KENT RIDGE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE SECONDARY THREE NORMAL (ACADEMIC) HEAD START PROGRAMME DISCURSIVE WRITING 1. What are some reasons teenagers take up smoking and how can one successfully kick the habit? FORMAT Question: What are some reasons teenagers take up smoking and how can one successfully kick the habit? Planning Paragraph 1: Introduction give statistics discuss reasons teens smoke: to fit in‚ to cope with stress discuss how one can kick the habit: reducing the number
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assive smoke is when non-smokers are breathing in the smoke that a smoker is smoking. Passive smoking is not good‚ because non-smokers breathe it in‚ as well as the smoker‚ and it is very harmful for the non-smokers as well as the smoker. It is also a huge source of indoor air pollution. Four-fifths of the smoke that builds up in a room with a smoker is the more harmful "sidestream" type. Tobacco smoke has over 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ which includes 40 carcinogenic agents that are cancer-causing
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Individual Project 5 ENGL106-1103B-216 English Composition I People Smoking in Public Areas By: Mia Boyd 09/24/11 Individual Project 4 Abstract: This an essay about how people’s bad habits can get them banned from public places‚ aka smoking. This essay’s issue is about smoking banned in most of all public places. There is no point in endangering your health and also someone else’s in these public places. Individual Project 5 You are harming other people while you smoke
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English 1301 Cause and Effect of Smoking The first time I heard a speech about the effects of smoking‚ I was in fifth grade. I well remember Deputy Becerra talking about the warnings against smoking. The last words she clearly spoke‚ were‚ “this cigarette in my hand is a death sentence”. After the presentation‚ for days‚ I kept contemplating on the subject and the effects. I asked myself‚ why would anybody be tempted or drawn to light up that cigarette? It did not make any sense to me
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Obed Orellana English 111 Argumentative essay Smoking Teen smoking is on the rise and it is a problem. Because parent don’t care what their children or child does. They also sneak off away from people‚ and go under bridges or in alleys. Teens can get diseases‚ like lung cancer or leukemia from smoking. They can die without noticing why. But they do it to improve their self-image to look cool like everyone else that does it. They want to show up that they can do it too‚ they pretend to
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Topic: Teenage Smoking Title: There are many teenage smokers in the Philippines and there are several causes and effects to this issue. Introduction I. Peer Pressure‚ Curiosity‚ Habit and Depression are the causes of teenagers that has been smoking cigarette. Based on my experience‚ Peer Pressure is one of the influencial factors to teenage smokers. It occurs when a non-smoker joins a group of teenage smokers. When teenagers have been influenced most likely he or she will start smoking. The behavoir
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are a great number of people getting into the habit of smoking‚ which has always been one of the hot topics that everyone is debating. It’s clear that this habit has its negative and possitive effects on both smokers and society. Smoking is considered to be a bad habit greatly effecting smokers’ own health and their social lives. Firstly‚ lifelong smokers are bound to have a shorter life expectancy due to chronic diseases caused by smoking such as lung cancer‚ emphysema and heart attacks. In addition
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Quitting Smoking According to the American Cancer Society‚ an estimated 221‚330 new cases of lung cancer are expected in 2011. “Lung Cancer accounts for more deaths than any other cancer in both men and women than any other cancer.” The most important thing you can do to reduce your risk of getting lung cancer is to quit smoking. Quitting smoking is very difficult. To be more successful in quitting smoking‚ you should first understand the addiction to nicotine‚ options to help you quit and
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Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960s a lot of young poeple took drugs and these people would try anyhing to get a "high." One Craze was called " Smoking Banana Peels " and that is what this is about . It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to a hippie paper in Berkeley ‚ California to the ’ Berkeley Barb ’ and explained how to smoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and then scrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then
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Bad Effects of Smoking http://www.articledoctor.com/quit-smoking/bad-effects-of-smoking-2331 Cigarette smoking is usually associated with breathing trouble and lung cancer. But smokers are at a high risk of developing several chronic disorders. Along with high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity and diabetes‚ smoking is a major independent risk factor for a coronary heart disease or kidney failure. It causes damage by decreasing the oxygen flow to the heart. It increases the blood pressure
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