单项选择题

Many countries will not allow cigarette advertising in their newspaper or on TV—especially (1) the advertisements are usually written with young people in mind. (2) advertising, the tobacco companies have begun to (3) sports events. They give money to football, motor racing, tennis and a number of (4) sports (5) condition that the name of the cigarette is (6) . This is now (7) concern, because it does exactly what many (8) try to do—suggest that smoking has some connection (9) being strong and athletic.
In all this, the point of view of the non-smokers has to be (10) as well. "I (11) smoker would stop (12) the air. I wish I could eat in a restaurant without having to smell cigarettes smoke." It has been (13) that, in a room where a large number of people are smoking, a non-smoker will breathe in the (14) of two or three cigarettes during an evening. (15) , non-smokers are now majority in many western countries. More and more people are giving up the habit, discouraged by high prices, influenced by (16) advertising or just aware that smoking is no longer really a polite thing to do.
Faced with (17) sales, the western tobacco companies have begun to look outside their own countries. They have begun advertising campaigns to persuade young people in developing countries that smoking American or British or French cigarette is a sophisticated western habit, which they should copy. (18) , more and more young people are spending (19) money they have on a product which the West recognizes as unhealthy and no longer wants. The high number of young smokers in India, in South America and in South East Asia will become tomorrow’s (20) .

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