HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION OPTIONS. Probably the most common high school question is in regard to graduation requirements. Florida public schools require 24 credits to graduate. A credit is defined in Florida Statute 232.2462 as a minimum of 150 hours of bona fide instruction in a designated course of study.. One-half credit is 75 hours of instruction.
1 Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, killing nearly 380,000 people annually. 2  In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 34 seconds. 3  Every 60 seconds, someone in the United States dies from a heart disease-related event. About 720,000 people in the U.S. suffer heart attacks each year. 2  Of these, 515,000 are a first heart attack and 205,000 happen in people who have already had a heart attack. 3  In 2011, about 326,200 people experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States.
Smoking. The primary cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is tobacco smoke (including second-hand or passive exposure). WHO estimates that in 2005 5.4 million people died due to tobacco use. Tobacco-related deaths are projected to increase to 8.3 million deaths per year by 2030.