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If you’ve gotten used to smoke-free bars, here’s a new concept to wrap your mind around: smoke-free cigar lounges. This innovati
If you’ve gotten used to smoke-free bars, here’s a new concept to wrap your mind around: smoke-free cigar lounges. This innovati
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2015-09-30
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问题
If you’ve gotten used to smoke-free bars, here’s a new concept to wrap your mind around: smoke-free cigar lounges. This innovation comes to us by courtesy of Washington state’s voters, who recently approved an initiative that bans smoking in nearly every indoor location except for private residences.
The ban makes no exception for businesses whose raison d’etre is tobacco consumption, even if they have ventilation systems that whisk smoke away as soon as it’s produced. By forbidding smoking within 25 feet of entrances and windows, it even threatens to eliminate sidewalk smoking sections and quick outdoor cigarette breaks.
As these provisions suggest, the real motivation behind government-imposed smoking bans is not to shield customers and employees from secondhand smoke, although that rationale is popular with the general public. For the activists and government officials who push the bans, the main point is to discourage smoking by making it inconvenient and socially unacceptable, transforming it into a shameful vice practiced only in privacy and isolation.
That doesn’t mean everyone who voted for the Washington ban, which will be the most restrictive state law of its kind in the country when it takes effect on December 8, is eager to save smokers from themselves. By and large, I’m sure, the ban’s supporters simply wanted to avoid tobacco smoke without having to make any sacrifices.
For example, they did not want to have to choose between tolerating smoke and passing over otherwise appealing bars and restaurants that allow smoking. Instead they decided to force the owners of those establishments to change their policies by threatening to fine them and take away the licenses on which their livelihoods depend.
Mow much courage does it take, in a state where nonsmokers outnumber smokers by four to one, to declare that the minority’s desires should count for nothing, even when business owners want to accommodate them? How admirable is it, in a state where 80 percent of restaurants already are smoke free, to insist that the rest follow suit?
The employee protection excuse does not make this demand any more reasonable. As a nonsmoking Seattle bartender told The Seattle Times, "You know what you’re getting into when you work in a bar. If I had a problem with smoke, I’d get another job. "
Secondhand smoke is, in any case, not the main concern of those who promote smoking bans in the name of "public health". Laws like Washington’s are "one of the most effective ways to provide the strong incentive often needed to get smokers to quit", according to John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health.
It is obvious that smoking bans are imposed to______.
选项
A、get smokers to quit in all the public places
B、guarantee nonsmokers a clean environment
C、protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke
D、satisfy the eager demand of the general public
答案
A
解析
根据第三段最后一句“For the activists and government officials who push the bans,the main point is…transforming it into a shameful vice practiced only in privacy and isolation”,A应为答案。
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考研英语一
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