The document discusses the health risks of smoking and reasons why people start smoking. It notes smoking can cause serious health issues like cancer and heart disease. It also discusses the addictive nature of nicotine and challenges of quitting. Peer pressure from friends and exposure to smoking in media are presented as influences that encourage youth to start smoking.

1. General Paper English’s Forum
Group 1
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2.  It refers to the inhalation and exhalation of fumes
from burning tobacco in cigars, cigarettes and
pipes.
 It can cause dangerous consequences to one’s
health such as heart attack, lung cancer, problem
in bronchitis, etc.

3.  Pleasurable.
 Powerful tool of relieving
stress.
 Cool and trendy.
 Influences or peer pressure.
 Act of rebel (against parents.)
 Effects of movies, music
videos& films.
 Smokers surrounding.

4.  These substances are
POISONOUS and in
the long run can
cause cancers in
humans.
 What makes it
addictive?
A harmful and
addictive carcinogen
called NICOTINE.

6.  STARTING smoking and addiction to it could be driven
to a large degree by your genes.
 Smoking-related behaviours and attitudes of
significant others (especially friends and parents) are
among the most consistent predictors of adolescent
smoking.
 One of the major influences on the uptake of teen
tobacco use is the glamourization of tobacco use in
movies and on television.
 Many people believe that the media is solely to blame
for the rise in teen smokers in the world.

7. .
 Friends' smoking has a stronger effect on
adolescents' smoking behaviour,
particularly on initiation.

8.  Passive smoking means that the passive smokers, or non-
smokers, are breathing in the smoke either from the burning end
of the active smoker's cigarette or the smoke expelled by the
active smoker.
 Passive smoking is also called involuntary or secondhand
smoking.
 Passive smoking can lead to very serious health problems such as
respiratory diseases, heart disease and lung cancer.
 Passive smoking is considered a preventable cause of death
which has killed thousands of people exposed to cigarette smoke
in homes, workplaces and/or public places.

9.  Children are often passive smokers and receive health
injuries that they would not have had if their parents did not
smoke.
 Children who end up being passive smokers have been
shown to have an increased risk of getting cancer later in life
as well as asthma and respiratory infections.

10. DEVELOPING FETUS RISK GENDER RISK
 Smaller and low birth weight  Men: Sperm deformity,
infant.
loss of motility, reduced
 Stillbirth. number, infertility, and
 Birth defects. impotence.
 Increased nicotine brain
receptors.  Women: Painful
 Increased chance of child being
menstrual cycles, early
a teen smoker. menopause, cervical
 Possible anxiety disorders as an
cancer, and fertility
adult. problems.

11. HEALTH RISK
 Stroke
 Cancers
 Cataracts
 Thyroid disease
 Discolors the teeth
 Tar stained fingers
 Poor blood circulation
 Blood clotting in brain
 Gangrene and leg pain
 Bad breath and gum disease
 Weakening of immune system
 Wrinkles and aging prematurely
 Nicotine addiction and withdrawal
 Peptic ulcers, gallstones, stomach cancer, heart
burn, etc

12.  For smokers, to Stop Smoking is really a tough action to
take. Majority of smokers want to quit smoking, but find it
difficult to do so as nicotine is very addictive and hard to
get rid off
 Hypnosis is just one of many methods that can be used to
help quit smoking.
 Hypnosis works by basically re-wiring of your brain that let
you change your paradigm to some actions, objects,
situations or items.
 Hypnosis remains a very controversial issue in therapy and
general medicine.

13.  Wait until you want a cigarette.
 Take a deep breath and invite that desire to grow as fast
and strong as possible.Continue to breath deeply as you
focus on the desire spreading and multiplying throughout
your body. Your anxiety should become intense, but
answer it by calling on the desire to increase! Within a few
minutes, your desire to smoke will suddenly vanish, and
instead you'll feel truly great.
 To completely end your addiction, repeat every time you
have the urge to smoke.Your craving will vanish faster
each time, usually in seconds, and be replaced with a
genuine feeling of exceptional well-being and energy.