If you think it cool, think again

Here are some sad, sad, sad facts about smoking.

• Your clothes and hair will have a terrible smell.

• Your teeth will turn yellow.

• You will have bad breath.

• Your hair and skin will become dry. You'll get premature wrinkles.

• Smokers store more fat around the waist.

• A smoker is 22 times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non-smoker. In fact, 30% of all cancer deaths are caused by smoking.

• Smoking causes heart attacks. By the way, heart disease is now the number-one killer in Russia.

• Nicotine isn't the only bad thing in cigarettes, there are over 400 chemicals in one cigarette that are known to be harmful.

• Smoking causes bronchitis, asthma and emphysema.

• Pregnant women (especially teenagers) who smoke will face a lot of pregnancy risks. They even may give birth to stillborn babies.

• Babies of women smokers are more likely to have mental disorders than babies of women non-smokers.

• Babies with mothers who smoke develop more slowly during childhood.

• Cigarette smoke clogs and makes lungs awfully dirty.

• Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine.

• Seven out of 10 smokers want to quit, but can't.

Girls, cigarette packs leave no room in your purse for your com­pact and lipstick.

You'll become richer. Cigarettes cost money.

So think twice before lighting up that cigarette of yours!

Vocabulary

enormous - огромный

to invest - инвестировать, вкладывать

to advertise - реклами­ровать

tobacco - табак, табачный

to encourage - подстрекать, потворствовать

to get you to think that - чтобы убедить вас в том, что

brand - марка

made-up - выдуманный, вымышленный, искусственный

disease - болезнь

average - средний

heavy smoker - заядлый курильщик

smell - запах

bad breath - дурной запах изо рта

skin - кожа

premature wrinkles - прежде­временные морщины

to store - накапливать

fat - жир

waist - талия

lung cancer – рак легких

heart attack - сердечный приступ, болезнь сердца

nicotine - никотин

bronchitis - бронхит

asthma - астма

emphysema - эмфизема

pregnant - беременная

to face - сталкиваться, оказаться перед угрозой

stillborn - мертворожденный

mental disorder - психическое расстройство

to develop - развиваться

to clog - засорять, загрязнять

addictive - вызывающий привычку, привыкание

heroin - героин

cocaine - кокаин

to quit - бросать

pack - пачка

purse - сумочка

compact - компакт­ная пудра

lipstick - губная помада

5.8.Use of English.

5.8.1.Fill in the gaps with suitable words and expressions.

1. You'd have to be living on Mars not to know that smoking is ………….

2. One answer is that many ……. think it cool.

3. Tobacco companies spend millions to ………… the young to start, or to continue, smoking.

4. These-people are not real and the things they do are ………….

5. Your clothes and hair will have a terrible ……..

6. Your teeth will ….. yellow.

7. In fact, 30% of all cancer deaths are ………. by smoking.

8. By the way, heart disease is now the number-…. killer in Russia.

9. Smoking causes bronchitis, ……… and emphysema.

10. Nicotine is as ………. as heroin or cocaine.