How Smoking Affects Your Health

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How Smoking Affects Your Health

There are no physical reasons to start smoking. The body
doesn't need tobacco the way it needs food, water, sleep, and
exercise. In fact, many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like
nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high
enough doses.
The body is smart. It goes on the defense when it's being
poisoned. For this reason, many people find it takes several tries
to get started smoking: First-time smokers often feel pain or
burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or
even throw up the first few times they try tobacco.
The consequences of this poisoning happen gradually. Over the
long term, smoking leads people to develop health problems like
cancer, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), organ damage,
and heart disease. These diseases limit a person's ability to be
normally active and can be fatal. Each time a smoker lights
up, that single cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life.
Smokers not only develop wrinkles and yellow teeth, they also lose bone density, which increases their risk of
osteoporosis , a condition that causes older people to become bent over and their bones to break more easily.
Smokers also tend to be less active than nonsmokers because smoking affects lung power.
Smoking can also cause fertility problems and can impact sexual health in both men and women. Girls who are
on the pill or other hormone-based methods of birth control (like the patch or the ring) increase their risk of
serious health problems, such as heart attacks, if they smoke.
The consequences of smoking may seem very far off, but long-term health problems aren't the only hazard of
smoking. Nicotine and the other toxins in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes can affect a person's body quickly, which
means that teen smokers experience many of these problems:
Bad skin. Because smoking restricts blood vessels, it can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the
skin which is why smokers often appear pale and unhealthy. An Italian study also linked smoking to
an increased risk of getting a type of skin rash called psoriasis.
Bad breath. Cigarettes leave smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath.
Bad-smelling clothes and hair. The smell of stale smoke tends to linger not just on people's clothing,
but on their hair, furniture, and cars. And it's often hard to get the smell of smoke out.
Reduced athletic performance. People who smoke usually can't compete with nonsmoking peers because
the physical effects of smoking (like rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation, and shortness of breath)
impair sports performance.
Greater risk of injury and slower healing time. Smoking affects the body's ability to produce collagen, so
common sports injuries, such as damage to tendons and ligaments, will heal more slowly in smokers
than nonsmokers.
Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than
nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become more sick if they smoke
(and often if they're just around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage
weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies lack the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and
fight off illness properly.
Taken from : http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html
1, Why do people start smoking?
2, What are the long term consequences of smoking?

3,What can smoking produce in your teeth skin and bones?
4,What happen with your athletic performance when you smoke?
5,Write five consequences of smoking.(5 marks)
6,According to the text you can say that:
a. People should smoke
b. People don't have to smoke
c. People must smoke
d. People shouldn't smoke
7,The text can be taken from:
a. A newspaper
b. A web page
8, The author's purpose is :
a. To prevent that teens smoke
c.To advice people to smoke
c. An advertisement
d. A book
b. To say the benefits of smoking

d. To help parents to control their children
For questions 9-20 Complete the sentences using must, mustn't, have to , don't have to, has to, doesnt have to,
should or shouldn't
9,You __________ watch t.v all day. It is not good
10, We _________ to be on time in the school.
11, Teachers __________ to wear uniforms
12, Rosa had an accident . She _________ go to the hospital.
13, You can bring candies if you want: You _____________ to bring them.
14, We ________ respect our teachers and classmates.
15,In our school we________ to help with the cleaning.
16 My mother __________to do the dishes. My father does the dishes everyaday.
17.Drivers __________ respect traffic lights.
18.You __________ cry. This was not a good boyfriend.
19.You __________ ride your motorbike without a helmet.
20.Parents__________ take car of babies.

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READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

How Smoking Affects Your Health

2, What are the long term consequences of smoking?

b. To say the benefits of smoking

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