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More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants, saying they want to increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living. The policies reflect a frustration that softer efforts - like banning smoking on company grounds, offering cessation programs and increasing health care premiums for smokers - have not been powerful-enough incentives to quit. 这种规定反映出某种失败- 禁止吸烟者不在工作场所吸烟，实施禁烟活动，增加吸烟者的医疗保健费用，这些软措施已经不能强有力地激励人们戒烟了。 The new rules essentially treat cigarettes as an illegal narcotic. Applications now explicitly warn of “tobacco-free hiring，” job seekers must submit to urine tests for nicotine and new employees caught smoking face termination. 新的规定从根本上认为香烟是一种非法的麻醉品，雇佣合同公开警告“吸烟者禁用”，求职者必须提交尿检报告，新雇佣的员工一旦被发现吸烟将面临解雇。 This shift — from smoke-free to smoker-free workplaces — has prompted sharp debate, even among anti-tobacco groups, over whether the policies establish a troubling precedent of employers intruding into private lives to ban a habit that is legal. 这种转变 ——在职场禁止吸烟转变为禁用吸烟者——引起了激烈的争论，甚至在反对吸烟的人群中，人们在争论这些规定是否提供了一个令人不安的先例：雇主侵犯人们的私生活，禁止人们合法的行为习惯。 “If enough of these companies adopt theses policies and it really becomes difficult for smokers to find jobs, there are going to be consequences,” said Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, who has written about the trend. “Unemployment is also bad for health.” 1.enough of= a number of 2. “Unemployment is also bad for health.” 失业也有害于健康 “如果有更多的公司采取这些规定，那么吸烟者找工作真地就会变得更加困难，由此会导致某些后果。”波斯顿大学公共卫生学院教授，迈克西格尔博士，谈到，他曾写过有关这种趋势（转变）的文章 。他还说，“失业也有害于健康”。 1. a surge of interest: 一股热情 a surge of anger, pity，一阵怒气，怜悯。 2. health care providers：医疗保健服务人员 Smokers have been turned away from jobs in the past — prompting more than half the states to pass laws rejecting bans on smokers — but the recent growth in the number of companies adopting no-smoker rules has been dr