【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] 19-22
M: Yael, what's that in your hand?
W: Come on, Don. Haven't you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States, about 1,500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share?
M: But Yael, don't you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine?
W: Yeah, but that's why I smoke a brand with low nicotine and tar content.
M: Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking—smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one. In fact, research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels &nicotine.
W: I didn't know that.
M: The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketing. While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool, tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women. For example, ads will say that you've come a long way, or that you've tbund your voice, or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self expression. Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction, disease, and premature death seem so remote to them. And the thing is, people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting.
W: So, Don, can you pass me that ashtray?
M: With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out.

19. What are the speakers talking about?

主旨题。男士先提到每年有大量的女性由于吸烟而死亡，然后又指出女性选择的低焦油含量的烟草和普通烟草一样有害，接下来又提到烟草商为了吸引人们购买而采用的广告策略，由此可知，对话是关于女性吸烟的内容，所以D正确。