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Topic 24: Using Other Forms of Punctuation Correctly

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Exercise 2

Exercise 2

Each sentence has one or more errors in hyphenation. Correct the errors.

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	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. According to the Surgeon General, smoking remains the number-one cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, with obesity a close-second.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Smoking increases the risk for heart-disease, emphysema, and smoking related cancers.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. And it is now known that smoking increases susceptibility to respiratory-tract-infections and tumors.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Women who smoke during pregnancy increase their risk of pregnancy complications, premature-delivery, and low birth-weight infants.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Millions of people who don't actually smoke suffer the ill-effects of passive smoke when they breathe smoke filled air.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Research indicates that non-smokers who are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke double their risk of heart-attack.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Smokers have great difficulty breaking the habit, although 90 per-cent of ex smokers quit smoking on their own.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Reduced nicotine and nicotine-free-cigarettes still deliver carcinogenic chemicals.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Some aids, such as nicotine gum and the nicotine-patch, help many people kick the habit.

	This question provides a text area where you can enter a response. Some text has been provided in the text area.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Approximately one fourth of those receiving the nicotine-patch-in addition to anti-smoking counseling or support-have been successful.

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