Smoking
Everyday 3,000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first started smoking as teenagers. These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in the tobacco wars.
Smokers say they need to smoke because it makes them feel good and more relaxed. It helps to concentrate more and feel at ease. Or, they may just need to smoke because it's so addicting. One of the largest health disputes right now and for a prolonged period of time has been smoking. The smokers are the one's who need to know how bad it really is. It seems the non-smokers are the people who oppose against this topic because they are affected by it too.
Passive smoke or second hand affects the non-smokers too. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, including 200 known poisons. Every time someone smokes, poisons such as benzene, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide are released into the air, which means that not only is the smoker inhaling them but so is everyone else around him. Many studies now show that this secondhand smoke can have harmful effects on non-smokers and even cause them to develop diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease. Secondhand smoke has an especially bad effect on infants and children whose parents smoke. A number of studies show that in their first two years of life, babies of parents who smoke at home have a much higher rate of lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia than babies with nonsmoking parents.
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in theUnited States
Everyday 3,000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first started smoking as teenagers. These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in the tobacco wars.
Smokers say they need to smoke because it makes them feel good and more relaxed. It helps to concentrate more and feel at ease. Or, they may just need to smoke because it's so addicting. One of the largest health disputes right now and for a prolonged period of time has been smoking. The smokers are the one's who need to know how bad it really is. It seems the non-smokers are the people who oppose against this topic because they are affected by it too.
Passive smoke or second hand affects the non-smokers too. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, including 200 known poisons. Every time someone smokes, poisons such as benzene, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide are released into the air, which means that not only is the smoker inhaling them but so is everyone else around him. Many studies now show that this secondhand smoke can have harmful effects on non-smokers and even cause them to develop diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease. Secondhand smoke has an especially bad effect on infants and children whose parents smoke. A number of studies show that in their first two years of life, babies of parents who smoke at home have a much higher rate of lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia than babies with nonsmoking parents.
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the
A- Answer the following questions:
· Pre-reading:
1- Is smoking bad or good habit? Why?
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· While reading:
2- How many children start smoking every year?
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3- How old are most of them?
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4- What did 90 % of all adult smokers say?
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5- Who are the main targets in the tobacco wars?
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6- Why do smokers say about their need to smoke?
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7- What are the largest health disputes right now and for a prolonged period of time?
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8- How many chemicals does tobacco contain?
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9- What poisons are released into the air when some one smokes?
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10-How does every one around the smokers inhaling these poisons?
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11-Does second hand smoke have a bad effect on any infants and children?
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12-What do studies show for the babies of parents who smoke at home?
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13-What does tobacco use cause each year in USA
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B-Choose the correct answer:
1- …………………. use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States
a) Cocaine b) Heroine c) Tobacco
2- Tobacco smoke contains ……………… known poisons.
a) 200 b) 300 c) 400
3- The …………… are the prime target in the tobacco wars.
a) young people b) men c) woman
C- Put true ( √ ) or false ( × ):
1- Most adult smokers said that they first started smoking as old men. ( )
2- Smokers say they need to smoke because it makes them feel bad. ( )
3- Second hand smoke doesn't affect the non-smokers. ( )
4- Second hand smoke has a bad effect on infants and children whose parents smoke. ( )
D- Write the word that has the same meaning from the passage:
1- Paragraph (1) a child or a young person ……………………
2- Paragraph (1) a person that's fully grown ………………….
3- Paragraph (2) not worried or tense …………………………
4- Paragraph (3) a substance that kills you if you drink it ……
5- Paragraph (4) a substance that people smoke in a cigarette ...
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