Report

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.