LATIHAN 2

Answer these questions briefly

Is Smoking Good For Us?

Before we smoke, it is better to look at the fact of smoking effects, not only for smokers but also for non smokers. About 50 thousands people die every year in Britain as the direct result of smoking. This is the seven times as many as deaths in road accidents. Nearly a quarter of smokers die because of diseases caused by smoking. Ninety percent of lung cancers are caused by smoking. If we smoke five cigarettes a day, we are six times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non- smoker. If we smoke twenty cigarettes a day, the risk is nineteen times greater. Ninety five percent of people who suffer from bronchitis are people who smoke. Smokers are two and half times more likely to die of heart disease than non- smokers.

Additionally, children of smokers are more likely to develop bronchitis and pneumonia. In one hour in a smoky room, a non-smoker breathes as much as substance causing cancer as if he had smoked fifteen cigarettes. Smoking is really good for tobacco companies because they do make much money from smoking habit. Smoking, however, is not good for everybody else.

Questions.

1. What is the text about?

2. Which of the statement below is TRUE?

"Some people considered that sometimes smoking also has advantages"

Explain it !

3. What is the effect of smoking to non-smokers?

4. What is the purpose of the text?

5. This is the seven times as many as deaths in road accidents (p.1)

The underlined word refers to ? Explain it