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On Wednesday Faris Abdullah Al Shamsi presented in class about smoking in the UAE and he talked about the smoking and what kinds of people smoke in the UAE, components of each kind, smoking effects and smoking causes: that was his outline. First of all he talked about kinds of people who smoke in the UAE; the first one was cigarettes and the second one was Arabian tobacco, called midwak in the UAE, and the third one was shisha; he said the shisha is the dangerous one and he said if you smoke shisha in 20 minutes you smoke 80 cigarettes. Then he talked about what’s in the cigarette and there are more than 4,000 chemical substances in the cigarette like Methanol, Cadmium, Butane, Toluene, Ammonia, Acetic Acid, and Methane. As he said in the presentation there are many kinds of Arabian tobacco as hot tobacco, normal tobacco and cold tobacco and there are many flavors of the tobacco and there are many kinds of shisha; as fruit flavor they put it on the top of the shisha like apple flavor and honeyed. Then he talked about the effects of smoking and he showed us the clean lung and the lung contaminated by its owner smoke; what smoke does to the heart and he said that the smoke attacked the heart. After that he talked about the diseases caused by smoking like fatal lung cancer, gangrene; smoking also damages the teeth and your finger will change color from white fingers to yellow fingers.

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I will write about Mubarak Mohammed his presentation about Lebanon. He went to Lebanon in December 2010 in the winter; he visited Beirut and he saw events for the year 2011 and visited Beirut Solidere Street. He saw Beirut’s Cornish and he visited the American University. He visited in Beirut Al Hamra Street where there are many shops and restaurants; there are many international brands in Al Hamra Street and there are many cafes. They visited Le Royal Hotel and they went to the big water park in Lebanon and everyone can enter the park and the price is not high but in the season the price goes down or up and he enjoyed the park. They visited Alhabtor hotel; this hotel is owned by a United Arab Emirates businessman named Alhabtor in Mertopolitan palace. He visited Faraya in Lebanon where there are big snowy mountains and they went to the top of the mountain on chairlifts and they were skating on ice and they played on the snow in Faraya. They went to Lebanon in the winter in the summer it takes 4 hours from Abu Dhabi to Lebanon but in the winter it takes 3 and half hours as he said. He enjoyed Hamdon in Lebanon. He liked there food like kababs and the sea food and the salad fattouch and shish taouk. He said every winter they go with his family and sometime in the summers with his cousin or his friends. He likes Lebanon and the people are friendly with the visitors and he enjoyed with it with his family. 

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