With Gen Z’s increased prevalence of mental health struggles, stress, and trauma, (1) ______. Gen Z, more than any other generation, is willing to discuss mental health openly, whether to trusted loved ones and friends or on social media for the whole world to see.
An estimated 87% of Gen Z young adults feel comfortable talking about mental health in general with other people, and 63% feel comfortable opening up about their own mental health struggles. Furthermore, one in three Gen Z young adults have posted about their mental health on their social media profiles. Just open up TikTok and search for a mental health keyword of choice, (2) ______.
(3) ______, Gen Z individuals are building an online community that might be more inclusive and supportive than ever for mental health, and normalizing and destigmatizing everything from dissociative disorders to psychiatric medications to inpatient hospitalization.
Beyond this, many are using their platforms to advocate for systemic changes and greater accessibility to resources and, ultimately, mental healthcare. This starkly contrasts older generations (4) ______, being told that mental health struggles were to be kept secret.
(5) ______, their openness is not only sparking meaningful discussions but also fostering a sense of belonging among individuals who might otherwise feel isolated. Moreover, by normalizing conversations around mental health, they are, to a great extent, encouraging others to seek support, thereby contributing to a broader cultural shift toward awareness and acceptance.
(Source: charliehealth.com)

(1) ______, the oily essence now called nicotine is the main active ingredient of tobacco. Nicotine, however, is only a small component of cigarette smoke, (2) ______. In recent times, scientific research has been providing evidence that years of cigarette smoking vastly increases the risk of developing fatal medical conditions.
In addition to being responsible for more than 85 percent of lung cancers, smoking is associated with cancers of, amongst others, the mouth, stomach and kidneys, and is thought to cause about 14 percent of leukemia and cervical cancers. In 1990, smoking caused more than 84,000 deaths, mainly resulting from such problems as pneumonia, bronchitis and influenza. Smoking, it is believed, is responsible for 30 percent of all deaths from cancer (3) ______.
Passive smoking, the breathing in of the side-stream smoke from the burning of tobacco between puffs or of the smoke exhaled by a smoker, also causes a serious health risk. A report published in 1992 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emphasized the health dangers, especially from side-stream smoke. This type of smoke contains smaller particles. (4) ______. On the basis of this report, the EPA has classified environmental tobacco smoke in the highest risk category for causing cancer.
As an illustration of the health risks, (5) ______, the latter is believed to have a 30 per cent higher risk of death from heart disease because of passive smoking. The risk of lung cancer also increases over the years of exposure and the figure jumps to 80 per cent if the spouse has been smoking four packs a day for 20 years. It has been calculated that 17 per cent of cases of lung cancer can be attributed to high levels of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke during childhood and adolescence.

There are two primary objections to multiculturalism. One is that multiculturalism privileges the good of certain groups over the common good, thereby potentially eroding the common good in favour of a minority interest. National unity could become impossible (1) ______. The second is that multiculturalism undermines the notion of equal individual rights, thereby weakening the political value of equal treatment. Equal individual rights could be set aside or deprecated (2) ______.
Multiculturalism raises other questions. There is the question of which cultures will be recognized. Some theorists have worried that multiculturalism can lead to a competition between cultural groups all vying for recognition and (3) ______. Such competition could even lead to a reaction in which the dominant culture sees itself as a beleaguered group in need of recognition and protection. Further, the focus on cultural group identity may reduce the capacity for coalitional political movements that might develop across differences. Some Marxist and feminist theorists have expressed worry about the dilution of other important differences (4) ______, such as class and sex, and the resulting neglect of policies that would minimise economic and gender inequalities. A related concern is that people might support activities that promote cultural diversity because they are popular, but they might avoid actions that address past discrimination because (5) ______.