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When John Paul Yong sang his disco classic Love Is in the air, he probably wasn’t thinking about human beings (34) ______ smells into the atmosphere to attract potential mates. However, the success of this song in the 1990s coincided with an increasing interest from the scientific community in discovering why people fall in love.
The first scientists to investigate love in depth were sociologists, and they quickly destroyed the common belief that people fall in love with each other because of (35) ______. They discovered that reality was much less romantic. In 2005, sociologists Christine R Schwartz and Robert D Mare presented a paper on their extensive study of couples (36) ______ had married between 1940 and 2005 that showed that people very rarely marry someone who has a different level of education from theirs. Neither, according to research by (37) ______academics, do we fall for people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, nor with different beliefs. Sociologists concluded that we want to go out with people who are just like us. (38) ______, you can walk into a room level of education, intelligence and looks as you, and you are unlikely to fall in love with any of them.

Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warned specialists. Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to blindness, a poll for the Association of Optometrists (AOP) finds. Smokers are twice as likely to lose their sight compared with non-smokers, as tobacco smoke can cause and worsen a number of eye conditions.
Cigarette smoke contains toxic chemicals that can irritate and harm the eyes. Additionally, Smoking can make diabetes-related sight problems worse by damaging blood vessels at the back of the eye. Smokers are also around three times more likely to get age-related macular degeneration - a condition affecting a person's central vision, meaning that they lose their ability to see fine details. Moreover, they are 16 times more likely than non-smokers to develop sudden loss of vision caused by optic neuropathy, where the blood supply to the eye becomes blocked.
The AOP says stopping or avoiding smoking is one of the best steps you can take to protect your vision, along with having regular sight checks. Aishah Fazlanie, Optometrist and Clinical and Regulatory Adviser for the AOP, said: "People tend to know about the link between smoking and cancer, but many people are not aware of the impact that smoking can have upon the eyes.”
In the UK, 17% of men and 13% of women - around 7.4 million people - are smokers. More than half (61%) of them say they want to quit. In 2017, around 2.8 million people - 5.5% of the UK - were using e-cigarettes, and the most common reason given for this was to help quit smoking.

The concept of Ukraine as a country was born from the state of Kievan Rus, a powerful state that ruled much of the territory that is modern Ukraine during the 9th to 13th centuries. The Ukrainian language evolved from the Old East Slavonic language that was spoken during the time of Kievan Rus. The first documented use of the word Ukraine dates back to 1187, and the Ukrainian people maintained a strong sense of national identity through centuries of foreign rulership and occupation, during which time Ukrainian nationalists made several bids for independence - some successful, but all short-lived.
Modern day Ukraine was established in 1991, when the USSR dissolved and Ukraine declared itself an independent state. It still bears many scars from its time under Soviet rule, when the country endured two of its biggest tragedies: Holomodor, the great famine of 1932-33, which was brought on by Stalin’s agricultural policies and saw the death of an estimated three to five million people; and the Chernobyl Disaster, the explosion of a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl.
Today Ukraine is still struggling to come to terms with a market economy, although consistent economic growth in the new millennium (after a decade of decline in the 1990s) bodes well. Ukraine’s future depends greatly on its traditionally close ties with Russia, which it relies on for energy. However, Russian and Ukrainian relations are not as close as they once were with the Kremlin even shutting off gas supplies in January of 2006.
Partly because of souring relationships with Moscow, Ukraine has been looking West for trading partners and influences. It recently won the hosting rights to Euro 2012 Football Championships in a joint bid with Poland and is hoping to join the EU by 2015.