Номер 2, страница 77 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

Unit three, lesson five, exercise two A.

No one in their right mind would drink a cocktail made from arsenic, contained in rat poison, nicotine, used in insecticides, and acetone, found in nail polish remover.

So why breathe these substances into your body?

Did you know that cigarette smoke contains over four thousand chemicals, including around forty six carcinogens?

All these chemicals are breathed into the body while smoking a cigarette.

One out of ten men in the world is a smoker. And every eight seconds someone dies because of this habit.

According to the statistics, smoking kills around five million people a year.

More than forty diseases are associated with smoking. It increases the risk of cancer, bronchitis, heart diseases, et cetera.

Nicotine decreases the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.

The immune system of an active smoker is so bad that they take more time to recover from any disease.

Vitamin C is killed by smoking.

According to studies, an active smoker is likely to live fourteen years less than non-smokers.

Smoking also affects the so-called passive smokers.

If somebody smokes in the room, infants below eighteen months of age can get bronchitis and pneumonia.

However, it is never too late to decide on choosing a healthy way of life.

The body can go back to its normal condition soon after you say goodbye to your very last cigarette.

One year after people stop smoking, the heart diseases are reduced by twenty percent.

So, just say, I am never ever going to smoke away my life and health and be happy.

Postscriptum global statistics show that about eighty thousand to one hundred thousand teens start smoking every day.

This means that every year millions of young people begin using tobacco worldwide.

Don't join them.

Take care of your health.