The chances are that you made up your
mind about smoking a long time ago—and decided it's not for you.
The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers—there are,
after all about 60 million of them, work with them, and get along with them very
well. And finally it's a pretty safe bet that you're
open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and
nonsmokers—or you wouldn't be reading this. And those three
things make {{B}}you{{/B}} incredibly important today. Because they
mean that yours is the voice—not the smoker's and not the anti-smoker's—that
will determine how much of society's efforts should go into building walls that
separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us
together. For one tragic result of the emphasis on building
walls is the diversion of millions of dollars from scientific research on the
causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, still strike the
nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent health organization, to cite but
a single instance, now spends 28 cents of every publicly contributed dollar on
"education" (much of it in anti-smoking propaganda) and only 2 cents on
research. There will always be some who want to build walls,
who want to separate people from people, and up to a point, even these may serve
society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, to give them their due, helped to
make us all more keenly aware of choice. But our guess, and
certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greatest number who know that
walls are only temporary at best, and that over the long run, we can serve
society's interest better by working together in mutual accommodation.
Whatever virtue walls may have, they can never move our society toward
fundamental solutions. People who work together on common problems, common
solutions, can.
单选题
What does the word "wall" used in the passage mean?
A. Anti-smoking propaganda.
B. Diseases striking nonsmokers as well as smokers.