AV Clip 14: Smoking and Social Class AV 14 Smoking & Social Class.avi Watch the video clip three times and complete the following passage by filling in each blank with the word from the video clip. The ill effects of smoking are now well documented. Smokers have high rates of heart disease, many types of cancer and great risks for (1)__________ death. But few studies have examined the (2)_________ between social class and smoking. Typically, people with more financial (3)________ enjoy better health. But the new research finds that smoking negated the benefit of social (4)_________. Doctors in Scotland tracked 15,000 middle-aged people for twenty years. They found people in higher social classes were (5)__________ less likely to smoke. However, more than four in ten still smoke regularly. But wealth offers no (6) ___________ from diseases linked to smoking. Across all classes, men and women who smoke were two or three times as likely to die from lung cancer. Non-smoking women have the greatest (7)_________ more than half still alive at the end of the study. There is also good news for those who have (8)________ the habit. The former smokers have the survival odds very close to participants who have never smoked. Answers: