Roy Benson I first get on smoking when I was a high school boy. I became addicted to it and couldn’t kick them soon afterwards. I should say smoking has done me and is doing me good. I feel great when smoking. And now I’m a college student, a puff of tobacco can calm me down before an poorly-prepared important exam or cheer me up when I’m too sleepy when staying up late. In men’s world, smoking is a way to demonstrate your masculine trait and it shortens the distance between strangers. Nicotine makes me a lot of friends. Friends make me happy. So I venture to say smoking does good instead of harm to my health. Klaus Sully My doctor told me my lungs are about to be burnt out by my cigarettes and my wife gave smoking a very beautiful name: that suicidal habit of yours. But my urges for tars and nicotine are just compulsive. One packet of cigarettes per day is a must for me. I just turn deaf ears to these advice until one day I found my cough was about to stop me from catching breath and I know I have to stop smoking—saying good-bye to my old friend. For a few weeks, the pills that I swallow each day almost bestowed upon me a victory in the battle, but then Christmas came, my resolution collapsed and I starts to slip back into my old habit of smoking. I hate smoking, but I love it. Nina Howell My husband’s a heavy smoker and I, of course, a nonsmoker. There is a line drawn between us. For instance, when boarding a plane, he is always in smoking area, and my seat in no smoking area, because I just don’t want to puff in that vomiting fume of tobacco, second hand. At home, only in his study is he allowed to smoke, but whenever I return from a business trip, I can always detect cigarette ash and butts on my living room and bedroom carpets. We quarreled a lot but it doesn’t work. I have to admit he is an ideal husband, except for smoking. That’s why I’d lose my willpower to divorce him whenever he kneels down and makes a plea for leniency. Smoking has got its evil hand on a perfect man, and I have to halt it so that it may not ruin a perfect marriage. If only he were a nonsmoker. Ivan Smith I know nicotine is a harmful chemical—in fact, someone gives the name of "coffin nail" to the little leaf stick—but that does not mean it can do harm to everybody. So long as a smoker restricts his habit to himself, and himself alone, it matters nothing to other people. I don’t smoke, so here I claim rm not saying good for those tobacco addicts. I just want to say that we have to coexist peacefully in this damned little world with those coffin nail consumers, because Tobacco IS there. Smoking is not your brother. Neither is it your enemy. Kent Burnett I’m a sociologist. Juvenile smoking, for instance, is growing like a cancer among teenagers, which ruins not only their health, but their future. They learn to smoke cigarettes first, and then hemp, and then heroin. Many young drug abusers are produced in this way. Juvenile smoking finally leads to juvenile delinquency. These juvenile smokers ended up their otherwise bright future in the juvenile jail. The government should take effective measures to restrict smoking to adult only. More legislative work must be done to outlaw the sale of cigarettes to youngsters and illegal profit makers be more severely punished. Now match each of the speakers (16 to 20) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements. Statements
[A] One man’s meat may not necessarily be another man’s poison,
[B] You have to consider and reconsider its suicidal effects before you learn to smoke.
[C] I’m constantly at war with smoking, but it’s hard to kick the habit.
[D] It is never too late to mend.
[E] If my honey were a nonsmoker, I would love him even more.
[F] Nicotine does me a lot of good.
[G] Smoking does more harm to children than to adults