Stop smoking

I began to smoke when I was in high school. In fact, I remember the evening I was at a girlfriend’s house, and we were ___31____ a movie. The actors in the movie smoked a lot. My friend found two cigarettes from her mother’s purse, and she gave on to me. It was my first time.

My parents didn’t care it too much because they both ___32_____, and my older brother did too. My mother told me that smokers don’t grow tall, but I was already ____33___ than most of the boys in my class, so I was happy to hear that “fact”. The ____34___ in school talked against smoking, but the cigarette advertisements were so exciting.I read a book ___35___ how to stop smoking. The writer thought that smoking ___36____time, and that cigarettes cost a lot of money. Ten years later, everyone began to hear about the ___37___ effects of cigarette smoke: lung disease, cancer, and heart problems. After that, there was a health ____38__ on every pack of cigarettes. I didn’t pay much ___39___ to the reports and warnings. I felt healthy, and I thought I was taking good care of myself.

Then two events changed my mind. First, I started to cough. I thought It was just a cold, but it didn’t get better. Second, my brother got lung cancer. He got sicker and sicker. I sat with him in his hospital room, and I decided to ____40____. However, it was very hard to do so.

A. quit E. teachers I. bad

B. aware F. attention J. taller

C. watching G. wastes K .warning

D. named H. different L. smoked
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