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From the Ted Talk by Krishna Sudhir: How do cigarettes affect the body?

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cteitgares aren’t good for us. That’s hardly news—we’ve known about the dngeras of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us? Let’s look at what happens as their ingredients make their way through our bodies, and how we benefit physically when we finally give up smoking.

With each inhalation, smkoe brings its more than 5,000 chemical substances into contact with the body’s tissues. From the start, tar, a black, resinous material, begins to coat the teeth and gums, damaging tooth enamel, and enluvtelay causing dceay. Over time, smoke also damages nerve-endings in the nose, causing loss of smell.

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__________ aren’t good for us. That’s hardly news—we’ve known about the _______ of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us? Let’s look at what happens as their ingredients make their way through our bodies, and how we benefit physically when we finally give up smoking.

With each inhalation, _____ brings its more than 5,000 chemical substances into contact with the body’s tissues. From the start, tar, a black, resinous material, begins to coat the teeth and gums, damaging tooth enamel, and __________ causing _____. Over time, smoke also damages nerve-endings in the nose, causing loss of smell.

Solution


  1. cigarettes
  2. dangers
  3. eventually
  4. smoke
  5. decay

Original Text


Cigarettes aren’t good for us. That’s hardly news—we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us? Let’s look at what happens as their ingredients make their way through our bodies, and how we benefit physically when we finally give up smoking.

With each inhalation, smoke brings its more than 5,000 chemical substances into contact with the body’s tissues. From the start, tar, a black, resinous material, begins to coat the teeth and gums, damaging tooth enamel, and eventually causing decay. Over time, smoke also damages nerve-endings in the nose, causing loss of smell.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
carbon monoxide 2
blood vessel 2
lung cancer 2
blood pressure 2
heart disease 2


Important Words


  1. begins
  2. benefit
  3. black
  4. bodies
  5. brings
  6. causing
  7. chemical
  8. cigarettes
  9. coat
  10. contact
  11. damages
  12. damaging
  13. dangers
  14. decades
  15. decay
  16. enamel
  17. eventually
  18. finally
  19. give
  20. good
  21. gums
  22. harm
  23. ingredients
  24. inhalation
  25. loss
  26. material
  27. nose
  28. physically
  29. resinous
  30. smell
  31. smoke
  32. smoking
  33. start
  34. substances
  35. tar
  36. teeth
  37. time
  38. tissues
  39. tooth