首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Many will doubt tobacco industry claims that it is sharpening its science to evaluate "healthier cigarettes". But that’s what wi
Many will doubt tobacco industry claims that it is sharpening its science to evaluate "healthier cigarettes". But that’s what wi
admin
2017-04-13
88
问题
Many will doubt tobacco industry claims that it is sharpening its science to evaluate "healthier cigarettes". But that’s what will happen if the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA)gets the job of regulating the industry, as a Senate vote on the issue was expected to decide this week. Then the health agency will be placed in the bizarre situation of deciding whether to approve new versions of products that have killed millions.
Radicals will argue that the only way of preventing tobacco-related death and disease is to ban cigarettes, not encourage more tobacco products onto the market—even if they might be safer. However, a ban is unlikely, and so helping people to quit, dissuading teens from smoking in the first place and helping people avoid second-hand smoke should remain at the heart of health policies. Such measures have already cut the number of US smokers from around 50 per cent of the population in the 1960s to around 20 per cent today—but this is still well short of the US government’s target of 12 per cent by 2010.
Abstinence cannot be the only policy, however. Pragmatists will see the sense of safer cigarettes. There is a hard core of people who cannot or will not give up, and safer cigarettes could also help in poorer parts of the world, where more and more people are taking up smoking: the World Health Organization predicts that by 2030 more than 80 per cent of tobacco-related deaths will be in low to middle-income countries.
We need to find new ways of cutting the risks of tobacco. Nicotine replacements are one solution; reduced-harm products like modified cigarettes might be another. Without robust science to back up the claims of safety, however, they could make things worse, as has happened before. The marketing of "light", "ultra-light" and "low-tar" cigarettes led many smokers to believe that these were healthier alternatives to stronger brands, yet we now know that they cause just as much cancer. The tobacco industry has a poor history of transparency when it comes to research.
Tobacco companies are now developing biomarkers to assess risk more accurately. They should be applauded, but only if they are prepared to subject their research to tough examination. FDA regulation may force them to do this. It should also make the labeling of cigarettes even clearer, so that consumers understand the relative risks. Only good science can cut through the smokescreen that for decades has obscured the hazards of cigarettes.
It is important for FDA to regulate the tobacco industry in that
选项
A、it will impose tough examination on the tobacco industry in the US.
B、it has stronger scientific methods to boost America’s tobacco industry.
C、it can evaluate the risks in the tobacco industry more accurately.
D、it will introduce policies to ban smoking in the public places in the US.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。根据FDA定位到最后一段,该段讲到烟草业研制安全型香烟必须subject to toughexamination,并且FDA可能会迫使他们这样做,所以A项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Z9bZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
WholesalepricesinJulyrosemoresharplythanexpectedandatafasterratethanconsumerprices,【C1】______thatbusinesseswer
WholesalepricesinJulyrosemoresharplythanexpectedandatafasterratethanconsumerprices,【C1】______thatbusinesseswer
Throughoutthislong,tenseelection,everyonehasfocusedonthepresidentialcandidatesandhowthey’llchangeAmerica.Rightl
Olderpeoplemustbegivenmorechancestolearniftheyaretocontributetosocietyratherthanbeafinancialburden,accordi
Ifyouknowexactlywhatyouwant,thebestroutetoajobistogetspecializedtraining.Arecentsurveyshowsthatcompaniesl
[A]Analyzingyourowntaste[B]Beingcautiouswhenexperimenting[C]Findingamodeltofollow[D]Gettingthefinallookabsolute
Theproblemwithhuman-resourcemanagersisthattheyarehuman.Theyhavebiases;theymakemistakes.Butwithbettertools,th
InanewstudyreleasedbyPew,researchersfindthatwhileMillennials—peoplewhowerebornafter1981—arebacktothepre-rece
WhenPrinceGeorge’sCountyState’sAttorneyAngelaD.Alsobrooksjoinedthecountyprosecutor’sofficein1997,shewasthefi
随机试题
Researchshowsthatbyusingcomputers,studentsbecomebetterproblemsolversandbettercommunicators.Overanetwork,using【1
A.丙酮酸激酶B.丙酮酸羧化酶C.糖原磷酸化酶D.糖原合酶糖酵解的关键酶是
甲向乙借款10万元,以其卡车抵押并办理了抵押登记。后因发生交通事故,甲将该卡车送到丙修理厂修理。修理完毕,甲因无法支付1万元的维修费,该卡车被甲修理厂留置。后甲欠乙的借款到期,乙要求对该卡车行驶抵押权,丙修理厂以甲欠修理费为由拒绝,双方发生争议。根据合同法
由于生产力和生产关系,经济基础和上层建筑还存在一系列的矛盾,因此,我国必须进行社会主义改革。当前我国进行的社会主义改革的性质是()。
根据以下资料,回答106-110题。某地区2009年电子信息产品制造业、汽车制造业、石油化工及精细化工制造业、精品钢材制造业、成套设备制造业、生物医药制造业六个重点发展工业行业完成工业总产值15346.24亿元,比上年增长7.3%,占整个地区规模以
奇跡
昨夜徹夜したので、________。
FindtheinterestonUS$65,000for14daysat3percentperannum.______
(1)Saintsshouldalwaysbejudgedguiltyuntiltheyareprovedinnocent,buttheteststhathavetobeappliedtothemarenot,
Britainhasannouncedthatitistocancelabout200millionpounds’worthofdebts【D1】______itbypoorerCommonwealthcountrie
最新回复
(
0
)