本文老師給大家推薦一篇2015年7月11日的《經濟學人》的時文。主題是關于“國家應當如何說服人們戒煙” how people can be persuaded to stop smoking. 這是一個科學所解決不了的健康問題。what countries need to do to get people to quit. 但是作者認為國家對此需要采取什么措施是非常明確的。下面我們就來一起看一下“如何戒煙”?How to stub it out?
【原文】Banning smoking would be wrong. But discouraging smoking is entirely legitimate: smokers pollute the air other people breathe, they damage their families when they die prematurely, and the addictive nature of the habit weakens the argument that smoking is a freely chosen pleasure
【原文】The idea of developing countries leapfrogging rich ones is familiar in technology, but it can apply to social policy, too. Over the past half-century, the rich world has learned slow and painful lessons about how to persuade people not to take up smoking, or to quit it if they already have. Low and middle-income countries can adopt those measures before their citizens get addicted.
其一:Bans on smoking in public places can have immediate benefits.
公共場所禁煙將會迅速產生效果。
其二:electronic cigarettes can help: 7% of British quitters use them.
電子煙也有幫助,7%的英國戒煙者在使用。
其三:Gruesome public-information campaigns can help.
恐怖的公共信息戰也有作用。
例如:美國的“來自戒煙者的小建議”運動,通過展示因吸煙相關疾病致殘的人,說服了大約100000人戒煙。America’s “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, which showed people crippled by smoking-related diseases, persuaded around 100,000 people to quit. 哥斯達黎加和菲律賓給決心戒煙者發送了包含戒煙小建議的短信。Costa Rica and the Philippines send aspiring quitters text messages with handy tips on giving up.