health - part 2 - listening

Smoking is also the ....1......  of cancer.  .....2...... say forty percent of cancers could be  .....3...... by avoiding health risks like smoking and ......4..... use.

Smoking also causes forty-two percent of cases of chronic respiratory .......5...... , including asthma, bronchitis and emphysema.  And, it causes ten percent of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and .....6.... .

The medical .....7...... community is continually reporting reasons why smokers should stop.  A recent study found that people who smoke are nearly two times as likely as non-smokers to develop Alzheimers disease.  Alzheimers weakens or destroys memory and reasoning.

In the study, researchers examined forty-three published studies about the link between .....8..... disease and smoking.  They found that smoking increased the risk of Alzheimers developing by one and seven-tenths percent.  The researchers work at the University of California in San Francisco.  Their findings were .......9......... in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease.

In an earlier study, seven thousand people were .....10........ for an average of seven years.  Each person was fifty-five years or older.  Those who smoked were fifty percent more likely to ....11......memory loss than those who never smoked, or who had ...12.......

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