1000820 Write your own news article-Michael

1000820 Write your own news article-Michael
Tobacco and alcohol are bad for our health. If we keep smoking and drinking alcohol, we will die more quickly. Smoking is bad because any tobacco product contains nicotine (an extremely addictive drug) which can mess with our brain. Alcohol is a depressant so it affects our emotions. Dr. Ben Kim says, “Both alcohol and tobacco have been assessed to be more dangerous than illegal drugs like marijuana or ecstasy”.
Smoking causes addiction, coughing, bronchitis, asthma, damage to your lungs, smelly hair and clothes, yellow teeth and bad breath. These are just the short term effects. The long term effects include cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes), lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema (a lung disease where a person has a really hard time breathing), reproductive problems, and birth defects in kids. According to the USA Health Watch we are having a total of 97 billion US dollars in health care costs and lost productivity.
Chewing tobacco has horrible side effects. The short term effects of chewing tobacco are addiction, receding gums, yellow teeth, tooth decay, drooling and smelly hair and clothes. Long term effects include stomach cancer, heart problems and reproductive problems. Some people like smoking or chewing tobacco because nicotine makes them feel good and keeps them focused, however nicotine is addictive. If we eat nicotine we will feel dizzy and won’t walk straight. Quit Smoking Central reports, “Once off nicotine stimulation in a smoker is immediately followed by depression and fatigue creating a new round of nicotine craving.” This is why starting a tobacco habit can be life altering in a bad way.
Like all other drugs, alcohol messes with our brain. People like alcohol because it decreases their inhibitions, and they feel that they can have a lot more fun that way. A lot of these people end up drinking too much and vomiting for most of the night while not being able to see straight, walk straight, or speak clearly. When we are drunk we might not know what we are doing. We might fight with somebody and get hurt yet not be able to remember anything we did. Alcohol poisoning happens when the above symptoms escalte rapidly and there is too much alcohol in your blood. It can lead to brain damage, pneumonia, lung problems, coma or even death. So drinking alcohol is also bad.
People who smoke’s chance of getting oral cavity cancer is eighteen times that of people who don’t smoke. If they also drink alcohol, they will have a one hundred and twenty three times greater chance of getting oral cancer as opposed to a normal person. So people should not drink alcohol and smoke or you will die very quickly. You should go to the hospital as soon as possible if you have these problems.

In 2006, more than 19% of drivers ages 16 to 20 who died in motor vehicle crashes had been drinking alcohol.





Turn Off Your TV!
A new study reveals that watching less television may lead to a longer life
August 17, 2011
By Alice Park
Sitting in front of the television may be relaxing, but spending too much time in front of the tube may take years off your life.
That's what Australian researchers found when they collected TV viewing information from more than 11,000 people older than 25 years. The study found that people who watched an average six hours of TV a day lived an average 4.8 years less than those who didn't watch any television. Also, every hour of TV that participants watched after age 25 was associated with a 22-minute reduction in their life expectancy.
What’s Going On?
It's no mystery that sitting in front of the tube isn't exactly healthy. The more TV you watch, the less physically active you are. And the less exercise you get, the more likely you are to develop diseases such as diabetes or heart problems.
Lennert Veerman is the lead author of the study, which was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Veerman works at the University of Queensland. He acknowledges that it may not just be the sedentary nature of watching TV that lowers life expectancy, but also the poor diet that onscreen junk-food advertising can promote. But Veerman says that the association between watching too much TV and lower life expectancy persisted, even after adjusting for diet.
Veerman says that it might make sense for doctors to start asking their patients about how much time they spend in front of the TV, and to treat TV time as they would other risk factors for poor health, such as lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet.
Veerman points out that people who are concerned can simply turn off the TV and gett off the couch. "Exercise is good," he says, "but even light physical activity also improves health."


We have to get more exercise and stop being like a couch potato or you will not only get fatter but also die quickly. The study found that people who watched an average six hours of TV a day lived an average 4.8 years less than those who didn't watch any television. So that means if you watch an hour of TV you will die twenty two minutes more quickly than you should live. If you exercise fifteen minutes everyday you will live three years longer than you could. So get out of your sofas and go out to exercise.