SMOKING

Today Nurse Ty from California Pacific Medical Center visited our class to teach us more about the effects of smoking cigarettes. This tied in quite nicely with our science curriculum studies of the body system. Students had a lot of questions that Nurse Ty was able to answer very clearly. 4th graders wrote their ideas down about smoking after the presentation. Here are a few of them. More to follow.

"Smoking is really bad. When you smoke your lungs turn black. You can also age faster. You shouldn't smoke at all even though you see friends and family smoking you still shouldn't. Some people smoke because they want to be cool or tough but nothing really happens to them.

You can get cancer if you smoke. When you smoke it affects the cells to reproduce tumors or viruses that can kill you. Not only can you die but the veins close up and then the arm or the leg turns black which needs to be cut off." -Isabel





"You will die smoking! Don't smoke because you want to be cool you'll die! The nurses will have to cut off your body parts. You will have smelly clothes and yellow teeth. SO don't SMOKE!

Your blood cells will stop if you smoke. You have a high chance of getting mouth cancer and lung cancer. You won't be able to play sports if you smoke, your head will blow up. You need your veins to get blood and oxygen to your body parts." -Joshua




"Smoking can damage your lungs. It could close up your blood vessels. Then some parts of your body will turn black. They will have to be cut off your legs or the other parts that get black. You can get cancer.

When blood vessels close up a lot of things can happen to your lungs. Your lungs are very important. They keep you alive. Blood doesn't go down your vessels because some parts will close up. Then that's when parts get black. You can die from that." -Keion





"Smoking causes many deaths! Do you want someone in your family to pass away because they got addicted to a bad habit? Smokers with kids please stop smoking! Don't you want to be able to see your child get married? Have kids? Go to college? Smokers without kids you should stop smoking too! Just because you don;t have a child that's worried about you doesn't mean you have to throw your life away. Don't you want to live to see the age of 50? 85? 90? If you have a kid or if you don't have a kid, please just sop smoking!

Smoking makes you age faster! Do you want to look like some old hag who smokes cigarettes? You don't want to look ugly! If you keep smoking you'll look like a corpse before you even pass away! Please STOP SMOKING! You'll see if you keep smoking." - Hasana




"When you smoke you start to have bad breath. A pack of cigarettes costs $6. When you buy a pack each week you spend $312 a year. You can buy clothes instead. You can also get mouth cancer and just cancer. Also you can get heart problems. And the blood may not make it through the whole body.

Kids also smoke because they want to be cool or want to be tough or sometimes serious. Most kids do not smoke. Because they know what happens when you smoke. (which is paragraph 1). People are stop smoking because they are learning about what happens when you smoke. So here is a tip DO NOT SMOKE!" -Coco



"Smoking is a cause of DEATH! Smoking can make you DIE because your circulatory system stops working how it's supposed to. You can thousands of dollars in 1 year of buying packs of cigarettes. If you buy 1 pack of cigarettes each day of 1 year you can lose $2190 dollars a year just buying cigarettes. If you buy 1 pack of cigarettes each week in a year $312 dollars just buying packs of cigarettes." -Sariah




"Smoking can cause cancer. It can cause all kinds of cancers such as mouth cancer and lung cancer. Smokers lungs turn black. Smoking can cause tumors which are black. Smoking also can cause nicotine ingredients which makes your hands yellow. Smoking closes/clogs your lungs up. People get really sick from smoking which leads to any kind of cancer which can lead to death. So my advice to smokers are don't smoke because you can die.

Some people and kids usually smoke because their friends or people encourage them to do so. They try to look cool. They also think they are tough or bad. In my opinion kids shouldn't smoke because they might have a harder time in life. Non-smokers can smell the smell of cigarettes on smoker's clothing." -Kamiri



"Smoking makes you have bad breath. Your taste buds couldn't taste what you like if you smoke a cigarette. You also couldn't even smell something good like flowers or even perfume. It would be so sad if you couldn't smell or taste anything like ice cream or chocolate.

Smoking can cause your life to shorten. If you smoke you will get old very fast. Your skin will get really wrinkly too. Your heart could stop and you will die. It also could make you have poor blood going through your veins and arteries." -Chelsea