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Healthy living guide

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Bad habits and problems of young people.

 

Many people now think less about their health, but there are people that do think about it. Those habits are smoking, drinking alcohol, taking drugs and so on. Smoking makes teeth yellow and it helps people to relax. Drinking alcohol makes speech unclear. And taking drugs makes brain centers sleep. They cause cancer, pneumonia, and cough. Many bad habits affect the whole family, people around you, and your social controls.

Now, as well as earlier-hundred years ago and thousand years ago- youth is considered as the nicest time of the life. Daily a young man gets to know something new about people and the world. For the first time one falls in love, for the first one feels romantic. And there is still so much in the future what one does not know yet, only feels…

 

 

Early Nicotine Addition.

“The first puff on a cigarette could be enough to hook a young teenager into addiction,” reports Canada’s National Post newspaper. “The extraordinary findings upend the prevailing view about nicotine addiction being a slowly acquired process that occurs only after several years of heavy smoking.” In a study of 1,200 teenager over researchers found that “ physical addiction is a much stronger force than peer pressure, even among those who smoked only rarely,” the paper said. According to the study, “nicotine dependence symptoms appear in many young tobacco users between the first exposure to nicotine and the onset of daily smoking.” The researchers say that antismoking campaigns should be adapted not only to help youths resist the pressure to smoke but also to help those who have smoked to overcome nicotine dependence.

  

Smoking in GB and America.  

 

The practice of smoking tobacco originated among American Indians in Western North America, where tobacco is native. After the colonization of the Americas tobacco came to Europe. Today, it is widespread throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization, it is most common in East Asia, where as two thirds of all adult males smoke tobacco. As more and more people realize smoking damages their health, the practice has rapidly destined in recent years in the United States, Canada and Western Europe.

Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which form a strong physical and psychological dependence. Nicotine сап be as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Smoking can cause serious health problems, such as heart diseases, cancer and other disorders. Recent studies show that smoking decreases life expectancy by about 10 years.

Most smokers say they smoking, which is part of the reason why many continue to do so even though they know about the risk to their health. Another reason for smoking is a social one. Asking for a cigarette is a commonly accepted social gesture and an easy way to start a conversation. Smokers also say that smoking helps them both to relax and concentrate.

Although some smokers consider smoking to be a relaxing, pleasurable, social activity, many others view it as a bad habit and want to give up. There are more people in the society that neither smoke themselves nor accept other people smoking.

 Americans smoke six thousand million cigarettes every year (1970 figures). This is roughly the equivalent of 4,195 cigarettes a year for every person in the country 18 years or older. It is estimated that 51% of American men smoke compared with 34% of American women.

Since 1939, numerous scientific studies have been conducted to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. The trend of the evidence has been consistent and indicates that there is a serious health risk. Research teams have conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable double that tobacco smoking, particularly cigarette smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy.

Cigarette smoking is believed by most research workers to be an important factor in the development of cancer of the lungs and throat and is believed to be related to cancer of the bladder and the oral cavity. 

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Smoking in Russia.

 

At breaks our college yard is usually full of smokers. And why not? Sure, everybody knows that cigarettes greatly increase chance of getting lung cancer, and they shorten people’s life, but if somebody wants to smoke that’s fine by me.

The simplest way of protesting against something is by boycotting it. If you don’t like abortions, don’t have one; if you don’t like violence, don’t be aggressive; if you don’t like smoking, don’t smoke. It is that simple.

But there is one problem. It is usually up to you to decide if you want to do something or not. With passive smoking, other people decide for you and I don’t like it.

As I said before, I have no problem with other people smoking; I do have a problem with them forcing me to smoke. Yes, I could go and stand somewhere else, but they say they take care of our health in college. The “No Smoking” signs are a start, but simply posting notices about the place isn’t going to help when the rule is ignored by both students and teachers.

If they like smoke that much, why blow it at me?!

 

Cancer!!!  

 

Male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than non-smoking males. The majority of physicians and researchers consider these relationships proved to their satisfaction and say, “Give up smoking, If you don’t smoke-do not start!”

Some competent physicians and research workers-though their small number is dwindling even further-are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking on health. They consider the increase in respiratory deceases and various forms of cancer may possibly be explained by other factors in the complex human environment-atmospheric pollution, increased nervous stress, chemical substances in processed food, or chemical pesticides that are now being used by farmers in vast quantities to destroy insect and small animals. Smokers who develop cancer or lung diseases, they say, may also, by coincidence, live in industrial areas, or eat more canned food. Gradually, however, research is isolating all other possible factors and proving them to be statistically irrelevant. Apart from statistics, it might be helpful to look at what smoking tobacco actually does to the human body. Smoke is a mixture of gases, vaporized chemicals of ash, and other solids. There is also nicotine, which is a powerful poison, and black tar. As the smoke is breathed in, all these components form deposits on the membranes of the lungs and cancer begins at this point.

    

Do you know that only 13 % of the population smoke in the USA, but in Russia – more than 76 %. 400.000 people die in Russia every year as a result of smoking. Smoking is a serious risk. Think twice before starting.

 

 

 

  • Tobacco use killed one hundred million people in the 20th century and if current trends continue, will kill one billion people in the 21st century;

  • Almost one billion men (35 percent in developed countries and 50 % in developing countries) and 250 million women (22 % of women in developed countries and 9 %in developing countries) smoke cigarettes;

  • 5 million people will die worldwide this year from tobacco-related diseases;

  • By 2025, tobacco will be the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, killing more than 10 million people every year; 70 % of these deaths will occur in developing countries;

  • Worldwide, over 15 billion cigarettes are smoked every day;
    The top five cigarette consuming countries are: China, United States, Russia, Japan and Indonesia
      

  

How to help give up smoking?

 

u     Parents should give up smoking themselves.

u     We should help a person get out of the bad habit of. Playing, resting, walking, conversations are good helpers against smoking.

u     We should support a person if he/she would like to stop smoking.

u     We should make friends with a person and convince him/her to stop smoking.

u     Be not afraid a company of a smoking person, or help overcome this bad habit.

u     We should involve a smoker in different kinds of activities.

 

 

 

 

1.What do bad habits make?
2.Hat diseases do bad habits cause?
3.What measures does our state take against bad habits?
 

 

Key 4.

 

 

WHAT EFFECTS CAN ALCOHOL HAVE ON YOU?

 

 

  • Alcohol goes directly into the bloodstream which is why it has effects on every system in the body;
  • Heavy drinking can cause cirrhosis and cancer of the liver;
  • Alcohol abuse can lead to both homicides and suicides;
  • Long-term effects of heavy alcohol use include loss of appetite, vitamin deficiencies, stomach ailments, heart and central nervous system damage, and memory loss;
  • Alcohol blocks the messages going to your brain and alters your perceptions and emotions, vision, hearing, and coordination.

 

 QUICK TIPS AND FACTS ABOUT ALCOHOL

 

  • One 12-ounce beer has as much alcohol as a 1.5-ounce shot of whiskey or a 5-ounce glass of wine, or wine coolers. 

  • Drinking increases the risk of injury. Car crashes, falls, burns, drowning, and suicide are all linked to alcohol and other drug use.

  • Alcohol can ruin your looks, give you bad breath, and make you gain weight.
    Drinking can lead to intoxication and even death.
  • Drinking puts your health, education, family ties, and social life at risk. 
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  • Increases in blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature;
  • Reduction of the body’s ability to resist and combat infection;
  • Violent, erratic, or paranoid behavior;
  • Hallucinations and "coke bugs" -- a sensation of imaginary insects crawling over the skin;
  • "Cocaine psychosis" -- losing touch with reality, loss of interest in friends, family, sports, hobbies, and other activities


Get a head!Don't drugs!

 

Drug use can make you depressed, and contribute to

slipping grades.


Using drugs won’t help you escape your

 

problems, it will only create more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

     

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