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. [单项选择]
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. [单项选择]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 person 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 laborers were equally keen. Today only 15% of men in the highest professional classes smoke, but 42% of unskined workers do. Despite punitive taxation—20 cigarettes cost around £ 5.00 ( $10.00), three-quarters of which is tax—55% of single mothers on benefits smoke. The A. Because governments all turned their attention to these people. B. Because these people are more likely to have unhealthy behaviors. C. Because these people suffer more from their poor income and education. D. Because governments always neglect the real needs of these people. 我来回答: 提交
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