Tobacco can be used in several ways according to its presentation: inhaled (cigarette, cigar, straw cigarette); snuff; chewed (coil smoke), but in all its forms it is harmful to health. The toxic substances act on the most diverse systems and organs, contain more than 60 carcinogens.
Smoking causes about 50 different diseases, mainly cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart attack, angina, and stroke. It is responsible for many deaths from lung, mouth, larynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney and bladder cancer and obstructive respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema. Tobacco lowers the body's defenses and thus the smoker tends to increase the incidence of acquiring diseases such as influenza and tuberculosis. Tobacco also causes sexual impotence.
A. Spelling
b. Punctuation
c. Grammar
d. Noun
e. Verb
f. Fluency
g. Vocabulary
"The grass is always greener on the other side," she chirped, but her advice meaned nothing to me. I hope I helped :)
C. Growing bigger
However, I am still not too sure.
This question is incomplete. Here's the complete question.
Read Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Which statement BEST summarizes the central idea of the text?
A
Dr. Mortimer has no idea what happened to his friend, Sir Baskerville, but is
being nosy and trying to get true information from Sherlock Holmes by
feeding Holmes a few facts.
B. Dr. Mortimer is suspicious that something ghostly or superstitious had a hand in the death of his friend. Sir Baskerville.
C. Dr. Mortimer does not want Sherlock Holmes to continue his investigation, so he is giving Sherlock Holmes false information without Holmes realizing it.
D
. Dr Mortimer is attempting to convince Sherlock Holmes that Sir Baskerville's butler, Barrymore, lied to the police because he had a hand in the death of Sir Baskerville
Answer: B. Dr. Mortimer is suspicious that something ghostly or superstitious had a hand in the death of his friend. Sir Baskerville.
Explanation:
Dr. James Mortimer is a family friend as well as the doctor of the Baskervilles, and the estate executor of the recently departed Sir Charles Baskerville. The Baskerville family is believed to be cursed by a sinister black hound. Mortimer thinks that Charles´death may have had something to do with that curse.
