Lighting Up

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While the past 40 years have seen significant declines in adult smoking, this is not the case among young adults, who have the highest prevalence of smoking of all other age groups. At a time when just about everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, why do so many college students smoke? Is it a short lived phase or do they continue throughout the college years? And what happens after college, when they enter the “real world”? Drawing on interviews and focus groups with hundreds of young adults, Lighting Up takes the reader into their everyday lives to explore social smoking. Mimi Nichter argues that we must understand more about the meaning of social and low level smoking to youth, the social contexts that cause them to take up (or not take up) the habit, and the way that smoking plays a large role in students’ social lives. Nichter examines how smoking facilitates social interaction, helps young people express and explore their identity, and serves as a means for communicating emotional states. Most college students who smoked socially were confident that “this was no big deal.” After all, they were “not really smokers” and they would only be smoking for a short time. But, as graduation neared, they expressed ambivalence or reluctance to quit. As many grads today step into an uncertain future, where the prospect of finding a good job in a timely manner is unlikely, their 20s may be a time of great stress and instability. For those who have come to depend on the comfort of cigarettes during college, this array of life stressors may make cutting back or quitting more difficult, despite one’s intentions and understandings of the harms of tobacco. And emerging products on the market, like e-cigarettes, offer an opportunity to move from smoking to vaping. Lighting Up considers how smoking fits into the lives of young adults and how uncertain times may lead to uncertain smoking trajectories that reach into adulthood.

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Genre : Education
Author : Mimi Nichter
Publisher : NYU Press
Release : 2015-02-13
File : 275 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780814758397


Lighting Up A Hidden World

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The onset can be fast and shocking or slow and insidious. It can happen to anyone at any age. A flu, a vaccination, or an infection can be the innocent beginnings to the potentially life-long and disabling illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which is more commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or ME/CFS in North America. In the mid 1980s, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was called in by concerned doctors who were witnessing an influx of patients with a mysterious illness. Eventually the CDC labeled the condition “chronic fatigue syndrome” which turned out to be very misleading. Decades later, in 2016, health agencies are finally beginning to agree with international experts that ME/CFS is a serious, chronic, multi-system illness. Through artwork, poetry, story-telling, and meticulous research, Lighting Up a Hidden World: CFS and ME takes readers into the fascinating, yet frightening, landscape of ME/CFS. Author Valerie Free shares her personal experiences and delivers illuminating first-hand perspectives from patients, caregivers, journalists, and medical professionals from within the global community in short easy-to-read segments. These stories reveal the disgrace, controversy, and tragedy of worldwide neglect by political and health care systems, leaving ME/CFS research underfunded and millions of people marginalized, sick, and socially unsupported. Lighting Up a Hidden World: CFS and ME advocates for those too ill to speak out, abounds with patient resources, and offers realistic hope for the future. People living with this illness, along with their family and friends, will find compassion and camaraderie in its pages. This book reaches beyond the ME/CFS community exposing the themes of human suffering, resilience, and the need for social change.

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Genre : Health & Fitness
Author : Valerie Free
Publisher : FriesenPress
Release : 2016-09-30
File : 514 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781460280515


Lighting Up The World

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An introduction to the life of the man who developed the electric light bulb and many other inventions.

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Genre : Inventors
Author : Julia Wall
Publisher : Learning Media Ltd
Release : 2005
File : 36 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0790311690


Wayside Pictures Through France Holland Belgium And Up The Rhine

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Author : Robert Bell
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Release : 1862
File : 448 Pages
ISBN-13 : KBNL:KBNL03000156845


The Conflict Korea 1953 Last Stand For Pork Chop Hill

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
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File : 182 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781434953599


Free Will Libertarianism Alternative Possibilities And Moral Responsibility

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2005
File : 490 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415327296


Minerva S Shield

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The world has come to an end. Or has it? What starts out as a long overdue father-and-son vacation immediately becomes more complicated, when they uncover an unusual coin in the dirt. Frighteningly, its as if the planet is thrown into upheaval over this innocent discovery. All of a sudden, the FBI shows up at their door asking lots of questions, planting the seeds of paranoia, doubt and worry. The neighbors start acting strangely, almost on the verge of panic. The nearby military base is abandoned overnight and the weather has never been so unpredictable. As everything falls apart around them, no one is certain what is happening. There is no cell phone service, no radio or TV, no form of communication whatsoever. What should the people prepare for - the ever-popular zombie apocalypse, or global economic collapse, another American civil war, nuclear or biological terrorist attack, super volcano or titanic earthquake, planet-wide meteorological disaster, impending asteroid collision, or perhaps an alien invasion from outer space? While the masses flee in every direction, a small organized group finds refuge in a corporate data bunker, which was once a military facility. Here, thirty people are thrown together, perhaps by fate or coincidence, they come to wait out the final days, the dreaded apocalypse. Without warning or explanation, their lives are spared by the power of the mysterious coin Minervas Shield. When they emerge from inside the mountain, however, they find a world relatively undamaged. Yet there is no trace that people ever existed. There are no bodies, no skeletons, not a single trace. It is a world without humans. This diverse community of survivors quickly bands together to gather supplies and hammer out a new existence, where they appear to be the only living souls. Still, they are curious about what really happened that fateful day. And someone, or something, is watching them as well.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Derek Hart
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2013-09-25
File : 373 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781491709009


The Electrical Engineer

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Genre : Electric engineering
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Release : 1889
File : 538 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015080386157


Video Marketing Made Simple For Business Owners

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Video Marketing is literally on fire! Embrace the Power and Potential of Video Marketing And use this medium to catapult your web business to the next level. Check out on “ Video Marketing Made Simple For Business Owners ” Finally, you have this once in lifetime opportunity to get your hands on the video marketing tools & Strategies that are generating million dollar revenues . Businesses invest a lot of time determining who their target demographic is, and for good reason. When a business knows which demographic is buying and using their product, it’s going to be easier to market to that demographic. Middle-aged women are going to respond to ads differently than millennials; and what one group finds engaging and interesting, another may not. So it’s important for businesses to understand what demographic they are targeting so they get the marketing just right for them. But, businesses don’t have to go to such trouble when they’re using video marketing because video marketing reaches every demographic and is interesting to every demographic. And this is because men and women, and people of every age, love video. As long as it’s interesting and creative, people will like a video regardless of their background or history. This can be a bonus for businesses that know who their demographic is, simply because more people will share it and like it, even if they don’t make up part of the business’ demographic. But it’s also especially good news for businesses with a shifting demographic, or for those that don’t know how makes up their demographic. That happens sometimes when a business changes directions or changes their product or service slightly, and then they have to start back at square one with their marketing efforts. But when a business has already created videos as part of their marketing plan, they don’t have to change a thing because those videos will already be suitable for every demographic. Imagine one type of marketing that appeals to every single demographic. It seems too good to be true, but it’s not. That type of marketing is video marketing, and reaching every demographic is just one very good reason why every business should be investing in it.

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Genre : Computers
Author : Raymond Wayne
Publisher : Estalontech
Release : 2020-09-18
File : 233 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788835896722


Journal Of The Royal Society Of Arts

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Genre : Arts
Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
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Release : 1883
File : 1190 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112007627778