STOP TO SMOKING! .

BREATH YOUR FREEDOM !

Smoking...Do
we really need it?

No!
Absolutely not.

So, why
don´t you quit?

Because I cannot.

This is a frequently answer from smokers.

What do we mean when we say that we cannot left them?

Smoking is one of the worst things that we can do against our own bodies. So, why do people smoke every single day?

According to the population, there is more than just one answer or reason why they smoke. Some of them may start smoking when they are kids because they feel very curious. Others may have the idea that smoking is a pleasure.

As a smoker I share the way of smokers think about cigarets. People feel that cigarets are a satisfaction or sometimes smoke means to feel more comfortable in social situations. But I have been thinking that people smoke cigarettes not because of their taste, they smoke them because of the sense of satisfaction that they get from them. After I wrote this I feel that this sounds like me, I mean I´m always saying that I smoke because they produced me a pleasure.

In spite of this sensation that sometimes we can feel with cigarets, people and I know that nicotine and other chemicals poisonous in tobacco can cause cancer and heart disease.

Some of the future illness that we can get from cigaretts are to have a bad breath, yellow teeth even we can have more colds and coughs. The longer we smoke, the worse the damage we do to our bodies and health. Because of that I think that I should stop to do it and think about wether the things I like about smoking are really worth risks. Economically is also bad, because we spend a lot of money buying them.

Nicotine can make us feel good, but we can also get from healthy activities like playing sports or help poor people.

The decision to start or continue smoking is all up to ourselves and no one can make us stop, but we should think really hard about whether it is the best thing for our body and life.

From now on, I will quit to smoking !

Victoria Pino Ruiz.

=)

My Magazine Article.

Sexual Education.

Attention Teachers !

"Wena Naty"


Some days ago, we as a nation were pretty surprised when a home video about a teenager nicknamed "Naty" who was having oral sex with a classmate was found on the web. The images were recorded from a cellphone and they are been circulating on the internet for several weeks, generating thousands of visits every day.



The big issue of this situation is that these images of this young girl are child porn which is considered a crime. For that reason these images are being turned into a topic of discussion in Chile about how sexual education is been showed at school.


Because of the video, "Naty" was expelled from her school, but the big question is; Did she have all the fault?. From my personal point of view, I think that she does not have fault, absolutely not, because she is a young girl who is been punished for her behaviour despite the fact that she had never received any information on these topic.


Naty´s expulsion from school it means that we are not support our students, and we should it, instead of stigmatizing and separating them. This situation is a help sign from our teens that we should be interpreted doing something important for them, like new politics about sexual education at school.


We, as a Chilean society have the great opportunity to discuss about sexual education with our children and families and tell them, that sex do not have anything bad, the thing is that we need to do it when we feel that we are prepared, because we love the other person and we must to do it with privacy. We can´t tell nor show all our lives to the internet, it could be dangerous.

((Victoria Pino.))