世界政府應該組織抵抗吸菸 World Governments Should Conduct Se

       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.
標題：世界各國政府應進行認真
內容：世界各國政府應進行認真反對吸菸運動，如果你吸菸，你還是不相信有一個吸菸與支氣管麻煩，心臟病和肺癌一定的關係，那麼你肯定自欺欺人。沒有人會指責你虛僞。且讓我們說你是從一廂情願似的痛苦。這使你不必太不舒服，因爲你在好公司的。每當吸菸與健康的議題是提高，大多數國家的政府不聽惡，看不出有什麼惡臭味無惡不作。你沒有看得很遠，看看爲什麼官方的反應，醫學研究已如此冷淡。答案很簡單的錢。菸草是一個美妙的商品稅。這幾乎就像我們每天的麪包稅。這肯定是最短視的政策，你可以想象。雖然錢是踊躍巨資收集了一方面，它是在日益一片更浩瀚的支付款項與其他內。巨大的金額用於癌症研究和治療工作的人患有這種疾病的。無數寶貴的生命都將丟失。從長遠來看，毫無疑問，大家會更好過，如果被完全禁止吸菸。首先，政府可以首先禁止所有香菸和菸草廣告，便應該對他們自己的反吸菸宣傳活動。應當禁止吸菸如劇院，電影院和餐館，所有公共場所。大應作出努力，通知特別是採取了習慣的嚴重後果的年輕人。一個可怕的警告 - 比如說，一個死亡的頭像 - 應該是每售出一包香菸內。作爲個人，我們當然是軟弱的，但如果政府的行爲是誠實，勇敢，他們可以保護我們自己。
各國政府應當厲行禁菸運動如果你吸菸卻又說你不相信吸菸與支氣管疾病，心臟病以及肺癌之間存在着某種必然的聯繫的話，你一定是在自欺欺人。當然，沒有人會爲此指責你虛僞。我們只能說，你有一個愛癡心妄想的毛病。你不必對此太難爲情，因爲很多人都同你一樣。只要提起吸菸與健康的話題，大多數國家的政府都對其害處視而不見，充耳不聞。官方對吸菸有害健康的醫學發現爲何反應如此冷淡，此中緣由，不難發現。答案就是金錢。從稅收的角度來看，香菸是一種絕妙的商品。對香菸徵稅簡直就等於對我們每天所吃的麪包徵稅一樣。這絕對是你可以想見的最目光短淺的政策。政府的一隻手急切地徵收到大把鈔票，卻被另一隻手以日益增長的更大數額花出去了。鉅額資金被用於研究癌症和治療癌症患者。無數寶貴的生命喪失了。從長遠看來，如果完全禁止吸菸的話，毫無疑問，每個人的生活都會大爲改善。作爲禁菸的第一步，政府首先應該禁止一切香菸及菸草廣告，然後發起反對吸菸的宣傳活動。在一切公共場所如劇院，電影院，餐廳，吸菸都應當被禁止。要花大力氣教育青年，尤其讓他們瞭解染上吸菸這一惡習的可怕後果。在每一盒售出的香菸盒上都應該印上一個令吸菸者恐懼的警戒標誌，比如一個骷髏頭像。作爲單個的人，我們當然是弱小的，但是，如果政府的行爲誠實而勇敢，定能保護我們免受自己的傷害。