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If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link between

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问题    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. Admittedly, a few governments have taken timid measures.
   In Britain for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on television. It ought to be a disaster for big tobacco. Governments started banning cigarette advertising on television in the 1960s, and though the marketing rope is still loose in much of the world it is tightening. Many governments ban ads in print media and oblige manufacturers to display packs with gruesome warnings. The pack itself survives as a badge of a smoker’s taste and means, displayed and pocketed 20 or 30 times a day. Lighter colors hint at relative healthiness. Tall thin packs seem more feminine. In the war on tobacco marketing, packaging is "the last major frontier", says David Hammond of the University of Waterloo in Canada. "That’s why we’re seeing such strong opposition." The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the population continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.
   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.
   In tax revenue alone, the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may, be conceivable, be harmful, it doesn’t do to shout too loudly about it.
   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.
   Of course, we are not ready for such a drastic action. But if the governments of the world were honestly concerned about the welfare of their peoples, you’d think they’d conduct aggressive anti-smoking campaigns. Far from it! The tobacco industry is allowed to spend staggering sums on advertising.
   Its advertising is as insidious as it is dishonest. We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lungs early in the morning. That would never do. The advertisement always depicts virile, cleanshaven young men. They suggest it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy!
   Smoking is associated with the great open-air life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherness. What utter nonsense!
   For a start, governments could begin by banning all cigarette and tobacco advertising and should then conduct anti-smoking 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 harm. [br] What does the sentence "because you are in good company" in Para. 2 mean?
选项 A、You are backed by the government.
B、You are not alone.
C、You have good colleagues.
D、Governments are blind to evils of smoking too.
答案 D
解析 句子“因为你有好伙伴”是何意?选项A政府支持，太明朗化。选项B你不是单独一人，以及选项C你有好同事，都是似是而非的答案。这要结合上下文说明，第一段：“假如你吸烟，依然认为吸烟和支气管炎、心脏病、肺癌等毫无关系，那你是自欺欺人。可没有人会说你虚伪。我们可以说你患有一厢情愿病。你无须太难受，因为你有好伙伴。每当提出与吸烟和健康有关的问题时，大多数国家的政府对其恶果听而不闻、视而不见、嗅而不觉。”政府是吸烟者的同谋，所以说政府是他们的好伙伴。可见答案是D，政府对吸烟的恶果也是视而不见。
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