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According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration there was a 50 percent increase in vaping among middle school students last year an almost an 80 percent increase among high school students. In fact, the agency says one in five of them smoke electronic cigarettes in the past month. The numbers came from a survey conducted in schools. Health officials are worried that vaping can get kids hooked on nicotine early in life and lead them to try smoking and other drugs.
So the FDA has proposed new rules concerning flavored e-cigarette products that could eventually lead to their being removed from store shelves and websites. The rules do not target menthol and tobacco flavors because the agency wants to keep them accessible for adults who try to use them to quit smoking.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What kids don`t realize is that this small e-liquid pod that comes with the Juul has as much nicotine as 20 individual cigarettes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s been devastating to us. This is not a product for youth. It`s a product for adult smokers. One of the things that we`ve done is accelerated adding a warning to all materials that talk about Juul, whether they`re in a convenience store or online. There will be 20 percent of the space showing that - - that this product contains nicotine.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right. So today we`re going to do the fourth lesson on e-cigarettes. So e-cigarette flavors, let`s look at what we`ve got here. Hawaiian punch, Gummy Bears, S`mores, Skittles, Cotton Candy, Sweet Tarts, Fruit Loops, Banana Splits who are advertisers trying to appeal to with these candy flavors?
They now come in over 7,000 flavors. Kids who use e- cigarettes, they do so precisely because of the flavors. Spend some time in a vape shop and see the customers that come in for these wildly named products. They are adults and they are the same type that watches Family Guy on Sunday nights.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No adult smoker needs cotton candy or gummy bear flavor or packaging that looks like candy. But we believe it`s incredibly important for adult smokers to have access to flavors in order to switch and to stay switched.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know it`s supposed to stop smokers but I think it`s almost helping teens get introduced to it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of these flavors mask the harshness and make this feel like it is a totally benign product.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most of my friends and I use it, to them they just think it`s water vapor. There`s nothing of it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
OK. I never read that before. Doesn`t make me feel great.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This cigarette is delivering a chemical cocktail. The story of flavorings go back almost 20 years now when we first started looking or seeing disease develop in workers at a microwave popcorn packaging plant. The workers back then were mixing kernels with fake butter flavor. Diacetyl is the name of the chemical and they were working over vats where the fumes would rise up and they`d be inhaling these fumes.
Well many of these workers developed a severe and irreversible lung disease called brochiolitis obliteran. We now call that disease "popcorn lung". Well that`s very similar to what`s happening in e-cigarettes. You have a heating element. You have the flavoring chemicals. You`re heating them and constantly inhaling them. Some users might see warnings or labels that say our product is diacetyl free and that might be true. But the reality is that to get flavors, the many thousands of flavors of e-cigarettes, they have to use some flavoring chemical and there are chemical cousins to diacetyl that are on the market right now.
The problem here is we`re not telling the whole truth. We`re only telling the half truth. We`re talking about the harms of e-cigarettes and we never mention that they`re much less harmful than cigarettes. When we talk about switching to e-cigarettes, we talk about the relative risks. We say, e-cigarettes are safer than cigarettes.
Everything is safer than cigarettes. Adult smokers have a right to know what`s in these products and we believe and support reasonable regulation.
Reasonable product standards, but what the FDA has proposed is not regulation it is prohibition for over 99 percent of products on the market today.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If the e-cigarette industry can demonstrate that any of their specific products actually help smokers quit and can be marketed in a way that doesn`t addict another generation of kids. We would welcome that. What has happened in the absence of regulation, millions of kids are using them because of the flavors and smokers who want to quit still don`t know which, if any, of these products are helpful.
电子烟 难点注释 1. Food and Drug Administration食品及药物管理局 2. vaping吸电子烟 3. electronic cigarette电子烟 4. survey调查 5. get sb hooked使上瘾 6. nicotine/ `nɪkə,tin /尼古丁 7. flavored 经过调味 8. store shelf货架 9. target面向，对准 10. menthol /'mɛnθɔl/ 薄荷醇 11. accessible可接近的; 可使用的 12. e-liquid 电子烟油 13. pod烟油瓶 14. Juul美国电子烟领导品牌 15. devastating破坏性极强的 16. accelerate使加速 17. convenience store方便店 18. Hawaiian punch--Keurig Dr Pepper旗下的混合型果汁品牌。Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.科瑞格-胡椒博士公司，美国，主营咖啡和软饮。 19. Gummy Bears发源德国的小熊胶皮糖。 20. S`mores美国家庭野营和童子军露营食品，（全麦饼干夹烤果汁软糖和巧克力）。 21. Skittles彩虹糖 （美国玛氏食品生产的糖果） 22. Cotton Candy棉花糖 23. Sweet Tarts甜馅饼 24. Fruit Loops水果圈，一种水果糖的商标名，用于美式麦片粥或谷物粥。 25. Banana Split香蕉圣代，香蕉船〔用香蕉和冰激凌做成的甜点〕 26. appeal to sb对…有吸引力 27. candy flavor糖果味 28. vape 电子水烟, 2014年度新词 29. wildly named名称千奇百怪的 30. Family Guy美国314集动画情景喜剧《家庭伙伴》或《恶搞之家》 31. switch转变，交换 32. get introduced to sth引导或带领某人接触某事物 33. mask掩盖，遮盖 34. harshness严酷 35. benign良性的, 无危险的 36. water vapor水蒸汽 37. birth defect先天缺损，天生缺陷 38. reproductive生殖的 39. deliver放出，释放 40. chemical cocktail化学混合物 41. flavoring调味品，调料 42. microwave popcorn微波爆米花，专门用微波炉来爆的爆米花 43. back then(回溯到)那时 44. kernel包在壳里的谷粒或种子 45. fake butter flavor人造黄油香料 46. Diacetyl--/,daiə'si:til/二乙酰/xiān/ 47. vat大桶 48. fume 烟 49. inhale吸入 50. irreversible不可逆的 51. brochiolitis obliteran闭塞性细支气管炎/,brɑŋkɪo'laɪtɪs/ 52. popcorn lung爆米花肺病 53. flavoring chemical化学调味品 54. chemical cousin化学衍生品 55. relative risk相对风险 56. prohibition/ ˏprəuhɪˈbɪʃn/禁止; 阻止 57. addict使上瘾 |
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