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Let’s try and clear the air about some smoky issues
Dear readers,
this book is a present for you: a journey of discovery to help you deal with
an “adult”
problem that also affects “young people”, since both adults and young
people share the
same world and one day young people will become adults. It is also a
journey which will
let you find out that growing up is an incredible adventure, to which you
can give yourself
body and soul, and discover all the fantastic things that life has in store
for you.
Sabina Colloredo
I live and work in Milano, but whenever I can, I escape to my hilltop
farmhouse in the
Marche. That’s where I really come alive, where my writing really takes off.
I have two
children, Zoe and Olivia, who, over the years, together with their numerous
friends, have been an endless source of ideas which I have used in my books
both for children and for adults.
Giulia Ghigini, illustrator
I was born 28 years ago in Voghera, and showed artistic promise from an
early age. When
asked by my nursery school teachers, I lied by saying that I had drawing
lessons. Two hours later, my mother denied it.
Thus art and lies have been constant elements of my life.
After having studied art and illustrating, I started working at turning my
passion into a
profession. I have been drawing and illustrating all kinds of interesting
things for five years
now, such as this book which teaches you look at the world in which we live
through your
own eyes, and to work things out for yourself. I would never have imagined
earning a living
through drawing… fortunately, these jobs still exist!
The circle of stories
Lisa was stretched out on the carpet and Ago, her Alsatian puppy, was
licking her face.
“Well I’m never going to smoke!” she burst out, waving her legs in the air, “I
don’t see the
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point in all this research into the dangers of smoking. I certainly don’t want
to put any deadly gas into my body!”.
“But it isn’t a gas, and they don’t have to be smokers to do research on
smoking.” Filippo
interrupted. “ I’ve always got to explain everything.”
He looked out of the window. It was a grey damp afternoon that seemed
endless.
“Grown-ups are obsessed with smoking…” he said, “they smoke and then
tell you not to. I, on the other hand, am obsessed with this rain”.
“Now come on all of you!” broke in Chiara, tossing her red curls as she
spoke. “ We haven’t got much time! Let’s get on with it!”.
Three pairs of eyes looked at her hopefully.
“ Oh I get it. None of you have any ideas. Well, I have!”
She got up, took a torch, and put it on the floor.
“Let’s sit round in a circle” she said, turning it on. “You know, I was
thinking that we could
each say something about smoking, maybe a past experience, something
that we’ve read… then see what comes out of it. Who wants to start?”
Lisa’s story
Giacofumo the monster
Federico closed the curtains, and the beam of the torch made a big dim sun
on the ceiling. The four friends organised themselves into a circle, knees
almost touching, breath mingling. Ago pressed up against Lisa, and pushed
her with his muzzle, trying to find a place next to her.
“ I’ll start” said Lisa softly as she stroked him. “ Last summer something
happened to me
which I’ve never told anyone. I was in the park, and it was hot. Ago was
half-asleep, curled
up in the shade. There weren’t many children around and for once all I
could play on all the games. The week after, I had an athletics competition,
so I thought I’d make the most of it and do some training: (1) using the
bar, hop skip and jumps, swings and all the rest. Under the trees there was
a group of older kids, boys and girls. I knew one of them because he was a
friend of my brother.”
“Don’t tell me one of them was Giacomo!” said Chiara dreamily.
“ Giacomo himself, and he was chain-smoking. When I went near him, I
wanted to cough. (2)
So I held my breath, because I didn’t want his cigarette smoke breath to end
up in my lungs. He’s good-looking all right, that’s for sure. All the girls were
listening to him and laughed when he laughed, but close up, you could see
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he had spots all over his face…”
“What a shame!” sighed Chiara, “ but it’s true that smoking brings you out
in spots. I’m never going to smoke, because I hate spots, I do”.
“ They were talking softly among themselves” Lisa carried on “and I was
curious to hear what they were saying. I was getting bored and they seemed
to be having such a good time, so, between one game and another, I went
over to them. But suddenly, Giacomo turned round.
“Stop creeping up on me,” he breathed in my face, “what the hell do you
want!”. He was
trying to show off in front of the girls! He stubbed out his cigarette on the
ground and looked at me challengingly. Now you know I can’t keep quiet
about some things, so I said “You shouldn’t do that! It’s pollution”. (3)
“No!” exclaimed Federico, “ you really said that?”.
“ Sure. And then he pulled out a packet of cigarettes and waved them under
my nose: “I bet you really want one, you ecological little pain in the bum!”
he growled. Then he started to laugh and laugh and… he started to change.”
“Change?!” said the three friends.
“Yes! His eyes started bulging, his face started to change, to screw up, to…
to smoke! He
stared at me and smoke started to come out of his mouth, then his nose,
and then his ears! He looked like a monster! Giacomo the smoke-monster!
Ago ran over and started snarling at him.
Imagine! A little ball of fur like that and he was afraid! “Tell him to stop or
I’ll kick him!”
coughed Giacofumo. I started coughing too, because smoke was coming out
of him
everywhere, his neck, his shoulders, and I couldn’t even talk or breathe and
my heart was
beating so hard (4) because I was afraid! So then Giacofumo went to
kick Ago, but I grabbed his arm just in time and I was so angry that I just
wanted to hurt him… so I kicked him good and hard right in the shins!
“You ugly zitface!” I shouted and I ran away. Then Giacofumo coughed,
only it sounded like a shout ( 5) and he started running after me, and his
smoky arms stretched out and tried to grab my hair, but I twisted out of
the way and ran like the wind. He couldn’t keep up with me, though, all
that smoking had left him short of breath, and then…I didn’t hear him any
more. When I turned round, he was doubled up on the path and the smoke
coming from his mouth seemed to write the words bye bye in the air. Bye
bye to me? Bye bye to him, the big fat stinker! I gave Ago a kiss and he
smelled a bit of smoke as well. “Once we get home we’ll both have a good
wash!” I told him and he licked me.
Lisa stopped talking, and the others waited with baited breath. Chiara took
a pencil and
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notebook.
“ And who’s going to go for that?” she said. “Do you mean maybe that
cigarettes make people become nasty?”
“ I mean that some boys smoke to make themselves look big, but we know
very well that we don’t need all that stuff. Cigarettes give you zits, they
make your breath stink and you can’t even run to keep up with a little
shrimp like me!” (6)
Lisa looked at her friends’ faces.
“Why are you looking at me like that? Don’t you believe me? Well let’s hear
your stories
then!”
1) It’s great to be in shape
Do a sport that you like, on a regular basis. You will enjoy it, you’ll feel fit
and it’s a great
opportunity to meet new friends and have fun with them.
2) Smoking is poisonous
Do you know how many toxic substances there are in a cigarette?
Let’s smoke a few of them out together: nicotine, acetone, ammonia, DDT,
carbon monoxide, and…well, you work the full list for yourselves.
3) A land in smoke
There are about 13 million smokers in Italy. Their cigarette stubs thrown
away in the streets, pavements, beaches, parks and so on amount to
about… 72 billion! That’s more than ten times the number of people alive
on the Earth today.
This is a serious problem if you think that it takes from 1 to 5 years for a
cigarette filter to
break down! Find some other things that take as much time to fully
biodegrade.
4) Smoker’s heart,
sick heart.
5) Smoking damages the little hairs that line the respiratory passages and
which filter out dirt, bacteria and dust. Without these little hairs you are
much more susceptible to illness and disease!
6) Smoking is not a sport:
I crossed the finishing line first,
Because I’ve never smoked in my life.
Do you know an athlete’s heart beats per minute?
And a smoker’s?
And your own? Try and measure it!
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Filippo’s story:
If you think you’re tough, you’re not sure enough
Filippo grinned, grabbed the torch and pointed it up at himself.
“Wooooooooh!” he started howling, “ the monster!”.
Chiara snatched the torch and put it back where it was.
“Stop it! I bet you want to tell us a horror story!”
“Not this time, my dear, I’m going to surprise you!” cried Filippo.
He jumped to his feet and messed up his hair.
“You!” he said to Federico “ on the guitar!”
“ But I’ve got no guitar!” Federico replied.
Filippo raised his eyes to the ceiling.
“ Everything! I’ve got to tell you everything! Pretend you’ve got one, no? I
do a rap and you
play with me. Piano, guitar or drums… just pretend!”
Lisa clapped her hands delightedly: “I’m with you! Why don’t we pretend to
be your band?
I’ll play drums!”.
“Me on the guitar!” yelled Chiara.
“ and I’ve got no choice. On the piano…” grumbled Federico.
“Ready?” asked Filippo.
The band got into position, each with an imaginary instrument. “Readyyy!”
“ This song is called .… hm… got it! If you smoke, you’ve got it coming!”
Filippo pretended to have a microphone in his hand, and started:
In the big kids’ school
There’s lots of lads
With a fag in their mouth
Are they all mad?
Chorus of the three friends:
and who goes for that?
Yes, they’re mad,
their health gone bad!
Those kids they say
When you don’t know what to do
Light up a fag
The world’ll change for you
Chorus: and who goes for that?
I’ll change the world, too (1)
And faster as well, because
I’ve got more breath than you!
They also say
It makes you look neat
babes’ll watch you
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And as soon as you meet
They’ll give you the eye
And fall at your feet
Lisa and Chiara:
and who goes for that ? (2)
A tough guy with no breath
Never turned us on yet!
Clumsy with a fag
Sure, not you
The others all say:
who’s cool – it’s you.
Chorus: and who goes for that?
You get spots all day (3)
And when you smile
Your face is all grey
And it stays that way!
They all say
You get sick if you smoke
But you get sick if you don’t
So that’s just a joke
Chorus: Booooooo!
And who goes for that?
The lies that they tell
When they can’t see
The truth as well
They say if you start
You never stop
But I’m too smooth to lose
I’ll stop when I choose!
Chiara: “Lose?! You should say loose!”.
Filippo: “Shut it, babe! This rhyme is no crime!”.
Chorus: Hey guys
If you never smoke, you’ll always be cool
Yes oh yes, well
That is the ruuuuuuule!
Filippo twisted as he danced and bawled out the last word while the other
band members went crazy. Chiara swung her imaginary guitar around her
head, Lisa beat her hands and feet like a madwoman, while Federico was
the only one who sat calmly upright behind his piano.
“Great!” Chiara was the first to come back to normal, “What’s the message
from your rap
song, which I grudgingly admit was very good?”.
“Massage?!?” asked the three friends together. “What massage?”
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Chiara rolled her eyes.
“Message! Message means what we understand…”
Filippo scratched his head in confusion.
“Well...I don’t know…”
“What you mean is, you just sang a song that you didn’t understand?”
snapped Chiara.
“Something like that, smarty-pants. So what’s the message then?”
Chiara didn’t need to repeat it.
“What you sang was all the lies about smoking, like the teacher told us
today, you know…”
Everybody collapsed, yawning. Chiara stared at them, fire in her eyes.
“We’re not here to have fun! I was saying ONE: they say that if you smoke
you feel more
mature. (4) TWO: they say that you can only join a group if you smoke”.
“But that’s not true!” Federico interrupted her, “ We’re a group (5) of nonsmokers! And it’s
great!”.
“I know, but that’s what smokers say! And stop interrupting! THREE: they
say that one little
cigarette can’t possibly kill!”
“No, it just makes you ill…” Filippo carried on with the rhyme.
“FOUR: they say smoking helps you get to meet boys or girls.”
“Oh yes?” interrupted Federico, “ How does it do that?”
“You can tell us all later!” teased Filippo.
Everybody laughed, as Federico went red in the face and threw himself on
Filippo. The two rolled around on the floor, but they were only playing.
“Guys, guys!” Chiara tried to calm them down, “Anyway, to sum it up, we
can say that people who smoke want us to believe that smoking makes you
feel good, so what do we reply? (6) »
And the three friends replied in unison: “ I can’t go for that!”.
1) In your own small way, you can accomplish big things:
Write down the first three things that you can think of to improve the world
around you.
2) Grow up independently
So as not to depend on other people, learn to compare yourself with them.
Say what you think and listen to the opinions of others.
3) A danger to the skin
Smoking damages the skin, because the harmful substances in smoking help
to close the
pores and lead to blackheads and spots. Instead, make a list of lifestyle
elements that help to keep the skin pure and healthy.
4) Being great by being small
You are great if you spend some time playing with your little brother.
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You are small if you force him to something he doesn’t want so that you feel
big.
5) Become part of a group because you are accepted for what and how you
are and not
because you do what they tell you to.
6) Do you smoke? No, I live.
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Federico’s story:
All the smells in the world
Now everybody looked at Federico.
“I like smells” he said in such a low voice, that the others had to move
closer to hear him.
“All of them. Even the nasty ones. Fragrances are like musical notes. There
are no good or
bad notes: you put them together in a different way and they create a
different music, even if notes, like smells, are still always the same.”
Filippo looked at the others and tapped the side of his head.
“ I couldn’t live without smelling scents and fragrances. This is why I’m
never going to
smoke(1), because smoking destroys tastes and smells.”
“Finally we’ve got to the point” mumbled Chiara.
“I’m so sensitive to smells that I wake up in the morning when our
neighbour makes the
coffee, except on Sunday when the smell of cooking onions and herbs wakes
me up. Usually on Sunday she makes bolognese sauce. Then I think she
goes to Mass, because I can smell incense when she comes back.”
Lisa glanced at Filippo, who rolled his eyes and made to interrupt.
“For example, you, Lisa, you smell of sport. You have the smell of freshlywashed sports-kit and sun on your skin. Someone who does sport has a
healthy smell. Take care of yourself(2), and you can take on the world.
In general, this is the smell of a person who knows what they want, but
gently.”
Lisa sniffed her tracksuit.
“And you, Chiara, you have the smell of perfection. It’s a neutral smell,
which surrounds
people who know what they want like a cloud. It’s a smell that gives a sense
of security.
What’s more, you eat healthily(3). Not rubbish like Filippo. You eat fruit and
vegetables, even cooked, which none of us do. And you can tell. You never
have breath like rancid milk like Filippo.”
“Hey, wait a minute!” Filippo burst out, “why am I always the bad
example?”.
“And then there’s Filippo. He never does sport, he’s always playing
videogames. He doesn’t like to dream, he doesn’t know much about music,
he eats rubbish. He has the smell of a child who is growing up(4), really. It
isn’t that it’s a bad smell, it’s a smell that is evolving, changing, just like your
thoughts. You are the most interesting case I’ve come across. You could well
end up with that grey, slightly worn out smell, a smell of everything-all-atoncewithout-a-break. Or that smell of: I’m going to change the world, follow
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me. Who knows – anyway, I’ll keep an eye on you!”
Filippo, Chiara and Lisa were sniffing each other.
“And then there’s me. Tell me what smell I have.”
Lisa drew near: “May I?” and she started to sniff him.
“You smell of music, of a spellbound child who looks out of the window and
sees what others don’t see.”
“Is it a good smell?” Federico asked hesitatingly.
“Very good, unique.”
“Hey, no!” burst out Filippo. “That doesn’t count – it’s not a story! I’m not
going to go for
that – it doesn’t tell me anything!”
“And yet it does, and how!” Chiara intervened, taking the notebook out of
Lisa’s hands. “It
tells us that Federico is a poet and that you smell, and that Lisa is a sporty
type and that I’m perfect. It tells us that anyone who smokes can’t enjoy
fragrances or smells (5), or tastes, that cooks don’t smoke and that smokers
don’t appreciate good food (6), because their taste buds have been infested
with nicotine.”
“Bang!” exploded Filippo, “Big words!”.
“It tells us that if you eat healthily and do sport and read books you are
attractive and sweetsmelling like Lisa and me, and that life is beautiful
without smoking, and that we’ll never start smoking, because we’re smarter
and self-confident than those who do and think they are, even if they’re
not.”
Filippo was annoyed. He sniffed his armpits, then pointed at Federico. “So
why does he
always get special treatment?”
“He’s our Federico - the only one in the world” said Lisa, while Federico
stared in
embarrassment at his hands.
“Come on, let’s go and get a snack!” Chiara got up suddenly.
Filippo rushed off towards the kitchen, then stopped dead in the middle of
the room. The
others all bumped into him. “You’re not going to give us cooked vegetables,
now, are you?”
1) Never light the first cigarette, because you don’t know which will be your
last.
2) Your body is beautiful if you take care of it and look after it.
3) If you want to grow up fit and strong, be curious when you are eating:
taste and eat a little of everything, drink a lot of water and fill your plate
with colourful fruit and vegetables.
4) A great change
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We change in order to remain ourselves. When you are growing up, your
body and your
character change continually, but don ‘t worry about it. You are always still
yourself!
5) Other people’s smoke never gives up and always sticks to you.
6) Smoking is the enemy of good cooking
Changes in tastes are caused by changes in the sense of smell, just like
when you have a cold and you can’t taste anything! Smoking does the same;
it damages the tissues in the nose and reduces your ability to detect and
enjoy both smells and flavours.
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Chiara’s story
Together for ever
Chiara, now inspired, took a deep breath and looked straight ahead.
“What I want to tell you now is very important. Really. And no-one else
knows.”
She stopped to see what effect her words had had.
None at all: Filippo yawned, Lisa was playing with Ago, and Federico was
staring at his
hands in silence.
“Well, I listened to you!» she shouted.
The three of them jumped, and sat up around the torch, like they were
before.
“I was saying… It’s one of those secrets that grown-ups wouldn’t
understand. I’ll tell only
you and then we’ll forget about it!”
“Listen,” interrupted Filippo “don’t drag it out so long, or whatever you’ve
got to say will be
a disappointment.”
Chiara put the notebook on the floor and leaned forward.
“The other day my mother was on the sofa, the one right behind us. She
had dozed off, which happens quite often just lately, because her tummy’s
large and she says it weighs a lot. The baby should be born pretty soon!
Anyway, I didn’t know what to do, so I started talking to my sister.”
“Sister, what sister?” Lisa piped up “You haven’t got a sister!”
“The sister that’s about to be born, obviously. I put my ear to Mum’s
stomach and I heard her moving. A quick movement, just like a real
swimmer. She was getting into position, you see?
That means she’s going to turn out to be smart, like me.”
“Sure. All geniuses in your family, right?” said Filippo with heavy irony.
“But in position for what?” asked Lisa.
“For talking, what else?”
“Hi Chiara” she said “ I’ll be with you before long. Are you ready?”.
“Yes” I replied. “I’ve put your cot next to the bed, so I can give you your
dummy at night.”
“What does this dummy taste of, then?”
“Rubber. But trust me, babies like it. Then, when you get older, you’ll get to
like chewing
gum, when you’ve got teeth, that is.”
“And what’s Mummy like?”
“You’d know her better than me – you see her from inside.”
“She’s not like you think. In here, you feel, but you can’t see.”
“She’s nice, I’d say. Happy. Lazy. She’s a good cook. She doesn’t ask how
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school went when you come home. It’s a pity she smokes...”
“I know, I can feel it. You must tell her to stop. It’s not doing us any good.”
(1)
“Don’t you think I haven’t tried everything? It’s not like adults pay much
attention to us
children, it’s only when you really kick up a stink they sometimes start
to listen. For example, this story about smoking, she used to smoke like
a chimney. Then I started nagging her. She smokes, but I get smoked
out, understand? So I showed her an article about the dangers of passive
smoking, that’s what they call it, which we read about at school. I stuck it to
the fridge
in the kitchen. Don’t I have any rights, she asked angrily, and I said sure
you do, as long as they don’t damage mine. (2)
So, days of arguing. Now she smokes on the balcony.” (3)
“But I can’t go out on the balcony” said my little sister. She was sleepy. I
think she had dozed off as well, while I was talking.”
“I can understand it!” interrupted Filippo, “ all this talk of rights, you sound
like the news on
T.V!”.
“I know what I’m talking about. (4) I’m not ignorant like you!”
“Carry on, ignore him” said Federico, who up to now hadn’t said a thing,
but who was clearly following the story.
“Don’t worry” I told her. “It’s true, they say that mothers who smoke have
babies who are
smaller, but you’re going to be an exception. You’re going to be a healthy
little dumpling, at
least going by the size of this stomach!”
“I can’t wait to meet you” she whispered, “You talk so much, it’s making me
sleepy!”
“Hahahahaha!” Filippo roared with laughter, “I like her!”.
Chiara ignored him.
“I don’t want milk that tastes of smoke” she added in a tiny voice.
“Smoked milk?” I suggested.
We both burst out laughing. She gurgled a little – some water had gone down
the wrong way.
“Now I want to have a nap with my mummy.”
“Hang on, wait a minute, you’re always sleeping. Do you think you’re going
to be a sporty
girl, or a softy cry-baby?”
“Which is better? That is, which gets more cuddles?”
“Cry-babies, Mum always cuddles them. Sporty girls get cuddles from their
friends.”
“And from the sister?”
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“Always”
She laughed, a delicate educated little laugh.
“When I come out I want to see you first of all!”, That’s what she said,
understand? It’s
obvious: she loves me to bits!”
Filippo screwed up his nose: “ A bit of uncertainty wouldn’t do you any
harm”.
“She was yawning, and then suddenly I had an idea. I asked “but do you
remember anything about where you’ve come from?”.
“Sure” she answered, and her voice changed.
“Do you want to tell me about it?” I was already thinking about how good I
would look in
class the next day.”
“And..?” prompted Lisa.
“Later, when you’re asleep., in your dream…” she said.
“And…?” this time it was Filippo.
“And.. to tell the truth, I dreamt it all!”
“But…?” now it was Federico.
“As soon as I woke up, I had forgotten it all, it’s always like that with
dreams!”
Filippo rolled his eyes.
“You’ve forgotten the secret of all secrets?!” he shouted, “I can’t go for
that!”.
“To sum up, from your story, what we understand is…” said Lisa, grabbing
the notebook,
“sorry Chiara, you’ve been speaking so I’m going to write now. I was saying,
now what we
understand is that...”
“One: you shouldn’t smoke when you are pregnant” said Federico “because
it damages the baby. Two : you shouldn’t smoke in bars ”. (5)
“What’s that got to do with it?” Chiara glowered at him.
“You didn’t say it, but it’s got everything to do with it, and your sister’s too
young to drink or
else she’d know! Three: Having a smoker around is harmful even for those
who don’t smoke (6)” continued Federico unperturbed, “Four: Smoking
pollutes the air and the environment as much as car exhausts do.”
“I didn’t say that either!”
“But it’s true!”
“Stick to the subject!”
“ It IS the subject! I never say anything and when I do you interrupt me?!
Five: Parents and
children should talk about these things. Us children are people as well, and
we have rights,
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too. We studied them at school, so don’t look at me like that.”
Lisa was writing all this down: “Anything else?”.
“You’ve forgotten the most important thing!” Filippo interrupted.
“Which is?”
“That babies like rubber! Ha ha ha!”
“ And babies don’t like you! Ha ha ha!” replied Chiara, taking back the
notebook, “now come on, I’ll dictate and you write!”
“ Oh no!” they all shouted.
Someone grabbed the torch and turned it off . Federico opened the curtains.
“Look!” he cried “The sun’s shining!”.
“Exactly!” Chiara motioned them all to sit back down “It’s the perfect
moment to write up our research.”.
THE END
1) As far back as the womb
If your mother is expecting a baby brother or sister, all the food for the
baby passes through the umbilical cord… and if she smokes, so do all the
dangerous substances in cigarettes. Thus the unborn baby either becomes
sick, or doesn’t develop properly.
The baby can’t defend itself, it’s up to you to protect its rights !
2) Always listen to what adults tell you, but find the courage to say what
you think.
3) If Mum or Dad want to stop smoking, you should know that the first 24
hours after the last cigarette will be the most difficult. How can you help
them?
You could suggest that they stop while they are on holiday or at the
weekend : they will be more relaxed and you can spend more time together.
On the day in question, why not organize a trip or something entertaining:
it will distract them!
4) Knowing your rights is a duty
Do you know your rights? There is a charter of children’s rights that you
can read together
with your parents or in class at school. Don’t take them for granted, there
are lots of children in this world who don’t yet have these rights.
5) Smoke-free generations
I don’t smoke
You don’t smoke
He doesn’t smoke
We smile
You are all happy
They will live a long time
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6) Filtered children
Passive smoking is not just when we breathe tobacco smoke that comes
from other people’s cigarettes, but also when we spend time in places where
people have been smoking, because the dangerous particles remain trapped
in the atmosphere and furniture.
Passive smoking is more dangerous for children, because their respiratory
tracts are smaller and they breathe more often.
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It’s never too late
They say it’s never too late to stop smoking, but do you know why?
Let’s find out together!
Look at the pictures on the next page.
On one side (the smoky side!) you can read all about the harm that
smoking does to the
human body.
On the other (the healthy one!) you can discover all the benefits that come
from
stopping smoking, hour by hour, day by day and so on.
What more is there to say?
If you stop smoking, it takes very little for your body to get back to its
proper healthy
shape!
HEALTHY SIDE
After two hours nicotine starts to be eliminated from the body when you go
to the toilet.
After twelve hours, the blood starts to carry more oxygen.
After a week, your breath is better and your teeth are cleaner.
After a week your hair is healthier and your skin is healthier, too.
After a week, your body no longer feels the need for a cigarette.
After a month, your lungs are more able to defend themselves against illness
and infection.
SMOKY SIDE
People who smoke have yellow teeth, more fillings and bad breath .
People who smoke are short of breath and have no energy.
People who smoke don’t develop properly.
People who smoke have acne, and rough, grey wrinkled skin .
People who smoke have dull hair.
People who smoke can only think of one thing: the next cigarette.
People who smoke stink of it.
People who smoke are ill more often.
People who smoke have stomach aches more often.
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IV di COPERTINA
This is the tale of four friends who, in an attempt to find out the truth, tell
each other their
stories. Their stories are a breath of fresh air , even if they talk about
smoke, nicotine, and
other more or less smoky things…
COLOPHON libro classe
For Walce (Women Against Lung Cancer in Europe)
President: Silvia Novello
Project coordination: Raffaella Ronchetta
Supervision: Cristina Mantovani; Maria Vittoria Pacchiana
WALCE /o AOU San Luigi
II Padiglione II Piano
Regione Gonzole 10, 10043 Orbassano (TO)
Tel. 011.9026980
Fax 011.9038616
www.womenagainstlung cancer.eu, ufficiostampa@womenagainstlungcancer.eu
Editorial project: Carthusia Edizioni
Editorial management: Patrizia Zerbi
Editorial coordination: Silvia Marelli
Art Director: Elisa Galli
Story: Sabina Colloredo
Illustrations: Giulia Ghigini
We would like to thank Autostrade per l’Italia for their support.
With the sponsorship and support of the Piedmont Region, the Province of
Turin, the Province of Asti, the
Province of Cuneo, The Istituto Superiore di Sanità – the Piedmont
Regional Educational Office
© 2010 Carthusia Edizioni
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