Artikel Bahasa Inggris "Smoking Is Not Good For Our Health"

Does anyone know why smoking isn’t good for our health? Because smoking is responsible for several diseases, such as cancer, long-term respiratory diseases, and heart disease as well as premature death.

Over 440,000 people in the USA and 100,000 in the UK die because of smoking each year. The effects of smoking are serious. It can harm nearly every organ of the body. When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines. Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction.

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal. People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.

There are no physical reasons to start smoking. The body doesn't need tobacco the way it needs food, water, sleep, and exercise. And many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high enough doses. The consequences of this poisoning happen gradually. Over the long term, smoking leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema and many types of cancer. Including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. People who smoke also have an increased risk of infections like bronchitis and pneumonia.

These diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active, and they can be fatal. In the United States, smoking is responsible for about 1 out of 5 deaths. The consequences of smoking may seem very far off, but long-term health problems aren't the only hazard of smoking. Nicotine and the other toxins in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes can affect a person's body quickly, which means that teen smokers experience many of these problems, there are, bad skin, bad breath, bad smelling of clothes and hair, reduced athletic performance, greater risk of injury and slower healing time, and increased risk of illness.

Now I would like to give you some recommendation how to stop smoking. Make sure that you get as much support as you can from family, friends and work colleagues. Let them know you are planning to quit, and ask smokers not to smoke around you or offer you cigarettes. Quitting with a friend can also be an excellent idea, you can share your feelings and encourage each other. And you are also should remove all things that can make remind you about smoking. Throw out all cigarettes, ashtrays and lighters and anything else that might remind you of smoking. Wash your clothes and clean your car to remove the smell of smoke.

So ladies and gentleman, being a smoker is not your destination, it’s your choice. For example, I have a short story of a woman that lives in the New York, her names is Beatrice, now she is  40 years old, she is the mother of two boys. She tried her first cigarette at age 7, her second at 11, and then began smoking regularly when she was 13. She had friends who smoked, and she wanted to be "cool" like them. More than 25 years later, Beatrice still smoked. She was not a heavy smoker and had not been diagnosed with any smoking, related health problems, but she wanted to quit. Her family also wanted her to quit. Although she had tried many times before, in 2010, Beatrice quit for good. She encourages anyone who wants to quit smoking to do it, but to get help if they need it.

Artikel Bahasa Indonesia "Pengaruh Film Luar Negeri Terhadap Perfilman Indonesia"

Film adalah salah satu pasar budaya. jika aliran budaya luar negeri terus membanjiri Indonesia, maka budaya sendiri lambat laun akan tersisihkan. Film luar negeri yang di tayangkan telah ikut bertanggung jawab akan perubahan moril dan pergeseran budaya yang terkandung dalam film lokal. Padahal tidak semuanya bagus dan bias untuk disajikan sehubungan dengan adat dan kebudayaan Indonesia.

 Dewasa ini banyak dari film local yang mengadopsi dan bahkan menjiplak habis film luar negeri. Hal ini tentu saja akan mematikan kreatifitas dan memundurkan kreasi dari penyedia film lokal. Ruang gerak sineas akan menjadi sempit dan cenderung mengikuti aliran film yang di gemari.

Penonton akan lebih suka gaya dari film luar negeri, sebut saja film “Harry Potter”, “Step Up”, atau film “Boys Before Flowers”. Para penonton kerap menyamakan atau meniru seluruh pribadinya dengan salah satu peran film. Para penonton juga seolah mengalami adegan dalam film. Film tersebut seperti menghipnotis para penontonnya. Membuat film Indonesia semakin jelek di mata masyarakat, karena minat masyarakat yang lebih besar terhadap film luar negeri tersebut.

Para pembuat film pun mau tidak mau pun membuat film yang bergaya sama seperti film luar negeri tersebut. Karena keinginan membuat film yang bergaya sama, para pembuat film pun tidak memperhatikan tentang isi moral, budaya, nilai agama, dan etika di dalam film mereka. Sebut saja “Tali Pocong Perawan”, “Rintihan Kuntilanak Perawan”, dan “SKANDAL”. Film tersebut telah keluar dari moral, nilai agama, etika, dan budaya Indonesia. Belum lagi bila anak di bawah umur yang menontonnya.

Dalam pertumbuhan seorang anak, setiap tindakannya terkait dengan kecenderungan dan kemauan serta kehidupan emosional yang bersentuhan dengan factor lingkungan yang sifatnya amat kompleks dan bervariasi. Salah satu factor lingkungan yang paling berpengaruh terhadap pembentukan watak dan pribadi seseorang adalah media yang berbentuk bacaan atau film.berbagai nilai estetis, moral, sosial, kultural, maupun teoritis melalui media tersebut sangat mempengaruhi baik secara langsung maupun tidak langsung bagi seluruh perkembangan watak pribadi anak.

Pemutaran film korea dan barat juga menjadi sebuah pemaknaan yang terus - menerus, hingga masyarakat Indonesia tanpa sadar telah membentuk kesadaran baru bahwa kebudayaan Korea dan barat dianggap lebih baik dari budaya sendiri. Baik dalam hal-hal yang wajar dan tidak wajar seperti berpakaian seksi dan menata rambut dengan gaya yang tidak wajar

Pemerintah pun telah mengeluarkan Undang undang tentang perfilman di Indonesia, diantara lain adalah pasal 41 tentang ekspor film dan impor film yang berisikan bahwa pemerintah mencegah masuknya film impor yg bertentangan dengan nilai agama etika moral kesusilaan dan budaya bangsa. Pasal 80 tentang ketentuan pidana yang berisikan tentang sitap orang yang dengan sengaja mengedarkan, menjual, menyewakan, atau mempertunjukkan kepada khalayak umum film tanpa lulus sensor padahal diketahui isinya, dipidana penjara selama dua tahun atau denda Rp.10.000.000.000,00 (sepuluh miliar rupiah)

Namun masih saja ada yang melanggar ketentuan tersebut. Menyebabkan dapat tersebarnya film-film yang tidak sehat untuk di tonton bagi masyarakat Indonesia.