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标题: 天天商务英语：Recession could help smokers quit [打印本页]

作者: yoyo530521 时间: 2009-2-5 10:32 标题: 天天商务英语：Recession could help smokers quit

天天商务英语词汇

think tank (noun) 智库
解释	a group of experts who give advice on political or economic problems

例句	More than one think-tank is against expanding Heathrow airport.

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Recession could help smokers quit
萧条也许能帮助吸烟者戒烟

You might think the stress of a bad economy would lead more people to smoke, but historically financial downturns have made people smoke less. Dan Grech reports why the recession encourages smoking cessation.
你也许会认为糟糕的经济环境会导致更多的人吸烟，不过历史上的经济衰退却是让吸烟的人变少了。为什么萧条会促成一些人停止吸烟呢，Dan Grech做了报道。

Renita Jablonski: Philip Morris International releases earnings this morning. Yesterday the company teamed up with a Swedish manufacturer to market smokeless tobacco products. Philip Morris is worried cigarette sales could go up in smoke during this downturn. Marketplace's Dan Grech has more.
Dan Grech: You might think the stress of a bad economy would lead more people to smoke. But that's not been the case.
Stanton Glantz: Historically in bad economic times people actually smoke less.
That's Stanton Glantz. He's a professor of medicine with the University of California San Francisco.
During the Great Depression, smoking in the U.S. dropped by 20 percent. Glantz says we'll likely see a similar drop during the current recession.
Glantz: People have less money to throw around, and the price keeps going up, and they want to quit anyway. All of those factors are going to pile up and help people quit smoking.
The economic stimulus bill going through the Senate initially included $75 million for smoking cessation programs. But Republicans criticized the funding, and it was stripped out earlier this week.
Glantz says studies have show that anti-smoking programs quickly pay for themselves through lower health care costs.

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