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If you come to Australia, leave your naughty habits at the door. If you live here, get back in your box. The Australian gover
If you come to Australia, leave your naughty habits at the door. If you live here, get back in your box. The Australian gover
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2019-03-25
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If you come to Australia, leave your naughty habits at the door. If you live here, get back in your box.
The Australian government announced in the Federal Budget on Tuesday that it will be slogging smokers top dollar for a pack of ciggies.
Right now, they cost on average A$25 ($18.91) to A$30 for a packet of 20 or 25 cigarettes, which would already seem like highway robbery to anyone living in any other country on earth. Now, the government will be increasing the cost of cigarettes by 12.5% annually for four years. The increase will smack smokers in September each year.
If you work off a packet costing A$25 today, by 2020 it will set you back a hefty A$40. So unless you are living in a life of luxury, it is probably going to break the bank. Must be time to read the "How to stop smoking" book your old neighbor Dave recommended in 2012.
If you think you’ll just bring the cigarettes in through the duty free back door, think again. The government is reducing the amount of cigarettes you can bring into the county from 50 cigarettes to 25 cigarettes. Not 25 packs, 25 individual cigarettes. That’s one packet.
This price hike will earn the government A$4.7 billion and it will take the tax excise on cigarettes to almost 69% of the average price of a cigarette currently. This is in line with recommendations from the World Health Organization, which advised governments to increase tax by 70% so that it becomes unaffordable.
"These changes will improve the health of Australians by reducing their exposure to tobacco products and will ensure that tobacco products consumed domestically are fully taxed and comply with Australian regulations." the government noted in the budget papers.
This increase will see Australia remaining easily the most expensive place in the world for smokers. In 2015, cigarettes in the city of Melbourne cost 142% more than in New York. Cigarettes in Sydney were 130% more, according to a Deutsche Bank report.
Australia already has plain packaging laws, which see cigarettes wrapped in generic mould green color and slapped with a photograph of a dying baby.
No more sneaky ciggies for you, casual smoker!
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
选项
A、To avoid breaking the bank of Australia, people are advised to read the "How to stop smoking" book.
B、Through the duty free back door, the number of cigarettes that can be brought into the country is from 50 to 25.
C、The WHO advised governments to take high enough tax excise on cigarettes producers.
D、Only by reducing the exposure to tobacco products will the changes improve the health of Australians.
答案
B
解析
细节题。原文第四段提到“…it is probably going to break the bank.Must be time to read the‘How to stop smoking’book…”,该句中的“break the bank”意为“耗尽资源,破产”。原文是指昂贵的香烟可能会让并不富裕的人倾家荡产。故排除A。根据原文第五段中的“The government is reducing the amount of cigarettes you can bring into the county from 50 cigarettes to 25 cigarettes.Not 25 packs,25 individual cigarettes.”,即虽然可以走免税的后门,但是带烟进澳大利亚也需要三思,因为人们只能带25根香烟,可知B项正确。根据第六段中的“…take the tax excise on cigarettes…the World Health Organization,which advised governments to increase tax by 70% so that it becomes unaffordable”,可知世界卫生组织建议政府增加烟草税,但是并没有指明是增加对香烟生产商的征税,故C项属于过度解读。根据倒数第四段中的“These changes will improve the health of Ausltrialians by reducing their exposure to tobacco products…”可知D项中的only错误。
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