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vaughn

Don't get me started on smoking. It's not social, you have to go outside to smoke now, it sure ain't hot, you end up smelling like burnt hair in a used nappy dipped in ash and it isn't a good look either, you end up looking like an old man (even if you are a girl) who is only being held together by the yellow stuff on his fingers and tar in his lungs. I don't smoke because I was a sportsperson, I played midget rugby once, and it wasn't due to pregnancy, I'm a boy, boy's don't have babies and it wasn't because it was never offered to me, pretty much every lunchtime at highschool! I guess I just didn't see the fun or social aspect of slowly poisoning my body with the contents of the average bug spray mixed with the tar that seals our roads over 40 years. It's an addictive and EXPENSIVE deadly habit, the sort of habit best avoided by never giving it a chance

Vaughan, THE EDGE announcer

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Crossword

Fill in the following crossword using the clues and highlighted words below.

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crossword
  1. A packet of cigarettes costs less than 10 cents to produce.
  2. Smoking kills 4,700 New Zealaders each year.
  3. There are thousands of poisonous substances in tobacco smoke.
  4. To reduce the health risk of secondhand smoke to others, smokers are asked to take the smoke outside.
  5. If you’d like a disease, why not try smoking?
  6. Smokers die approximately 14 years earlier than non-smokers.
  7. Tar is one of the 4000 chemicals in tobacco smoke.
  8. Why would you smoke to relax when it raises your heart rate, increases your blood pressure and causes rapid, shallow breathing?
  9. Secondhand smoke is the leading environmental cause of avoidable death in NZ.
  10. Nicotine is a highly toxic, addictive drug found in cigarettes.
  11. Over 50 cancer causing chemicals can be found in secondhand smoke.
  12. If you start smoking and become addicted you may find yourself unable to quit.
  13. Sidestream smoke is the smoke that comes from the lit cigarette. Mainstream smoke comes from the smokers’ mouth.
  14. Smoking is the single largest avoidable cause of disease and early death in the world .
  15. Health problems caused by smoking are preventable.
  16. Over a year, the money spent on a ‘ packet a day’ habit could buy you two cars!  

Word Find

See how many Smokefree Words you can find in the following wordfind.

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wordfind

  1. Stained Skin
  2. Wrinkles
  3. Smells
  4. Acute
  5. Stroke
  6. Cancer
  7. Osteoporosis
  8. Social
  9. Run
  10. Heart Disease
  11. Glue Ear
  12. Stink
  13. Deaf
  14. Yuk

Word Puzzle

Guess the horizontal words using the clues provided.

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wordgame

  1. The tobacco…….wants you to try smoking and become addicted.
  2. Smoking makes your clothes, hair and breath...........
  3. Paint stripper, toilet cleaner and rat killer are all...........found in cigarettes.
  4. Cigarettes are the only product which, if used as the manufacturer intends, will...........you!
  5. Smokers are likely to die early - it is a...........habit!
  6. Smoking in movies is designed to...........you into thinking that it’s normal, cool and sexy to smoke.
  7. Most young New Zealanders think that smoking makes you look...........
  8. Some people think that smoking will help them...........when it actually increases their heart rate.
  9. People who are addicted to smoking are...........on cigarettes.