A Day without a Smoke|没有菸的一天

A Day without a Smoke

by William Ryan

There's no better day than today to stop smoking.

　　Have you ever heard of World No Tobacco Day? In an effort to raise people's awareness of the dangers of tobacco and to promote abstinence from it, World No Tobacco Day was established in 1987. _(1)_ However, that name was soon changed to World No Tobacco Day and the date to May 31. _(2)_

　　Organized by consumer groups, non-governmental agencies, and governments, various activities like public marches, tobacco education programs, and campaigns to expand smoking bans in certain places are conducted. Each year a powerful theme is chosen for World No Tobacco Day. _(3)_ This annual campaign also uses graphic images as attention-getting symbols, which are made into posters, posted on Internet sites, displayed on clothing and vehicles, and painted in murals. _(4)_

　　Although World No Tobacco Day is not a public holiday in any country, governments can do much to educate citizens and encourage people to quit smoking. _(5)_

(A) Past themes include Tobacco-Free Youth, Second-Hand Smoke Kills, Leave the Pack Behind,Media and To bacco: Get the Message Across, and Tobacco Costs More Than You Think.

(B) Smoking indoors has been banned in many parts of the world.

(C) The United Nations' global health agency could have chosen any day for its observance, but the date of its own anniversary seemed appropriate.

(D) Some examples of these symbols are clean ashtrays filled with flowers, images of diseases caused by tobacco use, and symbols of death like gravestones and skulls with cigarettes.

(E) In that year, the World Health Organization chose the date of its 40th anniversary, April 7,1988, as the first World No Smoking Day.

(F) In Taiwan, recent data presented by the National Health Insurance Agency indicates that smoking-related diseases are taking a staggering toll on the nation's physical and fiscal health.

 

没有菸的一天

没有其他日子比今天更适合戒菸了。

　　你曾经听过世界无菸日吗？为了要提升人们对抽菸危险的认知以及推广戒菸，世界无菸日在 1987 年创立。在那一年，世界卫生组织选定了该组织成立四十周年的纪念日，也就是 1988 年的四月七日作为第一届世界无菸日（World No Smoking Day）。然而，该名称不久就改为 World No Tobacco Day，而日期也改为五月三十一日。联合国的全球卫生机构可以选定任何一天来庆祝，但选择该组织本身的周年纪念日似乎很恰当。

　　由消费者团体、非政府机构及政府机关所组织的各种活动，象是公开游行、菸草教育节目以及推广禁菸的活动在某些地方展开。每一年的世界无菸日都会选定一个有力的主题。过去的主题包括了『无菸青年』、『致命二手菸』、『把菸抛到脑后』、『媒体与菸害防制：把讯息传出去』和『菸害超乎你的想象』等。这项一年一度的活动也使用了图像作为引人注目的象征，而这些图像会做成海报、张贴在网站上、展示在服饰或车辆上以及画在墙壁上。这些象征的例子有装满花的干净菸灰缸、抽菸会导致疾病的图像以及象是墓碑和插了香菸的头盖骨等死亡象征。

　　虽然世界无菸日在任何国家都不是国定假日，但各国政府可以做很多事来教育人民并鼓励他们戒菸。在台湾，最近有一份由健保局所提出的资料显示，和抽菸有关的疾病对全国人民身体健康及财政方面的健全都有极大的危害。

答案： 1. E 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. F