The top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, is in hot water with the White House for some derogatory comments he made during an interview for a magazine article. The remarks were controversial enough to have him summoned to the W

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Being old is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. (Anonymous) Six months before she died, my grandmother moved into an old people's home and I visited her there when I was in Britain. She was sitting in the living room wi

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英文杂志-Magazine

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 31 May 2008 The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to ban all tobacco advertising. The aim is to protect the world's youth from becoming addicted to a product WHO says could cause one billion premature deaths

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(五月)

Tobacco Tobacco smoke is killing thousands of people every year and injuring hundreds of thousands more every day like children. Federal officials released a massive report that is sparking renewed efforts to ban smoking in public places. Secondhand

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world on May 31 every year. It was started by the World Health Organization in 1987. It aims to highlight the dangers of smoking around the world. Another aim is to encourage people to stop smoking and thus

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语课程学习计划和讲义

DEVELOPMENT REPORT – November 11, 2002: WHO Tobacco Atlas By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has released a new report on smoking tobacco.

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 农业与发展

By Josiah Obat For months, lawmakers in Kenya have been debating a new bill seeking to regulate the consumption, sale, and advertising of tobacco products in the country. The Tobacco Control Bill 2004

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--世界经济

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Delegates from around the world are meeting this week in Uruguay to consider new ways to control tobacco. A World Health Organization treaty called the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control took effect

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

US College Students Using More Marijuana, Less Tobacco Marijuana use among college students is on the rise in the United States. Studies of American college students show that daily marijuana use was more popular than cigarette smoking for the first

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Despite the strictest-ever anti-smoking regulations and newly revised advertising laws, a recent report finds out that a large number of young students in the Chinese capital continue to be exposed to tobacco. The report was released by Beijing Cente

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2016CRI中国国际广播电台

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 February 2008 The World Health Organization is calling for all countries to dramatically increase efforts to prevent premature deaths from tobacco-related illnesses. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Gene

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Carol Pearson Washington 07 May 2008 The World Health Organization expects the number of women who smoke to triple over the next generation, if current trends continue. As a result, it expects more than 200 million women to die from tobacco induce

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(五月)

By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 12 February 2008 The World Health Organization completed its first-ever global report on tobacco control. The grim statistics show that unless governments get more involved, the number of tobacco users will continue to

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

WHO attacks tobacco firms 世界卫生组织指责烟草公司 Thailand has some of the toughest anti-tobacco laws 泰国是拥有最严厉的禁烟法律的国家之一 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has attacked tobacco companies over their ma

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读

HEALTH REPORT - Lung Cancer: Tobacco Is Usually the Cause, but Not Always By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week, a

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

After four years of negotiations, representatives of 135 nations have unanimously agreed on the text of a protocol to end the illicit trade in tobacco products. Nations are expected to adopt the protocol, the first under the WHO Framework Convention

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Related: Guangzhou Bans Tobacco Sales on World No Tobacco Day Today marks the World No Tobacco Day - An event endorsed by the World Health Organization highlighting health risks associated with smoking. This year there are calls for a ban on tobacco

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

BEIJING, May 31 -- China will report its progress on tobacco(香烟) control to the member conference(联盟) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) next year, but many experts say that there is still a lot to be done. China is

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature is considering the country's first national tobacco control law, according to a report released Wednesday. It is quite necessary to enact laws to control the dangers of smoking, says the report adop

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- A senior legislator said China's top legislature is actively preparing to introduce more tobacco-control legislation, after a smoking ban in indoor public places seems ineffective, the People's Daily reported Friday. Chin

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻