SAFETY EDUCATION AND FIRST AID 399 



STORY TEST 



NED TELLS OF SOME DANGERS FROM SMOKING 

 Read carefully and critically. List errors and suggest corrections. 



I used to think because my father smokes that I would, but I have 

 changed my mind. In the first place, I tried it one day and it made me 

 beastly sick. About this time we made an experiment in school. The 

 teacher took one drop of nicotine which he got from an old pipe and 

 stirred it up in a small bowl of water and then placed in it one of the 

 goldfish from our school aquarium. It took just about five minutes 

 to kill that fish. Well, that gave me a reason for being so sick after 

 my first smoke. So I decided to investigate farther and do a little 

 reading. I found that all tobacco contains nicotine and that it passes 

 into the mouth with the smoke. Of course if you inhale, you carry 

 some of it down into your lungs and that's just too bad, for sooner or 

 later it poisons the tissues there. That I suppose accounts for the 

 shortness of wind that the smoker often has. According to a number 

 of experiments my teacher showed me, the smoker doesn't do as well 

 in athletics or in scholarship as the non-smoker. And I also read that 

 in Yale, I think it was, that non-smokers had smaller lung capacity 

 than smokers, and were shorter and smaller. I got enough dope to 

 make me feel certain that I don't care to try smoking now and I 

 doubt if I will want to smoke when I get older, for it takes a lot of 

 money that I could use to better advantage. 



PROBLEM VII. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE 

 OF SAFETY EDUCATION AND FIRST AID? 



Why Safety Education Is Important. Did you know 

 that last year over 34,000 people were killed in various 

 traffic accidents ; over 27,000 met their death in various 

 industrial accidents ; 13,000 more were killed by falls ; 

 and more than 6000 by burns and drowning? Over 

 90,000 people were killed, around 2,000,000 seriously 

 injured, and no one knows how many slightly injured 

 in one year. It is estimated that one out of every eleven 

 of the 23,000,000 motor vehicles registered in this country 

 is in an accident each year. In 1927, according to the 

 United States mortality statistics, while there was a 

 decrease in all other accidental deaths, in children of high 



