When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Cigarette commercials 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.

Once you start, it’s hard to stop

People start smoking for a variety of 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.

(Texto original disponível em: htpp://kidshealth.org/teen/drug/alcohol/tobacco/sn. Acesso em: 09/07/2011.

Com base no texto Smoking, analise os itens a seguir:

I. As estatísticas mostram que a maioria dos usuários de cigarro (9 entre 10) começa a fumar antes dos 18 anos.

II. Até bem pouco tempo, havia comerciais de cigarro em toda parte, porém não era permitido aos jovens fumar em lugares públicos.

III. Todos os jovens podem comprar cigarros e fumar publicamente, desde que tenham permissão de seus pais ou responsáveis.

IV. Quase todos sabem que o cigarro pode causar doenças graves e encurtar o tempo de vida, mas continuam a fumar em razão do vício.

V. Há um tempo, as pessoas podiam comprar cigarros e fumar bastante em qualquer lugar, até mesmo em hospitais.

Assinale a alternativa que contém os itens CORRETOS.