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Topic: Analytical Exposition Text

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Text 1

Is Smoking Good for Us?

Before we are going to smoke, it is better to look at the fact. About 50 thousands people die every
year in Britain as direct result of smoking. This is seven times as many as die in road accidents.
Nearly a quarter of smokers die because of diseases caused by smoking.
Ninety percent of lung cancers are caused by smoking. If we smoke five cigarettes a day, we are six
times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non smoker. If we smoke twenty cigarettes a day, the
risk is nineteen greater. Ninety five percent of people who suffer of bronchitis are people who are
smoking. Smokers are two and half times more likely to die of heart disease than non smokers.
Additionally, children of smoker are more likely to develop bronchitis and pneumonia. In one hour
in smoky room, non smoker breathes as much as substance causing cancer as if he had smoked
fifteen cigarettes.
Smoking is really good for tobacco companies because they do make much money from smoking
habit. Smoking however is not good for every body else.
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Text 2

Never Try Smoking

A lot of people, especially teenagers, who do not smoke, always want to try smoking. They know it
is bad for them and all, but it is just something they want to try. So they ask one of their smoker
friends for a cigarette. Admittedly, they firstly can not light it on their own so they ask his friend to
do it. Then they inhale that cigarette and smoke occasionally.
Apparently that makes them the born smokers. Now they do smoke fairly regularly. They can not
avoid smoking and they enjoy too. They have smoker friends. Everyday they bring a pack in their
pocket. For them, a pack of cigarette is as important as a wallet for their money.
Suddenly, for certain reason, they realize the fact that tobacco is the cause of a long list of nasty
diseases. It is not only heart disease, stroke, and chronic lung disease but also bladder, lung, and
pancreatic cancer. Even it was reported that around 400,000 Americans died each year. It was one
every 80 seconds from tobacco-related illnesses.
Then they decide it is stupid to harm selves. They want to quit smoking. Unfortunately, they find
that quitting smoking is so difficult. “Why can’t I stop smoking? I really want to stop it”. It is hard
to quit because nicotine is powerfully addictive. Cigarette is one of the most efficient drug-delivery
devices ever devised. As result, when people try to quit smoking, they often experience classic
nicotine withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, headache, depression, and restlessness.
Well, still want to try smoke? Think the facts before trying! If you are not smoker, you should never
and never try to smoke.
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Text 3

Smoking is Completely Useless

Smoking is a common thing to see in our environment. Nowadays, we can easily find smokers
everywhere, not only in a group of grown up people, but also in a group of underage children. They
are actually aware that smoking is dangerous but they do it anyway. Some of them believe that
smoking is a way to connect with other people. Some others believe that smoking actually helps
them to stay focus, but I think that smoking brings nothing good for us and it is totally useless.
Firstly, there is no beneficial substance in a cigarette. If you expect to get vitamin A, B or C from a
cigarette, then you are daydreaming. All substance in a cigarette is dangerous. If we break it down
and put it in a list, here are the substance of a cigarette and its effect toward the body: Carcinogens:
substance that can cause cancer (Benzene, Formaldehyde, Vinyl chloride), Toxic Metals: metal
compound that can harm our health (Arsenic, Cadmium), Radioactive Toxic Metals: extremely
harmful for the body (Lead-210, Polonium-210), and various Poisons such as Ammonia, Carbon
Monoxide, Hydrogen Cyanide and Nicotine. It is clear now that there is no useful material that we
can take from a cigarette.
Secondly, smoking actually wastes your precious time. Some smokers may claim that they enjoy
their cigarette while working, so it is like multitasking for them. But the truth is that they just don’t
realize that they actually waste some of their precious time by smoking. Every time a smoker takes
a sip of smoke from his or her cigar, it takes at least seven seconds of their time. Let’s do the math
and find out how many seconds that they throw away if it takes at least seven sips to finish a
cigarette. They would have thrown away forty nine seconds of their time to finish a cigarette and
nine minutes and forty eight seconds to finish a pack of cigarette. That sounds so useless to me
because after spending that nine precious minutes you completely gain nothing but damage to your
body internally.
Thirdly, smoking means that you burn your money, literally. It sounds classic in our ear, but clearly
there are still so many people who don’t get the meaning because the fact says that the number of
smokers increase by year. We buy something for a reason. But when you buy a pack of cigarette,
what is your reason? It doesn’t contain any vitamin for you to take. It doesn’t even contain a
dangerous enough material for you to suicide. Buying certain poison that can kill you instantly
seems to have a clearer objective for me than buying a pack of cigarette. When someone bought a
bottle of deadly poison, it is clear to us that he or she wants to end his or her life. Smokers, on the
other hand, do not expect to die for their action. I assure you that no smokers take a sip of a
cigarette with suicidal intention in their mind, because they realize that smoking won’t kill them
now, it will kill them later. Doing something without a clear objective sounds pretty bizarre for me.
Smokers have their own reasons to keep doing their habit. It is completely their right to decide to
stop smoking or not, but for me smoking is useless.
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1. Activity 1
After reading the text, discuss the following question!

Question Answer

Why does someone smoke cigarettes? ………………………………………………….

What do you think? Smoking is a habit or ………………………………………………….

a life style?

What do you think of advantages of ………………………………………………….

smoking cigarettes?

………………………………………………….
What do you think of disadvantages of
smoking cigarettes?

What is your decision, keep or stop ………………………………………………….

smoking?

………………………………………………….
If you were not a smoker, what is your
opinion about smoker, and what will you
suggest to him/her?

2. Activity 2
Please identify the main idea of paragraphs of the text!

Part of the Text Purpose Main idea

The first Paragraph Opening statement to introduce ……………………………..

the subject (thesis statement)

Supporting paragraph that

While Paragraph Arguments/writer’s point of ……………………………..
view
Concluding paragraph that
The last paragraph indicate the end of the text ……………………………..
which restate the writer’s point
of view/ to strengthen the thesis
3. Activity 3
After you have found the main idea of paragraph, identify the characteristic of the text!

Title of the text: ……………………………….

Social Function
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Generic Structures
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4. Activity 4
After doing the activity 3, choose one of group members to present the group discussion result
in front of class. The other members of group can answer the question form other group!