Dont Mind if I Smoke
The French surprised even themselves when they banned tobacco ads three years ago, and created smoke-free zones in public spaces. Even then, ___(1)___ seemed a little too American. Now some French lawmakers are preparing to end the act as reform that simply cant work in a country __(2)___.
Law or no law, smokers and nonsmokers mingle __(3)__, whose owners generally ignore requirements to create separate no-smoking sections. French smokers __(4)___, in hospitals and directly under no -smoking -signs. There are stiff fines for violating the smoke-free areas, but they are never imposed. "We have more important things to do", says a Paris official.
The 1992 laws most controversial provision is the tobacco-ad ban. An exception has been made for motor sports, which are underwritten by tobacco firms. And fans shouted angrily when French TV blacked out a soccer game from abroad because of "secondary" tobacco and liquor ads at the local stadium. Still, those __(5)___ credit the ad ban for a -15 percent drop in smoking among French teens in the last three years.
EXERCISE:
A) without apparent friction in Paris café and restaurants
B) light up in train stations
C) doing great harm to the smokers health
D) the attempt to legislate good healthhttp://ks.examda.com
E) who are against smoking
F) that has always aided lifes petty vices
KEY:D F A B E-