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Text 1 Anti-Smoking Role Playing About smoking and health: In 1964，ten members of the Surgeon Generals Advisory Committee, all outstanding physicians and scientists of the United States, evaluated three kinds of scientific evidence: (1) animal experiments, (2) clinical or autopsy studies, (3) population studies to establish the correlation between tobacco smoking and various fatal diseases. Animal experimentation indicated that toxic or irritant gases contained in tobacco smoke produced the kinds of damage seen in the tissues and cells of heavy smokers. Clinical and autopsy studies among smokers also showed that many types of harm to body functions and organs occurred more frequently and severely in smokers. Population researches demonstrated that cigarette smokers had a proportionately higher incidence of lung cancer and other illnesses than nonsmokers, displaying such specific signs and symptoms as chronic cough, breathlessness, and chest tightness. After a careful review of studies and evidences in the area, the committee made the following judgments: Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate preventive and remedial action. In 1962, Italy banned all tobacco advertising. In Finland, in July, 1962, television advertising of cigarettes ended. In February of 1965, the British Labor Government said that it would ban all cigarette advertising from television and was considering a similar ban on newspaper and on poster ads. The United States government approved a health hazard warning which began appearing on all cigarette packages in January 1966. Anti-Smoking Role Playing About 85 percent of the people who smoke wish they could stop, and yet they have to go through the agony of quitting. Read the following text and know more about the hazards of smoking, some valuable precautions against falling into tobacco abuse. In 1988,  HYPERLINK /specls/cls/200073/KECHENX/BOOK3/UNIT8/8Background.htm \l