"Smoker's Epitaph"

Write a "Smoker's Epitaph" Anti-Smoking Poem.  Follow this link to see examples and find instructions on how to write the epitath.

Effects of Smoking on Your Health

How does smoking cigarettes effect your health?  Read the following article from Teens Health and describe what smoking does to your circulatory and respiratory system.

What is asthma?

What is asthma?  What are the causes?  What are the symptoms?  How can it be controlled?  Can it be cured? 

Read this article from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to help you answer the above questions. 

Why do we have an appendix?

If we can remove your appendix why we all have one anyways?  Read the following article:  What the appendix is good for - Some body parts seem pointless but in fact have purpose, by Emily Sohn.

What is a vestigial organ?  Why do we have an appendix, what does it do?  Why does living in undeveloped ntries versus living in the US matter - what does this have to do with your appendix?  What are some of our other vestigial organs and why do we have them?