If you smoke, you’d better hurry. From
July 1st pubs all over England will, by law, be no-smoking areas. So will
restaurants, offices and even company cars, if more than one per-son uses them.
England’s smokers are following a well-trodden path. The other three bits of the
United Kingdom have already banned smoking in almost all enclosed public spaces,
and there are anti-smoking laws of varying strictness over most of Western
Europe. The smoker’ s journey from glamour through toleration to suspicion is
finally reaching its end in pariah status. But behind this public-health success story lies a darker tale. Poorer people are much more likely to smoke than richer ones—a change from the 1950s, when professionals and la-borers were equally keen. Today only 15% of men in the highest professional classes smoke, but 42% of unskilled worker A. prohibition. B. strictness. C. pardon. D. punishment. 我来回答: 提交
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