世界无烟日：全球每年300万人因吸烟过早死亡_BEC初级作文

世界无烟日：全球每年300万人因吸烟过早死亡

世卫组织非传染性疾病预防司司长道格拉斯•贝彻在资讯发布会上说：“全球吸烟率已从2000年的27%下降到2016年的20%，我们已经取得了进步。”

Launching the WHO's global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco smoking, he said that industrialized countries are making faster progress than developing countries.

他在发布世卫组织全球吸烟率趋势报告时说，工业化国家比发展中国家控烟进步更快。

"One of the major factors impeding low- and middle-income countries certainly is countries face resistance by a tobacco industry who wishes to replace clients who die by freely marketing their products and keeping prices affordable for young people," he added.

他补充说：“阻碍中低收入国家控烟的一大因素当然是来自烟草行业的阻力，这些国家的烟草行业希望自由销售他们的产品，而且让年轻人买得起，来实现消费者的更替。”

Progress in kicking the habit is uneven, with the Americas the only region set to meet the target of a 30 percent reduction in tobacco use by 2025 compared to 2010, for both men and women, the WHO said.

世卫组织说，各国在控烟方面进展不一，与2010年相比，美洲是唯一一个将在2025年前实现男性和女性的烟草使用量降低30%的地区。

However, the United States is currently not on track, bogged down by litigation over warnings on cigarette packaging and lags in taxation, said Vinayak Prasad of the WHO's tobacco control unit.