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As a little topic this term we are doing tobacco and I'm getting information about tobacco in general.
==Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus nicotiana. Tobacco has been smoked in one form or another since about 2000 bc. Tobacco is commercially available in dried, curled, and in natural forms, in adition to being in cigaretts and cigars. Tobacco can also be chewed, dipped (placed between the cheek and gum) or sniffed into the nose as finely powered snuff. Tobacco can cause bad breath, stained teeth, weezing, coughing, and makes your hair and cloths smell bad therefore smoking is not the road to popularity. Overall smokers weigh less than non smokers, how ever smoking is not likely to cause visible change in weight. Exersize is a healther and longer lasting approach to weight loss.== ==There are approximately 4,000 chemicals in a cigarate smoke, many of them are toxic. Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after the smoke is inhaled. Every year thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking, and one in two lifetime smokers die from there habit, half of these deaths will occour in middle age. Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers. A 20 a day smoker breaths up to a full cup (210g) of tar a year. Tobacco is a plant whose leaves are dried and made into cigarets ect. Cigarets are prehaps the only leagal product which is harmful to the body and is proven a cause of cancer. Nicotine causes the heart to beat faster and makes it more difficult for the lungs, stomarch and kidneys to preform propely. Every eight seconds someone in the world dies due to tobacco, and over 50,000 people die due to secound hand smoke in the US alone. people who smoke may not understand or they may choose to ignore all the risks listed on the labbles of tobacco products.== ==The health risks of tobacco are well known and yet the rates of smoking and the use of chewing ect tobacco continue to grow. many people are picking up these habit when they are young in fact 90% of all adult smokers started when they were kids and each day more than 4,400 kids become regular smokers. It is imporntant to make sure that your child understands that go with tobacco smoking. smoking can cause cancer heart disease or lung disease. Chewing nicotine can lead to nicotine addition oral cancer, gum disease and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease including heart attacks. if you help your child with the risks with smoking and chewing tobacco and make clear rules and your reasons for them you can help prevent your child from picking up those unhealthy habits. One of the major problems with smoking is to do with the chemical nicotine. A person can get addicted to nicotine within days of a first time with it.== ==the nicotine in tobacco can be as additive as cocaine or heroine. Nicotine effect a persons mood as well as the heart lungs stomarch and nerve system. smoking also can lead to bronchitis and emphysema. finally studies indicate that young smokers are more likely to experiment with marijuana, cocaine, herawine or other illicit drugs. You can tell if someone is a smokes because you can smell smoke on there clothing==

=2009= =This term we are focusing on take action for water, it is a program that is teaching about the effects our waste is taking on our mauri or life force in our streams and rivers. We are doing a production to show what we have learnt this term and to share some of the information that we have to help clean up our water ways.=

To find out more information about our native fish we had to do a report about one of them I did the banded kokopu here is a copy of it:
==Banded Kokopu Banded Kokopu are a small New Zealand native fish, with thin vertical bands across their backs, the colors that are found on a banded kokopu are purple, yellow, pink and blue. They usually grow to about 180 mm (18cm) long. Banded kokopu mainly feed on beetles and leaves that have fallen into the stream or river. They eat with there mouth just like us but without hands, they swim up to the pice of food, open there mouth and eat it. The adults live in small tributaries (A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake) with nearly a full overhead canopy of vegetation. The younger ones swim around as a part of the white bait clusters where they grow up then swim up into streams to where the adults live. Banded Kokopu are predators to tree weta, caddisfly adult, orb-web spider and other insects that live or fall into the stream. They are eaten by Long fined eels. Banded Kokopu have special sensors along the side of there bodies that help them sense when insects and spiders fall into the water.==

=Term two= ==This term we started with a topic called "whats the plan stan?" This topic covered disasters mainly natural but there were a couple man made. I studied the Napier earthquake, I learnt that a ninty year old man survived for three days trapped under rubble until beind rescued. I also learnt about the ammounts of people that died and how many had to be taken into Napier to try and fix the area.==