SMOKING

FOR:

1. I think smoking is a pleasure.

2. Little is known for certain about the tobacco effect on human organism. No visible harm to a smoker. At least no immediate harm.

3. Smoking helps young people to become independent and look like grown-ups.

4. Smoking looks smart and seems that everybody likes smoking.

AGAINST:

1. Smoking is an addiction like drugs. People need it, depend on it, can’t stop it.

2. It looks smart in movies but it is just the form of advertising.

3. Above all smoking is harmful to health and in many countries a warming is printed on every packet of cigarettes.

4. Most of the smokers wish to give up smoking but they are usually weak.

 

XIV. Discuss the following questions with your partner and prepare a report “What you can do to be healthy:

Ø List 3 healthy things you do that make you happy.

Ø What is stress? What kind of things can cause stress? List 3 things that cause you stress (make you feel stressed out).

Ø Do people have the right to smoke when children in the same house or colleagues in the same office have to inhale the smoke? Why can smoking hurt your health?

Ø How many hours of sleep do you need? Do all adults need the same amount of sleep?

Ø Why should most people not drink coffee just before they go to bed? If someone is having trouble sleeping at night, what can that person do?

 

Fill in the chart which will help you to make your report:

  Food/Diet Sport Sleep Smoking Alcohol Stress