...Effects of smoking...

I got some information from a web called Teens health. You don’t have physical reasons to smoke. Your body doesn’t need tobacco like it will need water, food, exercise and sleep. The body's smart and it goes on the defense when it's being poisoned. For these reason people need to try smoking many times to get started smoking. First smokers feel like a pain or a burn in there throat. Others feel sick and wanting to throw up.

The consequences of these poisoning happens gradually. Over the long time of smoking this causes people to have serious health problems like cancer , emphysema, and lung disease and organ damage. These diseases strict a person to be normal active as other who doesn't smoke. Each time you smoke a cigarette or a tobacco you will get 5 to 12 minutes of your life.

Here we have an example of a healthy lung tissue and a diseased lung tissue.

Smoker not only put there teeth yellow, they also decrease bones weight and increase running the risk of having osteoporosis. is a condition that causes older people bones to break apart easily. Smokers are also less active than non-smoker because smoking affects lungs power. Also smoking can cause fertility problems between man and women.

Many teenagers aren't aware of the problems beg problems that smoking causes. They may think it would not cause so much damage, but it yes. Here we have some problems smoking can cause:

Bad skin: since smoking cause a lot of damage, one of them is that you will have less blood in your body. So that will make your skin color pale.

Bad breath: cigarette will maintain you with bad breath all the time. That is a reason why people eat a lot of trident white gum, because it gives a better breath.

Bad smelling clothe and hair: the smoke smelling tends to stick on your body. That doesn’t lives only on your clothe. Also on your hair, car, furniture and everywhere you smoke. The smell of smoke is really hard to get off.

Reduced athletic performance: people who smoke usually can’t compete with people who don’t smoke because physical effects of smoking.

Increased risk of illness: studies say that people who smoke get more bronchitis, fever, colds and disease. People with certain health conditions like asthma get sicker if they smoke. Teens who smoke get their body lack of nutrients they need in order to grow, develop, and fight of illness properly.

I think that if you know that smoking affects your health why consuming it. If you get to smoke a lot you will get serious health problems like emphysema and cancer. Also those serious health problems would not only affect you, it will also affect your family because you run a huge risk of dying. So you need to think in your family too. If you smoke also you are not going to be as active as a normal person. Do you want to have your lungs like the one shown?

Also I don’t think someone will like you if they see you with a cigarette in there hand. Besides that your teeth will be yellow. Also your hair will smell horrible and you will have bad breath. And when someone enters your car it will smell cigarette. I really don’t recommend you to smoke, you will not have benefits, and you will have bad things.

I will want to know about in how many time you will get lung disease. How those it affects to your lungs And smelling the smoke that the cigarette exhales, and you breath.

""Causes and Effects of smoking""

I got some information from a web page called Teens Health. Smoking is a big problem for people and teenagers. Smoking can cause a lot of diseases like cancer, heart disease and emphysema. When a person begins to smoke they spend a lot of money buying cigarettes. Maybe they could spend millions of dolars because they buy a lot of cigarettes. When they start for their first time to smoke, as time passes they would not left it becuase of addiction. Smoking is really hard to break, for example tobacco has nicotine which is a drug that makes people addicted to it. Also heroine is another dangerous drug that your body gets from tobacco so you get to use it just to feel normal.

The majority of the people start smoking before they are 18 years old. Some of them smoke because they think they can look older. They really don’t look older they look like pathetic teens with yellow teeth and inmature personality. Others start smoking because they think they get relax. It is completely the opposite because the heart bits faster than normal. Others start smoking because their friends do it and because they think they look cool. Other people do it to feel rebellious. Almost all the time is because they have problems with their families or their sorroundings. Also some people specially girls start smoking because they think they will loose weight. The illness like lung disease and cancer make you loose weight. Also another reason why people smoke is because their family members do it. In the past years doctors sometimes had acepted cigarettes, they said that it was good for relaxing so this made fathers tell their sons that it wasn’t too bad. People think that smoking gives them elegance, sophisticated personalities, and make them cool. All of these are wrong because what smoking makes is to put people in a bad physical mode.

I think people are really dumb by wasting the money buying cigarettes which the only thing cigarettes will cause is harm. Also for what reason tasting it if you all know that the only thing this cause is harm and if you taste it the most possible thing that will happen is that you will get addicted because of the nicotine. I think smoking is the one of the biggest problems that the world is suffering. What worries me is that smoking is not just affecting the people that do it, it also affects the whole world, and because when you smoke the smoke gets to the atmosphere then to the ozone layer and makes the ozone holes. Teenagers are the future of the world and they are destroying the future. Its horrible.

Do you really think somebody looks cool with a cigarette in its hand? I dont think so, I think it looks completely pathetic. I think people who are younger of 18 years are still “babies”. It isn’t still in the university. That means they still depend on their parents. Smoking is not the best way to make your pants fit. While you make your pants fit you will make harm to your lungs. Also I think that if your family is not giving the best example you should not pay attention to them. The best thing you could do is to follow the examples that your school gives to you.

My path leads to a point wich is very important in our lifes. I will want to now how smoking in teens affects their lungs if they are so young. Also how many years you will loose from your life if you smoke before you are 18 years old.

Cigarret..

Cigarette
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A lit cigarette will burn to ash from one end.
A cigarette is a product manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves, which are rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder (generally less than 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter). In recent years, the tax policies of governments has led to the practice of using not just the leaves, but the plant stem also.[1] The stem is first crushed and cut to resemble the leaf before being merged or blended into the cut leaf.[2] The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder for the purpose of inhalation of its smoke from the other (usually filtered) end, which is usually inserted in the mouth. They are sometimes smoked with a cigarette holder. The term cigarette, as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as cannabis.
A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller size (hence the name), use of processed leaf, and white paper wrapping; cigars are typically composed entirely of whole leaf tobacco. Cigarettes were largely unknown in the English-speaking world before the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkish comrades, who resorted to rolling their tobacco with newsprint.[3]
Cigarette Smoking-Related Mortality
Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, more than 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking. In fact, one in every five deaths in the United States is smoking related. Every year, smoking kills more than 276,000 men and 142,000 women.1
Between 1960 and 1990, deaths from lung cancer among women have increased by more than 400%—exceeding breast cancer deaths in the mid-1980s.2 The American Cancer Society estimated that in 1994, 64,300 women died from lung cancer and 44,300 died from breast cancer.3
Men who smoke increase their risk of death from lung cancer by more than 22 times and from bronchitis and emphysema by nearly 10 times. Women who smoke increase their risk of dying from lung cancer by nearly 12 times and the risk of dying from bronchitis and emphysema by more than 10 times. Smoking triples the risk of dying from heart disease among middle-aged men and women.1
Every year in the United States, premature deaths from smoking rob more than five million years from the potential lifespan of those who have died.1
Annually, exposure to secondhand smoke (or environmental tobacco smoke) causes an estimated 3,000 deaths from lung cancer among American adults.4 Scientific studies also link secondhand smoke with heart disease.
Disease
Men
Women
Overall




Cancers



Lung
81,179
35,741
116,920
Lung from ETS
1,055
1,945
3,000
Other
21,659
9,743
31,402
Total
103,893
47,429
151,322




Cardiovascular Diseases


Hypertension
3,233
2,151
5,450
Heart Disease
88,644
45,591
134,235
Stroke
14,978
8,303
23,281
Other
11,682
5,172
16,854
Total
118,603
61,117
179,820




Respiratory Diseases


Pneumonia
11,292
7,881
19,173
Bronchitis/ Emphysema
9,234
5,541
14,865
Chronic Airway Obstruction
30,385
18,579
48,982
Other
787
668
1,455
Total
51,788
32,689
84,475




Diseases Among Infants
1,006
705
1,711
Burn Deaths
863
499
1,362
All Causes
276,153
142,537
418,690

References
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking-attributable mortality and years of potential life lost — United States, 1990. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1993;42(33):645-8.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mortality trends for selected smoking-related and breast cancer — United States, 1950-1990. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1993;42(44):857, 863-6.
3. American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures — 1996. Atlanta (GA): American Cancer Society, 1996.
4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders. Washington (DC): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development. EPA/600/6-90/006F. December 1992.

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Do you think alcohol and drugs are necessary in your daily life?

Hi dodes! I am suad yidios from Mr.Hide class, and Cartagena. I am very glad of all those questions you had post. They are really interesting to investigate. Today I am talking about two very interestings themes. I am talking about alcohol and cigarret. I expect you really pay attention to this because is better to listen than to ignore things.

Here in cartagena we are suffering serius problems with alcohol. Alcohol is a drink that gets you adicted. It is something that people consume if they are sad , group pression, , or because you are in a meeting and they give you a drink.When you consume alcohol because you are sad that is very bad. You are consumig somethin that is not definitly good for your body just because you feel bad. If you dont know, that makes you feel more sad because you are more sensible. Alcohol is not the best way that you can feel better. The most pathetic reason theat you drink alcohol is because group pression. Do yuo drink alcohol ( something that is harmfull for you health) just to be cool? No! You are coo because you are fun, good friend , comprensive. Not because you drink alcohol. I dont think is very nice of some of you who tell to your “friends” , if you dont drink alcohol you are not in our group. Oh my god that is completely pathetic! Instead of doing that you should say: good job dont drink this will be very harmfull for your health. If it is because you are in a meeting, is not so bad because you are not drinking it because you like it. You are drinking it for education . i think we you drink in a meeting that could be called social drinks. They are still bad because is alcohol but not as bad as other reasons.

Cigarret is a very serios problem in the world. Cigarret is an addiction. When you consume cigarret is because you want to try it or it is that your body asks for it because is all ready use to it. When you want to try it, is mainly because your friends do it. When your body asks for it is now a serious problem because is difficult to leave it because you are just to it. People sometimes smoke 1 package daily and for them is nothing. Cigarret produces cancer and you can die. Cigarret is not only affecting your health. Is affecting your entire world. Dont you that lots of people smoke , because they like , their body ask for it, or they just think it is the style. All that smokes collects and gets up to the ozone layer. It starts making ozone holes, then the sun will penetrate more and will start melting the ice. The water level will get higher and we will end up sinking. Everybody says like one cigarret will not affect. That is what everyone says , and anybody cares.

Well , I expect you learn a little about this, and you dont do inappropiate things. Alcohol and drugs is not needed. Just dont do it. It wiil not give you benefitsit will just cause you problems and problems to the whole world. Because dont think that it just affects you. It affects the whole world!

...Things to do in Cartagena...

Hi, I am Suad Y. from Cartagena, Colombia. Here you will find the answer of many questions they had post me. Hi my favorite I like to hang here in Cartagena are several places. One of them is in the campito. There I was almost all the thirteen to fifteen years old meet. There we can eat pizza and the have a very good dessert that it can’t be a cookie, an ice cream, and brownie with ice-cream. We go to the campito, or we stay there talking with our friends.

Also we can go to see movies. Since Cartagena is little, in the part of Boca Grande and Castillo Grande we usually no each other. Almost all of us like the same movies. So when there is an interesting movie the theater is really full. Instead just older people go. After we finish watching the movie, we go to eat to Mc Donald that is really close.
Another cool place to go is to MacDonald. MacDonald is a fast food restaurant. The sell a variety of. For example hamburger, nuggets and delicious dessert. We sometimes go there on Fridays.

Another cool place is when we hang out in the house of a friend. We usually go to a house of a friend. In there we goof around, we talk, or we see a movie. While watching the movie we eat popcorns or some potato chips.

Something really cool are when we do sleepovers. We do a set of game really interesting and cool. Then we mess around with our friends. Also we watch a movie. And while doing that we laugh and lots of things.

Another thing that is very cool to do in Cartagena is to go to parties. In parties we dance whether alone or with your friends and boys, it’s really cool. Also people of your school go without being invited but obviously you know them, and it’s really cool. In parties, we also do games that consist in the one who most dance. That is really cool because you get really exited if you win, but if not you still participated.

One of the most things I love to do in Cartagena is to go to the beach. The beach is really cool. In there you have a lot of things to do you could play soccer and volleyball. You can dive. You do massage because there are girls who offer a massage and you pay money. You could a series of fun and interesting things.

Also is really cool to go to the pool. There you can do lots of games like Marco polo, sleepy shark, color of shark, the one who resists more inside the pool and more. We also get relax you don’t have stress. You talk with your friends and all does stuff.

Well I expect you enjoy all the things you can do in Cartagena. Let’s see if that will motivate you to come and to do this all fun things. Post me comments, bye.