Jan 3, 2010

Health | For Further Discussion

Chapter 1
1. The American Cancer Society (ACS) argues that smoking causes heart disease, cancer, emphysema, and numerous other maladies. Eric Boyd maintains that antismoking activists have exaggerated the health risks of smoking. Whose argument do you find most convincing and why?

2. According to Tom Farley and Deborah Cohen, recommendations by health experts to eat less and exercise more have failed to reduce the problem of obesity in America. To combat the epidemic of obesity, Farley and Cohen suggest reducing the availability of junk food, increasing access to...