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                Smoking is really, really bad for your body and your mind. There are so many reasons why you shouldn’t smoke, and if you don’t smoke, never do, and if you do smoke you have to stop. The first reason why you shouldn’t smoke is that it can cause lung cancer. Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths worldwide. As the Mayo Clinic Staff says,”People who smoke have the greatest risk of lung cancer, though lung cancer can also occur in people that have never smoked.” Even if you don’t smoke your risk of lung cancer can increase if you’re exposed to secondhand smoke. Second hand smoke means that if you’re around someone who is smoking you’re still breathing in the smoke, but you're not getting as much as the person who is smoking. Some symptoms of lung cancer are a cough that never goes away, chest pain, shortness of breath, bone pain, and headache, ect. Lung disease is another reason you shouldn’t smoke. Smoking is the nu...

  Gerbils            Gerbils aren’t well known but thats just because they aren’t as common as the hamster, or guinea pig. This is because gerbils aren’t found in many pet stores for kids to look at and ask their ”Mommy” for one, but they are slowly becoming more popular.              Gerbils can eat a wide variety of things. For example their favorite things are sunflower seeds and timothy hay, but they can also eat carrots, cucumber, pumpkin, melon, apple, pear, oranges, and other fruit and veggies. Just make sure you look up if gerbils can eat a certain food before you feed it to them. Things such as grapes, and rhubarb are poisonous to gerbils. A couple of great treats for gerbils are meal worms, and millet. (a type of seed)        Gerbils originally are from the dryer parts of Africa and Asia. They are burrowing rodents so they prefer the ...