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Written by Veronica Jewell
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It is important to note that a public place is any place where each member of the society is allowed to gain access to. Smoking in such places should therefore be prohibited and banned because this is a prominent and sensitive place as well.
It is with this reason therefore that no smoking signs should be placed in public places. Cigarettes are harmful to the human body and it is equally important to have public places free from cigarette smoke. Furthermore, tobacco smoke causes environmental Pollution, one important reason to make public places smoke free. Here are some important reasons and hard facts which explain the reasons for having public places smoke free:
1 Enviromental tobacco smoke kills Each year, thousands of people die all over the world due to the deadly diseases caused by smoking. Environmental tobacco smoke causes heart attacks and stroke due to its content; it also strains the heart and blocks blood vessels therefore restricting free flow of blood which later cause a heart attack. The smoke is also harmful to the lungs, it is therefore important to ensure that public places are made a no smoking zone.
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Written by Habib Thompson
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"Critical Mass" is a reality we hate to contemplate when it is in reference to our own artificially enhanced population growth. Western thinking is often at odds with the natural processes of life, therefore seeks to control all environmental and natural processes based on arrogance and ignorance. All organisms if allowed to progress under ideal conditions will eventually start to level off, decline or even crash in spite of availability of food and space. When the population of trees reaches great numbers the population progression is slowed by pests decease and storms etc. The same rules apply to humans and we are again being reminded that all of our efforts to forestall this inevitable truth only result in more extreme corrections. A storm knocks down dying, weak, sick, deceased, very young, very old trees and even some healthy young trees that have never weathered a severe storm before.
The human populations face viral storms like the slow killing HIV virus and now the quick killing H1N1 virus Swine Flu. Humans have attempted to alter the attrition process via drugs, incubators, surgery and a long list of inventions and innovations but these things do not change the inevitable, but only make its effects more pronounced at a later date. The H1N1 Swine Flu virus is doing what it is designed to do cull our populations. If everything remained the same as it is at this time the experts say that they expect the virus to kill at least 11 million people worldwide out of the almost 6 billion alive today. Of course if the H1N1 virus mutates as it has a habit of doing naturally that figure could be much much higher. H1N1 virus is focusing on the very young especially those 2 years old or younger, to a lesser degree those 5 years old or younger, pregnant women, the infirmed, the sick, the weak, the immune-compromised such as people with HIV/AIDS, TB, people with respiratory deceases or lung problems, the very old and last of all a group that is rather surprised by being singled out, "the obese".
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Written by John Dir
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In early times, there were many societies that considered illnesses to be caused by evil spirits that could only be dealt with by using ritual practices performed by a shaman or medicine man. As science progressed to discover microbiology, it was found that many diseases are actually caused by malevolent viruses or bacterial cultures invading the human body and causing damage. Medicine then began to join the battle against these tiny invaders by creating chemical compounds that controlled symptoms or killed the strains of bad bugs that were determined to be responsible for diseases. More time and research soon discovered that the enemy adapted to our efforts to eradicate them from our bodies, and started mutating to become resistant to the various types of chemical compounds we threw at them, and fire up even more harmful strains. In addition to the harmful microbes, there are other types of bacteria and agents that have been found to be both beneficial and even essential to maintaining the balance of human health.
Suspending the current medical approach in curing diseases for the moment, there are a number of intriguing possibilities that surface in examining the nature of these life forms, and the presently accepted approach to dealing with them. Though microbes are definitely a variation from our own physical form, there are some similarities worth noting. It has been observed that all life seems capable of some sort of social structure beyond the scope of individual members of a group, and within the confines of a collective communication with members of like kind. Survival depends on adaptation to hostile environmental changes, and the instinct for survival is intrinsic even in the lowest forms of life. When any sort of life is threatened with eradication, it takes whatever measures are within its capacity to preserve as much of its own kind as possible. This sort of natural function is true for both plants and animals, and has certainly proven equally true for even the microscopic forms of life. For years, modern medicine has approached the cure of diseases by launching attacks against microbes with chemicals aimed at killing the disease without harming the host. As the battle for our own survival continues, medicines intended for controlling illnesses have moved into categories that just treat symptoms while our own natural defenses battle for supremacy, or introducing cures that cause side effects which can be more harmful than the disease.
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