Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Reading reaction journal #3


Reference:
Larissa Hirsch, MD. (2010, September 19). Smoking and asthma, Retrieved March 24, 2010, from
http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html#

Summary:
      According to the article, in the past, smoking cigarettes was an easy thing to practs everywhere. Today people have  become more careful about their health. They try their best to ban the smoking from the public places to avoid the bad effects of smoking. Smoking the cigarette as daily routine made the people need to have tobacco as water or food to feel normal. However, the ammine system counts the nicotine and cyanide as the germs, which attend to the body. To explain more, in the early times that the smoker tried to smoke, he felt sick and sometimes he threw up. That because the immune system fights these poison things. The person who smokes will feel sometimes a painful and burning in their throat and lungs. On the other hand, some people will get sick and threw up from the few first times of using tobacco. First of all, there are many signs on the long term, and in the short term it affects the smoker health in a bad way. For example, a person who smokes will get a fatal hart disease, strokes, emphysema, or many types of cancer including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. This is inside the person’s body, which is not going to be visible for the other people, but there is some sign that will be shown to the public, for example, bad skin, bad breath, get cold, flu, asthma, bad smelling on the clothes and on the hair. At the end Larissa shows that smoking tobacco leads most of the people to quit their favorite sport. Larissa shows at the end, what you have to do if you want to quit smoking. 

Reaction:
     After I read this article, I wanted to  talk about the harmful effects of smoking. There are many teenagers who start smoking because they think it is cool. This is not true, unless you think that yellow teeth, a hacking cough and lung cancer are cool. First, smoking causes teeth to become yellow. For example, smoking is so bad for your teeth that they make special toothpaste just for people who smoke. Even this is not enough to prevent the yellowing of smoker’s teeth. Secondly, people who smoke end up getting a really bad cough. I know that all of you have heard smokers who are always coughing. This is not cool at all. Finally, smoking causes cancer. While some people may think that smoking is cool, it is hard to look cool when your hair is gone because of cancer and you have to use a breathing tube and oxygen tank. For these reasons there is nothing cool about smoking. I will try my best to help the teenager to quit smoking.

 


 



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