of the throat, tongue, soft palate, and the tonsils)

Pancreas

Stomach

Trachea, bronchus, and lung

Smoking also increases the risk of dying from cancer and other diseases in cancer patients and survivors.1

If nobody smoked, one of every three cancer deaths in the United States would not happen.1,2

Smoking and Other Health Risks

Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and affects a person’s overall health.1,2

Smoking can make it harder for a woman to become pregnant and can affect her baby's health before and after birth. Smoking increases risks for:1,2,5

Preterm (early) delivery

Stillbirth (death of the baby before birth)

Low birth weight

Sudden infant death syndrome (known as SIDS or crib death)

Ectopic pregnancy

Orofacial clefts in infants

Smoking can also affect men's sperm, which can reduce fertility and also increase risks for birth defects and miscarriage.2

Smoking can affect bone health.1,5

Women past childbearing years who smoke have weaker bones than women who never smoked, and are at greater risk for broken bones.

Smoking affects the health of your teeth and gums and can cause tooth loss.1

Smoking can increase your risk for cataracts (clouding of the eye’s lens that makes it hard for you to see) and age-related macular degeneration (damage to a small spot near the center of the retina, the part of the eye needed for central vision).1

Smoking is a cause of type 2 diabetes mellitus and can make it harder to control. The risk of developing diabetes is 30–40% higher for active smokers than nonsmokers.1,2

Smoking causes general adverse effects on the body, including inflammation and decreased immune function.1

Smoking is a cause of rheumatoid arthritis.1

Quitting and Reduced Risks

Quitting smoking cuts cardiovascular risks. Just 1 year after quitting smoking, your risk for a heart attack drops sharply.2

Within 2 to 5 years after quitting smoking, your risk for stroke could fall to about the same as a nonsmoker’s.2

If you quit smoking, your risks for cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder drop by half within 5 years.2

Ten years after you quit smoking, your risk for lung cancer drops by half.2

References

1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2015 Oct 5].

2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: What It Means to You. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010 [accessed 2015 Oct 5].

3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. : Number of Deaths from 10 Leading Causes—National Vital StatQuickStatsistics System, United States, 2010. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2013:62(08);155. [accessed 2015 Oct 5].

4. Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL. Actual Causes of Death in the United States. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 2004;291(10):1238–45 [cited 2015 Oct 5].

5. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, 2001 [accessed 2015 Oct 5].

6. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1989 [accessed 2015 Oct 5].

For Further Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office on Smoking and Health
E-mail: tobaccoinfo@cdc.gov
Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO

Media Inquiries: Contact CDC's Office on Smoking and Health press line at 770-488-5493.

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Human eyes have developed the ability to see and become aware of the distance of an object – this phenomenon is known as depth perception. It starts to develop in a child who’s not more than two months old. However, it takes two eyes to develop this phenomenon. When both of these eyes look at an object, they create two images simultaneously, which are a little different from one another.

Depth perception is also responsible to form an idea of length, width and height of an object. This premise functions on a subconscious level and so quickly that we are not aware of the fact that it is actually happening. However, people with one eye might find depth perception very problematic – the phenomenon works ideally in binocular disparity (two-eyed normal vision). Neurological studies, however, suggest that the human brain has the capacity to manipulate depth of a scene with monocular vision (one eyed vision) too.

Depth perception is created by a process known as stereopsis. This process enables the brain to overlap two images created by our eyes that are processed with information given by parallax – an effect that creates a distinction between close and background objects by slowing down background objects rather than the objects closer to our eyes. Having monocular vision still let us experience parallax, but it’s not as good as binocular vision.

Depth perception is very important to keep us safe. It is the only reason that lets us know the distance of an object or how far an object is from us. Without this phenomenon taking place in our lives, it becomes very hard to differentiate between far and close objects. For example, if a person doesn’t have proper depth perception and a car is coming in his/her direction at a velocity of 200 km/h, he/she wouldn’t know how to judge the speed of the oncoming car and how far or close it is from him/her.

Poor depth perception can lead to confusion during such dire situations which leads to high fatality risks. However, since our brain can manipulate depth perception, we can train ourselves to create depth of a scene through specific exercises.

Scientists actually believe that depth perception is nothing more than a pseudo-3D effect that enables us to determine length, width and height of an object; and let us know how far or close an object is to us. However, our eyes are not capable of perceiving actual three dimensions when viewing objects. If we had real 3D perception, we would have been able to see an entire 3D object at once. But having a depth perception, even if it’s a pseudo effect, is very important to performing day to day tasks without any hindrances or running into accidents.

This is the end of our second guide. Next up, we have a third guide which explains how to write an evaluation essay properly – it assists you in writing the perfect evaluation essay which will no doubt be the subject of admiration by your professors.

References:

Paul King, 2016 “Visual Perception: What are some mind blowing facts about the human eye?” – Quora https://www.quora.com/Visual-Perception-What-are-some-mind-blowing-facts-about-the-human-eye
Paul King, 2012 “Why can’t we each of our eyes to see different things simultaneously?” – Quora https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-we-control-each-of-our-eyes-to-see-different-things-simultaneously
Paul King, 2016 “Why do we have two eyes?” – Quora https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-have-two-eyes
Steven Bradley, 2004 “Design Principles: Visual Perception and The Principles of Gestalt” – Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/design-principles-visual-perception-and-the-principles-of-gestalt/
Öğmen, H., & Herzog, M. H. (2010). The Geometry of Visual Perception: Retinotopic and Non-retinotopic Representations in the Human Visual System. Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 98(3), 479–492. http://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2009.2039028
Katkov, M., Harris, H., & Sagi, D. (2015). Visual perception of order-disorder transition. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 734. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00734
Paul King, 2015 “How can we see images in our minds?” – Quora https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-see-images-in-our-mind
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The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) does not issue service medals; that is a function of each military service department. Requests for the issuance or replacement of military service medals, decorations and awards should be directed to the specific branch of the military in which the veteran served. However, for cases involving Air Force and Army personnel (click here for exceptions), the NPRC will verify the awards to which a veteran is entitled and forward the request along with the records verification to the appropriate service department for issuance of the medals. Use the addresses listed below, and mail your request accordingly.

How Do I Request Military Awards and Decorations?

For the Veteran: in general, the military services will work replacement medal requests for the veteran at no cost. This includes family members with the signed authorization of the veteran.

For the Next-of-Kin: the process (and cost) for replacement medals requests differs among the service branches and is dependent upon who is requesting the medal, particularly if the request involves an archival record. Click here for details.

For the General Public: if the service member separated from military service before 1955, the public may purchase a copy of the veteran's Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) to determine the awards due and obtain the medals from a commercial source. If the service member separated after 1954, the public may request such information from the OMPF via the Freedom of Information Act ( see Access to OMPFs by the General Public).

Army | Air Force
(includes Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces) | Navy
Marine Corps | Coast Guard | Cold War Certificates

ARMYWhere to write for medals | National Personnel Records Center
1 Archives Drive
St. Louis, MO 63138 or

REQUEST MEDALS ONLINE!
Where medals are mailed from | U.S. Army TACOM
Clothing and Heraldry (PSID)
P.O. Box 57997
Philadelphia, PA 19111-7997
Where to write in case of a problem or an appeal | U.S. Army Human Resources Command
Soldier Program and Services Division - Awards and Decorations Branch
ATTN: AHRC-PDP-A
1600 Spearhead Division Avenue, Dept 480
Fort Knox, KY 40122-5408

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AIR FORCE
(includes Army Air Corps & Army Air Forces)Where to write for medals | National Personnel Records Center
1 Archives Drive
St. Louis, MO 63138 or

REQUEST MEDALS ONLINE!
Where medals are mailed from, and where to write in case of a problem or an appeal | Active Duty Veterans | Reserve & Air Guard Veterans
Headquarters Air Force
Personnel Center
AFPC/DPPPR
550 C Street West, Suite 12
Randolph AFB, TX

Where medals are mailed from | Navy Personnel Command
PERS 312
5751 Honor Drive
Building 769 Room 158
Millington, TN 38055-3120
Where to write in case of a problem or an appeal | Department of the Navy
Chief of Naval Operations (DNS-35)
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350-2000

MARINE CORPSWhere to write for medals | National Personnel Record Center
1 Archives Drive
St. Louis, MO 63138
Where medals are mailed from | Navy Personnel Command
PERS 312
5751 Honor Drive
Building 769 Room 158
Millington, TN 38055-3120
Where to write in case of a problem or an appeal | Commandant of the Marine Corps
Military Awards Branch (MMMA)
2008 Elliot Road
Quantico, VA 22134

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COAST GUARDWhere to write for medals, and where medals are mailed from | Coast Guard Personnel Service Center
4200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 900 (PSC-PSD-MA)
Stop 7200
Arlington, VA 20598-7200
Where to write in case of a problem or an appeal | Commandant U.S. Coast Guard
Medals and Awards Branch
(PMP-4)
Washington, DC 20593-0001

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Important Information for the Next-of-Kin (NOK):

Who is the Next-of-Kin (NOK)?

For the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps & Coast Guard, the NOK is defined as: the un-remarried widow

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Tse Leon Xiang, works at Web Development

Written 21 Jul 2015

1. Mewtwo Strikes Back - 1997

2. Revelation Lugia - 1999

3. Lord of the UNKNOWN Tower - 2000

4. Celebi a Timeless Encounter - 2001

5. Pokémon Heroes - 2002

6. Jirachi Wish Maker - 2003

7. Destiny Deoxys - 2004

8. Lucario and the Mystery of Mew - 2005

9. Pokemon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea, Manaphy- 2006

10. The Rise of Darkrai - 2007

11. Giratina & The Sky Warrior - 2008

12. Arceus and the Jewel of Life - 2009

13. Zoroark: Master of Illusions - 2010

14. White - Victini and Zekrom & Black Victini and Reshiram - 2011 (two movies in 2011)

15. Kyurem VS The Sword of Justice - 2012

16. ExtremeSpeed Genesect's Teaser Streamed - 2013

17. Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction - 2014

18. Hoopa and the Clash of Ages - 2015

19. The Pokemon films mostly release between 10th to 20th in July annually.

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WW1: First Cycle World War “Problem” to World Government “Solution” Global Formula; UN 1-2-3-4

Statement: with regard to the two witnesess and your belief that two seperate witness periods exist and that the WTO is exclusively explicit to both i find scripturally unsupportable.

Some may agree it cannot be proven by scripture. So I outline WW1 world power development to show another way to prove 1914 is the beginning of world government, hence the very entity, that when complete, will TRIGGER the Christ arrival of all time.

We do not need to rely on prophecy alone, to see 4 global war cycles, with the fourth active as GWOT (which can have a phase 2), will all climax into UN presentations, the last of which is world government.

Statement: the glaring defect lies in the fact that the first witness period of 1914-18 was actually based upon an incorrect undestanding of prophecy.

the invisible parousia lie followed by more lies to support it

Gods kingdom has always existed…

no event in 1914 brought it closer to mankind. 1914 is simply a false prophecy by the WTO with an outrageous idea that the imprisonment and subsequent release of Wt officials fullfilled the death and resurrection of the two witnesses of revelation

Well, there is a global event that does bring the Kingdom of God “closer” to mankind, and all they need to do is complete it to find out: “8th King” world government.

WW1-to-world government “image”, cycle 1, is an event and cycle that in fact did warn of the eventual arrival of Christ, when their world government abomination is completed in the future, and its first step, was the 1914-1919 WW1 to League of Nations cycle.

So, we really do have quite a dangerous step to the Lion Christ, who merely awaits them to complete their abomination totally, to then find out what happens when they kick that Lion in the face.

1914-1919 is a valid period of the beginning of the modern global development of world government, utilizing the global war cycle formula to aid it, regardless of prophecy; it is what it is.

WW1: First Cycle World War “Problem” to World Government “Solution” Global Formula

What 1914-1919 allows is understanding the World War formula, and its Global Theme [cyclic formula; WW2, Cold War, GWOT (Dan11:29)] for accelerating needed change en route to world government.

The League of Nations is significant, because its nucleus is that of forming world government, advancing further with every subsequent hot (WW2), warm (GWOT) or cold (Cold War) world war cycle.

World war, in any form destructive or constructive (Cold War; GWOT) is the greatest cyclic power phase that allows the greatest possible sub-national and international changes to occur.

World War, is a “world-war-to-world-government” cycle, in which a UN presentation caps off the cycle, in 1919, 1945 and 1990. So “foreseeing” the final global war phase to produce full world government, is intuitive and predictable now—but it is also in prophecy**.

The Federal Reserve US arm (1913-1914) of London finance “just so happening” to come about with WW1 is no accident. So in WW1 era we saw the two main driving forces of world government emerge, globalist finance (Dan11:42-43* future final cycle), and globalist military internationalization of war. (NATO roots)

*Daniel 11:42-43 Explicit in Coming 8th King Globalized Wealth Control

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Daryl dirtbag

Hello. Today, I'll be starting and introducing to you a series of what is going to be monthly threads. These threads will put two characters against one another and you, the users, discuss which one is likely to win. The purpose of this is for fun, but also fair and in-depth conversation about these certain fights. How far this thing goes depends on how well-received it is by you guys.Each fight will detail both fighters' traits and in addition, two reasons as to why they could win and two reasons for why they couldn't. These fights can be taken into any perspective you wish (for your input). Whether it be based on game-play, lore, science, story events or whatever else, it works. At the end of each thread, the consensus will decide who wins and who doesn't and the thread will be closed.Now, without further delay, let's start the match-up. For this fight, we will be assuming that Sub-Zero has his full arsenal from mortal kombat X and that Scorpion is still a powerful Specter.

Pros/Cons for Sub-Zero

Why he may win?
Ice can potentially cancel out fire.
Sub-Zero's ice arsenal may just be too much for Scorpion.

Why he may NOT win?
Fire can potentially cancel out ice.
Scorpion's diverse set of skills is more than enough to counter Sub-Zero.

Pros/Cons for Scorpion

Why he may win?

Fire can potentially cancel out ice.

Scorpion's Netherrealm abilities can easily throw off Sub-Zero.

Why he may NOT win?

Ice can potentially cancel out fire.

Sub-Zero's ice clones and ice barrier provide consistent defense for Sub-Zero, maybe too much for Scorpion to handle.

Traits & Attributes

Traits: Vast experience with Cryomancy and its many different forms. Examples such as ice manipulation, ice clones and ice weaponry. Well versed in many forms of hand-to-hand combat.

Traits: Pyromancy, typical Netherrealm powers such as manipulation of portals and creature summoning. Skilled with weapons such as his iconic spear and ninja swords. Well versed in many forms of hand-to-hand combat.