"Dimpy", as her friends call her, heard about the hazards of smoking in health class. "They showed pictures of lungs of people who smoked. It was gross," says the petite 14year-old. Yet, as she shops along the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. , the ninth grader points out all the places where she regularly buys cigarettes without hassle. "All my friends smoke," She shrugs, explaining the habit she developed in the sixth grade. "Once they pressure you, you start. And it’s kind of hard to stop. "
As the cigarette industry draws increasing fire, teen smokers like Dimpy are becoming the focus of concerned policy makers around the country. Supported by a University of Michigan study showing a dramatic rise in adolescent tobacco use, the White House is considering ways to curb the surge. Among the options: eliminating cigarette vending machines, restricting tobacco advertising, increasing the federal excise tax on ciga
A. began to smoke when she was eleven
B. became the focus of concerned policymakers because she has been smoking for quite a few years
C. showed pictures of gross lungs of smokers to her fellow pupils
D. forgot the shops where she usually obtained her cigarettes
"Dimpy", as her friends call her, heard about the hazards of smoking in health class. "They showed pictures of lungs of people who smoked. It was gross," says the petite 14year-old. Yet, as she shops along the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. , the ninth grader points out all the places where she regularly buys cigarettes without hassle. "All my friends smoke," She shrugs, explaining the habit she developed in the sixth grade. "Once they pressure you, you start. And it’s kind of hard to stop. "
As the cigarette industry draws increasing fire, teen smokers like Dimpy are becoming the focus of concerned policy makers around the country. Supported by a University of Michigan study showing a dramatic rise in adolescent tobacco use, the White House is considering ways to curb the surge. Among the options: eliminating cigarette vending machines, restricting tobacco advertising, increasing the federal excise tax on ciga
A. the anti-smoking advertisements are not convincing owing to their exaggeration
B. the teenage smokers developed the habit of smoking out of the compulsory pressure from their schoolmates
C. smoking is a relatively low-costing bad habit
D. one can always get cigarettes in pubs when vending machines are removed
"Dimpy," as her friends call her, heard
about the hazards of smoking in health class. "They showed pictures of lungs of
people who smoked. It was gross," says the petite 14-year-old. Yet, as she shops
along the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. , the ninth grader
points out all the places where she regularly buys cigarettes without hassle.
"All my friends smoke," She shrugs, explaining the habit she developed in the
sixth grade. "Once they pressure you, you start. And it’s kind of hard to stop.
" As the cigarette industry draws increasing fire, teen smokers like Dimpy are becoming the focus of concerned policy makers around the country. Supported by a University of Michigan study showing a dramatic rise in adolescent tobacco use, the White House is considering ways to curb the surge. Among the options: eliminating A. the proportion of adolescent tobacco users has dramatically decreased B. many adolescent smokers are successfully persuaded into giving up smoking C. some teenagers develop the habit of smoking rather than taking weed because cigarettes are relatively cheaper D. teenager smokers are quite certain about the effectiveness of the antismoking campaign 我来回答: 提交
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