问答题 世界无烟日

有人作过这样的预言：如果地球上有一天断了烟，天下可能会大乱。此话可能是危言耸听，但是烟害的严重性是不能低估的。
抽烟之危害，可谓大矣，而且是全球性的。目前全球约有13亿烟民，其中的6.5亿人会因吸烟早逝。在中国，抽烟者多达亿万。瘾君子们说，一天饭不吃可以，一个时辰不抽烟就难捱了。吸烟污染空气，损害健康，使肺癌发病率大大增加。
为了使世界各国人民关注烟草的盛行及预防吸烟导致的疾病和死亡，世界卫生组织成员国在1987创立了“世界无烟日”。现在，每年的5月31日被定为“世界无烟日”。吸烟有害已家喻户晓，禁止吸烟的公共场所也日益增多。社会舆论长时期开展的有针对性的宣传，以及随之而创造的一些有效的戒烟方法的推广，产生了积极效果，不少人向香烟吻别。瘾君子从戒烟中吃尽了苦头，也尝到甜头。戒烟贵在坚持，坚持下去就是收获。
但是，戒烟者终究还是少数，主要是中年以上、患疾病的人和知识分子。最令人担忧的是青年人吸烟，染上抽烟坏习惯的青年人日益增多。有关统计表明，全球13岁至15岁年龄段少年的吸烟率已达20%。
烟瘾难戒，但并非不能戒。如果占全球三分之一的我国烟民能够在今天——世界无烟日——开始抵挡住香烟的诱惑，为了自己的健康和周围亲朋好友的健康一天不吸烟，乃至尽早戒烟，那将会创造出不可估量的效益!

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【答案解析】World No Tobacco Day

Someone has prophesied that once tobacco disappears from the earth the whole world is likely to be in great disorder. This might be an exaggeration, but the danger of smoking cannot be under-estimated.
Smoking is a curse which affects the whole globe. Currently, there are 1.3 billion smokers cross the world, among whom 6.5 million would die earlier due to smoking. China alone has hundreds of millions of smokers. Addicted smokers say that they can do without food for a day but cannot endure the suffering for two hours without smoking a cigarette. Smoking pollutes the air and damages the health, consequently increasing the incidence of lung cancer substantially.
The member states of the World Health Organization created a World No Smoking Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the prevention of diseases and death it causes. Now May 31 of each year is known as the World No Tobacco Day. The harm of smoking has been proverbial, and the number of no- smoking public places are on the increase. The pertinent publicity afforded by public opinion over a long time and the popularization of effective ways of giving up smoking have produced such positive and desirable results that many addicts have kissed tobacco good-bye. They have, after suffering a lot in the process of quitting smoking, been amply rewarded by the resultant benefit. The key to quitting smoking altogether lies in perseverance, which is the surest road to success.
It is to be admitted, however, that only a small number of addicts have made a clean break, mainly among middle-aged and older disease-ridden people and intellectuals. What causes real concern is the fact that an increasing number of young people have developed a smoking habit. According to certain statistics, 20 percent of youngsters of 13 to 15 years old worldwide are now smokers.
It is difficult but not impossible to quit smoking. Beginning from today—the World No Tobacco Day, if smokers in our country, who account for one-third of the world"s smokers, can resist the temptation of tobacco to leave off smoking for one day and manage to give up smoking as early as possible for their own health and for the health of their relatives and friends, then immeasurable benefits will be created!