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个人文档：欢迎来到我的豆丁文档，请在阅读后给予评价！谢谢！感谢您对我的支持，欢迎下次再来学习！ 祝您身体健康，生活愉快！From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。Cigarette smoking kills. That we know. So, manufacturers made electronic cigarettes as a safer smoking choice - safer than tobacco.吸烟能致命，我们都知道这一点。所以厂家生产了电子香烟来作为安全的吸烟选择，比香烟要安全。E-cigarettes contain the drug nicotine like cigarettes.But they do not use tobacco. And you do not light them. They are powered by battery.电子香烟和香烟一样含有尼古丁药物，但电子烟不用烟草，不用点燃它，电子烟是靠电池驱动的。So, if e-cigarettes are so safe, why have poison control centers around the United States seen an increase in telephone calls about e-cigarette poisonings?那么，如果电子香烟是安全的，那么为何美国各地的毒品控制中心收到越来越多的有关电子香烟中毒的电话呢？The answer is children.答案是孩子们。Most of the calls are from people worried about children who have played with the devices.大多数电话是那些担心孩子玩电子香烟设备的家长打的，In the period of one month this year, the United States Centers for Disease Control say 215 people called the Center with e-cigarette concerns.美国疾病控制中心称今年一个月内就有215人打给中心表示担忧电子香烟。More than half of these calls were for children ages five and younger. The devices apparently had made them sick.其中一半以上的电话是为五岁及以下儿童而打，这些设备显然能让孩子们致病。Tim McAfee is director of the CDCs Office on Smoking and Health. He says the problem is regulation.蒂姆·迈克菲是疾病控制中心的香烟与健康办公室主任，他说问题出在监管上。Meaning, the U.S. federal government does not control e-cigarettes even though they contain liquid nicotine.这意味着美国联邦政府未能控制电子香烟，即使它们含有液态尼古丁。Mr. McAfee adds that liquid nicotine is a well-known danger.迈克菲说液态尼古丁是众所周知的危险。Nicotine historically has been used as a pesticide in the United States.“历史上美国一直用尼古丁作为杀虫剂，And thats where we have really had for many, many decades significant poisonings when people got exposed to nicotine that was in liquid solutions.因此在几十年来当人们接触液态尼古丁时就会发生严重的中毒。”Mr. McAfee explains that nicotine poisoning happens when the substance gets into the skin, gets into the eyes or is swallowed.迈克菲解释说当这种物质进入皮肤、眼睛或被吸食后就会发生中毒，Even a small amount, he says, can make a person sick.他说即使是很