The health risks of smoking are well known,but kids and teens continue to smoke. Many young people pick up the habit every year—in fact, 90% of all adult smokers started when they were kids.
You might wonder why people smoke at all. Many people start smoking when they are kids or teens and they try it for many reasons. Maybe all of their friends were doing it or they grew up in a house where all the adults smoked. On the other hand, kids started smoking in order to look cool, act older, lose weight, or feel independent.
But no matter why they started, many smokers（ men, women, boys or girls）wish they could stop. Stopping smoking is hard, though, because there is nicotine （尼古丁） in cigarettes （烟）. Someone can get addicted to（沉溺于） nicotine within days of first using it. When something is addictive, your body and mind will tell you that you need it to feel OK. If you don’t get it, you might feel sick, stressed out, or get angry.
Stopping smoking mostly has two steps. The first step is to deal with your dependence on nicotine and the other is to break the habit of smoking. When you stop smoking, you may have to wait a few days or even weeks before the nicotine finally leaves your body.
Most importantly, we must make sure kids and teens understand the dangers of smoking as early as possible.
【小题1】Who is the text written mainly for? ________| A．Kids and teens. | B．Fathers and mothers. | C．Men smokers. | D．Women smokers. |
| A．They always want to look cool or independent. | B．Their friends or family members are smokers. | C．They have already depended on nicotine | D．They started to smoke at an early age. |
| A．how to give up smoking | B．how nicotine gets into a smoker’s body |
| C．getting into the habit of smoking is not easy | D．nicotine can stay in a smoker’s body for a long time |
| A．Heath risks of smoking. | B．Non-smoking areas in public places. |
| C．People succeeding in stopping smoking. | D．Useful medicine that prevents kids smoking. |
