World Governments Should Conduct Serious Campaigns against Smoking(各國政府應(yīng)當(dāng)厲行禁煙運(yùn)動(dòng))

World Governments Should Conduct Serious Campaigns against Smoking
         If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will accuse you of hypocrisy. Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of wishful thinking. This needn't make you too uncomfortable because you are in good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and health is raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and smell no evil.
      You don't have to look very far to find out why the official reactions to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The answer is simply money. Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It's almost like a tax on our daily bread.
     This is surely the most short-sighted policy you could imagine. While money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other. Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease. Countless valuable lives are lost. In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be much better-off if smoking were banned altogether.
     For a start, governments could begin by banning all cigarette and tobacco advertising and should then conduct antismoking advertising campaigns of their own. Smoking should be banned in all public places like theatres, cinemas and restaurants. Great efforts should be made to inform young people especially of the dire consequences of taking up the habit. A horrific warning--say, a picture of a death's head--should be included in every packet of cigarettes that is sold. As individuals we are certainly weak, but if governments acted honestly and courageously, they could protect us from ourselves.

各國政府應(yīng)當(dāng)厲行禁煙運(yùn)動(dòng)
    如果你吸煙卻又說你不相信吸煙與支氣管疾病、心臟病以及肺癌之間存在著某種必然的聯(lián)系的話，你一定是在自欺欺人。當(dāng)然，沒有人會為此指責(zé)你虛偽。我們只能說，你有一個(gè)愛癡心妄想的毛病。你不必對此太難為情，因?yàn)楹芏嗳硕纪�你一樣。只要提起吸煙與健康的話題，大多數(shù)國家的政府都對其害處視而不見，充耳不聞。
    官方對吸煙有害健康的醫(yī)學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)為何反應(yīng)如此冷淡，此中緣由，不難發(fā)現(xiàn)。答案就是金錢。從稅收的角度來看，香煙是一種絕妙的商品。對香煙征稅簡直就等于對我們每
天所吃的面包征稅一樣。
    這絕對是你可以想見的最目光短淺的政策。政府的一只手急切地征收到大把鈔票，卻被另一只手以日益增長的更大數(shù)額花出去了。  巨額資金被用于研究癌癥和治療癌癥患者。無數(shù)寶貴的生命喪失了。從長遠(yuǎn)看來，如果完全禁止吸煙的話，毫無疑問，每個(gè)人的生活都會大為改善。
    作為禁煙的第一步，政府首先應(yīng)該禁止一切香煙及煙草廣告，然后發(fā)起反對吸煙的宣傳活動(dòng)。在一切公共場所如劇院、電影院、餐廳，吸煙都應(yīng)當(dāng)被禁止。要花大力氣教育青年，尤其讓他們了解染上吸煙這一惡習(xí)的可怕后果。在每一盒售出的香煙盒上都應(yīng)該印上一個(gè)令吸煙者恐懼的警戒標(biāo)志，比如一個(gè)骷髏頭像。作為單個(gè)的人，我們當(dāng)然是弱小的，但是，如果政府的行為誠實(shí)而勇敢，定能保護(hù)我們免受自己的傷害。

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