[单项选择]A new international study shows that six people die every minute from smoking. That equals 3 million deaths around the world every year. If the present rate (率)of smoking continues, the number of deaths each year from smoking could rise to 10 million by the year 2020.
The study describes smoking as the biggest cause to deadly diseases among grown-ups in industrial countries. So far most of the smoking deaths have happened on men, especially in developing countries.
A researcher at the World Health Organization says 70% of Chinese men smoke more than 15 cigarettes each day. In Latin America about 50% of the men are smokers. There also is a very large number of smokers in the former Soviet Union(苏联)and in the east Europe. And 25% of all smoking deaths worldwide are in those areas of the world. Scientists say smoking will kill 50% of the countries.
Smoking is known to cause lung cancer. It also can lead to cancer of the mouth and other parts of bodies. Smokers are more like
A. Smoking is the biggest cause to deadly diseases among grown-ups.
B. The writer’s main purpose of writing this story is to arouse(引起)smoker’s interest, fear and notice.
C. From this passage, we can clearly conclude that the number of smokers in east Europe is much bigger than that in Latin America.
D. About one half of the Latin American men are non-smokers.