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4. Smoking: a deadly habit
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While advertisements may show otherwise, smoking is dangerous to your
health. Smoking may result in death and disability, and it lowers life expec-
tancy. While developing countries have more male smokers, industrialised
countries are showing an increase in female smokers. Smoking affects wom-
en’s health even more so than men’s, causing decreased fertility and in-
creased chances of birth defects for children of smokers.
Smoking also harms non-smokers. Passive smoking occurs when non-smok-
ers breathe in air contaminated by smoke. Since passive smoking has been
shown to harm the health of non-smokers, many countries have passed laws
banning smoking in the workplace.
Many smokers see smoking as something they do in social situations without
thinking about the addictive properties of nicotine, and teens, especially,
are influenced by peer opinion. Some industrialised countries have prohib-
ited cigarette marketing, but unfortunately this means tobacco companies
have turned to developing countries to increase their sales. Sadly, these
countries may look more towards the economic benefits of the business and
may ignore the health risks.
Cigarette ads don’t show the many ways that smoking can harm your health.
However, regardless of how long you’ve been smoking, your health improves
once you quit.
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Text 1: a; text 2: b; text 3: b; text 4: a.
3.
1) poisons
2) cigarette
3) energy
4) blood
5) cancer
6) lungs
7) cough
8) dirt
9) damaged
10) pneumonia
4. TITLE:
Smoking: a deadly habit
AUTHOR:
Isabel Carter
NEWSPAPER:
Footsteps, Issue 23, published by Tearfund
DATE:
June 1995
SUBJECT:
Smoking
THESIS:
Smoking is bad for your health.
EVIDENCE:
• Smoking kills one in four smokers and reduces life expectancy.
• Women are affected more severely by smoking than men since it causes
fertility problems and can harm unborn children.
• An increase in smoking can cause a country’s death rate to increase 25
years later.