减少烟草(1)【沪江慢速VOA080227】

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WHO Sees Tobacco Risk to a Billion Lives This Century(1/2)

The World Health Organization is urging countries to follow six policies to prevent millions of tobacco-related deaths. The six policies are known as MPOWER, spelled M-P-O-W-E-R.

The M is for monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies. The P is for protecting people by establishing smoke-free areas. O stands for offering services to help people stop smoking. W is for warning people about the dangers of tobacco. E is for enforcing bans on tobacco advertising and other forms of marketing. And R is for raising taxes on tobacco.

The W.H.O. says in a major new report that raising taxes is the single most effective way to reduce tobacco use. A study found that governments now collect an average of five hundred times more money in tobacco taxes each year than they spend on control efforts.

The W.H.O. says tobacco now causes more than five million deaths a year. It predicts this number will rise to more than eight million by the year two thousand thirty. By the end of the century, it says, tobacco could kill one billion people -- ten times as many as in the twentieth century.

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世界卫生组织迫切要求各个国家遵循6项措施，来防止数百万与烟草有关疾病而引起的死亡。这六项政策被人们称为“一揽子六项方针”（MPOWER）。

M代表监测烟草的使用和预防政策。P是指建造无烟环境来保护人们的健康。O代表提供服务以帮助人们戒烟.W是警示人们烟草的危害性。E是加强对烟草广告和其他形式行销的禁令。R是指提高烟草税。

世界卫生组织在报告中称，提高烟草税是减少烟草使用最有效的方法。一项研究表明政府现在每年对烟草征收的税款是他们在控制成效上花费的500倍以上。

世界卫生组织说目前由烟草引起的疾病死亡人数一年内就有500多万人。该组织预计这个数字将会在2030年上升到800万。它还说，在本世纪末，烟草会使10亿人死亡，这个数字是20世纪的10倍。