烟民们要含泪与在夏威夷海滩吹着海风吞云吐雾的梦想say byebye了~~
香烟对人身体的危害是众所周知的,它不但对肺有危害,还会给心脏和其他器官带来影响。
“The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history.” So begins the text of a new bill introduced in Hawaii’s State House, calling for a phased ban on cigarette sales in the state by 2024.
“(美)立法机构发现,香烟被认为是人类历史上最致命的制品。”夏威夷议会提出的一项新法案的开篇语如是说。该法案提议在夏威夷分阶段禁止香烟销售直至2024年。
Via CNN
那么,2024年就可以又能购买香烟了吗?
2024年以后香烟买还是可以买的 ,条件是:你要有本事活到100岁!
via 网络
两党法案的发起人之一、州众议员辛西娅?泰伦(Cynthia Thielen)对《华盛顿邮报》表示,该法案的目标是“让阿洛哈州的人们健康和活着”。
“I know it may be a hard road, but you have to take that first, strong step — and that’s what we’re doing,” she said.
她说:“我知道这可能是一条艰难的道路,但你必须首先迈出有力的一步——这就是我们正在做的。”
Thielen added that Hawaii has been working towards something like this for years, but this bill “hits at the center of it and prohibits smoking in our state.”
泰伦补充说,夏威夷多年来一直致力于此,但这项法案“击中了它的中心,并在我们州禁止吸烟。”
Via People.com
民主党议员理查德?克里根(Richard Creagan)是法案的另一位提案人。
Creagan, who is an emergency room doctor, told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, “Basically, we essentially have a group who are heavily addicted — in my view, enslaved by a ridiculously bad industry — which has enslaved them by designing a cigarette that is highly addictive, knowing that it highly lethal. And, it is.”
克里根是一位急诊医师,在接受《夏威夷先驱论坛报》采访时,他说:“基本上,我们有一群严重上瘾的人——在我看来,他们被一个糟糕得离谱的行业所奴役——那些人明知道它是高致命性的,还制造出这样非常容易上瘾的香烟。”
Via CNN
克里根承认,他以往进行医学研究时曾吸过烟,他表示:“夏威夷州有义务守护大众的健康……如果我们不禁烟,那就等同于在谋杀他人性命。”
In 2015, the National Academy of Sciences released a report that argued increasing the age to buy tobacco to 21 would have a “considerable impact” on the age at which someone takes their first puff. The report also suggested “if someone is not a regular tobacco user by age 25, it is highly unlikely he or she will become one.”
2015年,**国家科学院发布了一份报告,认为将购买烟草的年龄提高到21岁将对人们吸第一口烟的年龄产生“相当大的影响”。该报告还建议,“如果一个人在25岁之前不是一个经常吸烟的人,那么他/她成为烟草用户的可能性极小。”
Via CNN
克雷根说他有信心该法案能够经受住任何挑战,唯一的问题是要给州政府足够的时间找到调整烟税收入损失的办法。
文:A君
资料:CNN, people.com
图:网络
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