Teen smoking has serious long-term consequences, including the risk of teenage smoking-related diseases and the risk of premature death, as well as causing increased health care costs associated with treating the illnesses. Any adults who are addicted to tobacco today began smoking as adolescents, and it is estimated that more than 5 million of today's underage smokers will die of tobacco-related illnesses. These consequences underscore the importance of studying patterns of smoking among adolescents.

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I watched a video called the one eyed mother...it can be found on youtube its about a young child who had a mother with one eye and when she came at his school he was always embarassed. He said he hated her, he told her to die. One day when he got older and had a wife and children she came to visit and his children were terrified of her one eye. He yelled at her for coming over scaring her children. She died later on not too long after. He said he didnt shed a tear. Before she did that she wrote him a letter telling him that when he was young he was in an accident and lost one eye and as a mother sh hated to see him living like that so she gave him one eye and was so happy to see him seeing the whole world for her. She apologized for making him feel embarassed as he was growing up. I think that he was so inconsiderate to treat her like that whether he knew how her eye was like that or not thats still his mother and shouldve lover her when no-one else did.

During my winter recess i had a lot of fun. I went to long island mall and met Matthew Underwood from zoey101 we hugged took pictures and he gave me his autograph. Then i got to bring my puppy home from my dadys house, i missed him a lot. After doing all of that i went to the city big apple store and went on computers, listens to iPods and many other things. My favorite part of all was babysitting my niece. I love her to death and we had a whole lot of fun although she is only 2yrs old...

After watching the news video about the young boys getting tased because they were fighting i felt kind of upset bcause it was very ridiculous. It was uncalled-for and innapropriate. I even decided to make a video and post it up on youtube against what those police did. i think people should definately protest against that because cops think that they can do anything they want.

Over my weekened i did a lot of things. i started guitar practice again and i went to the dentist, eye doctor and missed ballet by an accident. i had a lot of fun with my niece as well. But, sadly my pet hamster died.

HAITI

If history will repeat itself again in Haiti, the country runs the risk of plunging into deep social regression. It is on the verge of a dreadful state of nature. A state where people are led by instinct, fed by pain, anger, despair, and distrust.

History is not fate, or destiny. It is the result of social forces interacting with natural factors. Ramsey Clark alerts that “the history of Haiti will break your heart.” Brazilians use to sing Caetano Veloso’s 1980‘s song Haiti, where he asks: “think about Haiti, pray for Haiti.”

Haiti’s history has been an intercourse between human predators and brutal natural forces. Exploitation, isolation, occupation, the imposition of heavy reparations, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis have devastated the country’s right to a civilized future since the beginning of colonial rule.

Its native population was decimated in less than three decades after Columbus set foot on Hispaniola Island. The natives were replaced by African slaves. Haiti paid a double and unbearable price for its Independence War. As Clark wrote:

Haiti lay in ruins, nearly half its population lost. The African slaves of Haiti had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. The 12-year war for liberation had destroyed most of the irrigation systems and machinery that, with slave labor, had created France’s richest colony and were the foundation of the island’s economy.