Nearly 20% of the worlds population takes part in the habit of smoking and that was in 2014. While it may be fun and enjoyable in the beginning, you are slowly killing your body and maybe hurting those around you. Even in the comfort of your own apartment, smoke can seep into walls and through vents, going into your neighbors apartment. If they have a baby, you could be harming that helpless child as well. to your own body, smoking damages small airways in your lungs and ruins the alveoli sacs, often leading to COPD, other lung diseases and cancer. You don’t want pink lungs turning into a black blob.
When you look up information on smoking, there are a lot of sources out there that can tell us the dangers and come in handy. However, there are a lot of sources that can provide false information. Below are examples of these sources and ways to identify if what you are looking at is true.
Reliable sources:
- American Heart Association
- Information from the CDC
- Studies from journals
Unreliable sources:
- Wikipedia
Heres Why!
Reliable sources such as those above, are from researches backed my the government or written by professionals who have studied smoking and preformed research that must go through extensive examination before it can be published and released by the public. Unreliable sources such as those listed above, can be written by any ole average Joe on the streat with access to internet without being reviewed by professionals or a professional board. Yay free speech!
- Originally started by physicians and social workers to find a cure for heart disease. To this day, it is led by many other specialties in the medical field. They provide information ranging from the heart, lungs, cardiovascular system, and healthy living. It is a great source for those looking to improve their life styles to prevent disease to those struggling with a heart disease and needed help to cure or cope with their problems. It doesn’t hurt anyone to go check it out! It even helps decipher similarities and differences such as e-cigarets vaping, and regular cigarettes.
Center for Disease and Control
- Founded in 1946 its primary mission was to prevent malaria from spreading across the nation. Today their goal is to protect us from serious heath disease. Currently, they are studying and getting under control the corona virus. Backed my many professional scientists and researches they release info to the public to help keep us safe in our everyday lives. Any one who can gain access to the internet or a library has access to their information. In regards to cigarettes and smoking, they can give you information on how exactly it affects not only you but others as well.
Journal Example: Cigarette smoking: Implications fo psychiatric illness.
- Published Journals go through extensive critique and review before they can be published and open to the public. This is done by other professionals who look for reliability and consistency. In other words, can the study and results be replicated and do they find what they were looking for. In this case, this article can help explain the psychiatric affects of smoking. This benefits all smokers and none smokers but could be bad for those who don’t want to accept what is happening to them. They can even help explain the journey of smoking has taken in the world.
- Although it is a great idea to have an online encyclopedia, the expanse of knowledge in this world is too great to one or even four to cover. Thus, this website was made so that anyone can add info. While this is a great idea it can lead to a lot of false information. While it may be great for someone to know some quick simple facts about George Washington, it can be bad for that person as well if he were to give a report on him. As a source of information, someone can write in there that he had six toes, and there is no way to justify or prove that.
- Used by hundreds of millions around the world, this social media app was created in 2006 for people to follow along with and provide another opportunity for communication with anyone from anywhere. Over time is has been used as a base for campaigning and advertising as well. Getting updates about what has been happening globally and locally.
- While a great source for those wanting quick information such as how the slopes are in Heavenly and what ski lifts are open, it can be a bad source when it comes to heavy topics such as when politics are involved. Anyone can comment their own opinion and it is hard tp decipher what are strongly help opinions from facts. Often, tweets only show one side of the story. Thus you have to be very careful where the info is coming from.
- Much like twitter, this social media platform was created in 2004. Like twitter it has evolved into another great way to communicate with other globally. It can be used as a way to create events, make plans with other, tell other how you are feeling, and so on so forth. It is great for those who want to see what events are happening around you and who is going. Much like twitter, it too has no way of confirming sources and must be aware of spam. You can never trust what you read.
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I Want You, To Find The Right Source!
With all this in mind, it is important you check your sources before believing the information that you are reading. All sources have their advantages and disadvantages. However, when deal with something as serious as smoking, it is vital that you get the right information!
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