The Ritter Family

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoking the cons without the pros

 

            Don’t ever start its hard to quit, you know what I’m talking about yes smoking. I’m writing this paper because I smoked and my mom didn’t like it.

Smoking is bad because many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high enough doses. Smoking also restricts blood vessels; it can prevent oxygen from getting to the skin — which is why smokers often appear pale. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become sicker if they smoke. That’s a couple of reasons why smoking is bad for you.

Whites 21.9%, African Americans 23.0%, Hispanics 15.2%, American Indians/Alaska, Natives 32.4%, Asian Americans 10.4% these are different percentages of different races that smoke. Each year about 438,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to cigarette smoking.

Parents are the biggest influences on their teen children. Some people start to smoke because they see other people do it and think it looks cool but its not. Other people try it because friends pressure them in to it. That’s how I started I was with my friend Dalton and we went walking around and he had cigarettes in his pocket and pulled the pack out. Then he asked me if I wanted one n at first I said no but Dalton n jimmy talked me into it.

            Smoking isn’t all that kills people Secondhand smoke kills about 3,000 nonsmokers each year from lung cancer. Also Secondhand smoke causes up to 300,000 lung infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) in infants and young children each year. Secondhand smoke causes wheezing, coughing, colds, earaches, and asthma attacks.

            Every day in the United States alone, approximately 3,000 kids under the age of 18 start smoking. Also Every day 1,200 Americans die from smoking-related illnesses. Smoking-related illnesses claim more American lives than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide and illegal drugs combined. Another interesting fact is People who smoke a pack a day die on average 7 years earlier than people who have never smoked. Tobacco use is directly responsible for more than 25 causes of death. Estimates are that 4 million people will die of tobacco-related illnesses worldwide this year; by the 2020’s, the death toll will increase to 10 million deaths per year. That’s a lot of people. 351,564 American children under age 18 will start smoking in 2001 alone; of these, 112,501 will eventually die from a smoking related illness.

            Cigarettes contain disgusting things that you would never think about putting in your body. For example, cigarettes contain tar, carbon monoxide. The tobacco in cigarettes also contains nicotine which is the drug that makes smoking addictive.

            Studies indicate that nonsmokers are also inversely affected by environmental tobacco smoke. There are 4000 chemicals in tobacco with 100 identified poisons and 63 known drugs which cause cancer.  Cigarette use continued to grow at a rapid pace and peaked at over 40 percent of the nation’s adolescent-and-older population by the mid-1960. The great majority of tobacco users smoke cigarettes, inhaling the nicotine-laden smoke into their lungs. A smaller percentage of users smoke cigars and pipes, and generally do not inhale, since cigar and pipe tobacco is potent enough for the nicotine in the smoke they produce to be readily absorbed in the mouth.

These are some of the diseases that smoking brings to people cancers of the lungs, mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, uterus, cervix, kidney, bladder, and some forms of leukemia, Cardiovascular disease, heart attack, fatal heart failure, and stroke.

            Now you see how smoking kills. Also I know that I will never smoke again. So you should never start because it is hard to stop.

 

 

 

 

 

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kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html - 23k

www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_1.asp - 27k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lying

 

 

 

            This is a 3 paragraphs about lying. If you lie to your parents and they catch you, you can get in a lot of trouble. The definition of lying is the telling of lies; untruthfulness. Young children ages 4-5 often make up stories and tell tall tales. Although teens tell lies to avoid doing something or deny responsibility for their actions.

            Teens also lie to protect their privacy or to help them feel psychologically separate and independent from their parents. Teens often feel that lying is the easiest way to get out of something that they have done wrong. Teens use lying to cover up another more serious problem like drugs or alcohol. There are seven ways to tell that someone is lying and they are no eye contact, change in voice, unusual body language, something sounds fishy, overly defensive, changes subject easily, humor or sarcasm.

            Fear is a common motivator for lying. There are also some children and adolescents who don’t care about lying or taking advantage of. Lying is the number one reason that people lose trust. (Lies are like dominos - one lie can knock out whole relationships, destroy entire aspects of your life or even limit your future in unforeseeable ways.) Lies can damage your self image and cause you to look at things a lot different. This is 3 paragraphs about lying

           

 

 

I know he cut and pasted this - but if you could see his past essays and his work that he has done. You would be impressed. Unfortunately I do not have any examples of his past work, but I can tell you this is a great improvement. Brandon at least was able to put this in some kind of logically order so that it made sense. Now I just have to teach him to how to change the font size and style. LOL - He was also grounded by the way and had a long list of chores to do on top of the essay. I plan to use this punishment in the future and maybe tweak it a little - like it the future essays will have to be 5 paragraphs with two sources cited.

 

I think he did learn something about lying from this and I think it will be one that he will remember in the future.

Not much new to report. Classes started for me. Good Lord - its alot of work. I guess that is my excuse for not bloggin in a while. Matt and fam was in town last week for little bit. They spent most of their vaca in the Dells. The flooding in Iowa has left alot of us feeling damp and really tired of rain. It has disrupted the whole state in more ways then one. Now the water is moving south so all the southern states will get hit next. We gave my dad a flag pole for fathers day. He was pretty excited about that. My aunt pasted away. She has been ill for some time now and is in a much better place - my uncle is holding his own - i am told. Boys are doing fine. Brandon started summer school and aaron is finishing his up. Jeremy was the only one who was reprived of this summer school thing. Pat is working a lot as am I. It has been crazy at work but we got word that they are hiring a third FA Packager so that will help alot. Well, I need to go get these kids in bed and get myself ready also. I am so tired I can barely type. Hope everyone is well. I will try to blog something more interesting this weekend. Later Gators!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love to all!!!!