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The study deals with the language used in classified ads on online auction websites. Based on a corpus compiled from Czech online advertising websites during autumn 2016 it describes both extrinsic and intrinsic textual criteria of this discourse in order to create a wholesome linguistic picture of the text type classified ad; furthermore, it compares the results with a similar study based on German classified ads (IMO 2012). The classifieds predominantly feature selling second-hand goods. So the study does not in...

Introduction: Tobacco smoke and second-hand smoking exposure, at home or in school during childhood and adolescence, increases the risk of respiratory illness. Youth smoking is mostly associated with parents, and their smoking behavior. Also, there are other influences: social environment, targeted advertising, easy access to cigarette products, no control over age limit in purchasing cigarettes, lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking. Material and method: To evaluate the influence of the environment, soci...