Tobacco causes about 40,000 deaths per year in Spain. Smoking is forbidden in enclosed public places like schools and hospitals. Smoking can cause illnesses such as lung cancer, mouth cancer, coughs, and heart attacks. Cannabis refers to marijuana and hashish plants and products. Taking drugs can cause problems with concentration, memory, and coordination, and affect sexual development. Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat that can be harmful to health. By 2015, it is estimated that there will be over 2.3 billion overweight adults and over 700 million obese people worldwide. Factors causing obesity include diets high in calories from fat and sugar but low in nutrients, and lack of physical activity due to

1. WORKSHEET
UNHEALTHY HABITS
QUESTIONS
1. How many deaths will be produced by tobacco next year?
Tobacco causes in Spain about 40000 deaths every year.
2. Where is it forbidden to smoke in our society?
Law protects non smokers. It’s forbidden to smoke in schools, hospitals
or in any kind of enclosed public places.
3. What are the consequences for your body of smoking?
It brings about plenty of illnesses such as lung or mouth cancer, cough or
heart attacks.
4. What is cannabis?
It is the plant. Its by-products are the hashish and the marijuana.
5. What are the consequences for your body of taking drugs?
 Problems in the capacity of concentration and with our memory.
 It reduces the coordination.
 Change the sexual maturing hormones.
6. What is obesity?
Obesity or overweight are defined as a great accumulation of fats that
can be damaging for your health.
7. How many people will have obesity in the World in 2015?
The WHO estimates that, by 2015 there will be 2300 million adults with
overweight and more than 700 with obesity.
8. What factors cause obesity?
 A worldwide change in the diet eating food with a great quantity
of calories (fats and sugars) but few vitamins and minerals.
 We tend to reduce our physical activity due to sedentary nature of
many jobs or to several changes in transport.
9. What are the consequences of obesity?
Overweight have serious consequences for your health:
 Cardiovascular illnesses.
 Diabetes.
 Osteoarthritis
 Cancer
10. What do you think about the unhealthy habits?
We can speak about three unhealthy habits first: Tobacco, alcohol and drugs, the first
two are accepted by our society and they are very popular in families parties and
holiday eves, and our youth are taking both habits like a step toward adult life, maybe
this habit is between 14 and 25 years old, but the real problem will be when adult
people do not know how to control this consume.
If we accept cigarette and alcohol like normal habits and not like drugs, at the end we
will have a serious problem with our adults, but the real problem is that our government
earn money with this drug by taxes.
Drugs are not allowed in our society, but hashish and marihuana are the first step to
take cocaine and heroin, overall in parties and in the nightlife, but if someone has this
habits, they ruin our life in a few years.
Overweight is a problem in the rich countries, because we eat more than we need and
we don´t practice enough physical activity, in the other way, obesity is a genetic
problem and doctors and hospital have to care these patients.