Comprehension: Smoking in pubs? - Andalucía 2006

 

COMPREHENSION

SMOKING IN PUBS?

ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

1) Why was the government worried? 

• Because their intolerance towards smokers would be censured. 

2) Why did some members of the government disagree with the prohibition?

• Because they were afraid they would become an overprotective state.

ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT.

3) The government will prohibit pubs from serving food.

• FALSE:The government is going to forbid…..smoking in all pubs.

4) There are smoking-carriages on all british trains.

• FALSE:They are examining plans to allow a “smoking-carriage option”.

5) Labour voters are being discriminated against by the government.

• FALSE: The government had been worried about being accused of discriminating against smokers, particularly working-class labour voters.

6) The government expects to save millions of pounds.  

• TRUE: Smoking-related diseases kill more than 100,000 people a year and cost the national health service millions of pounds treating people with such diseases.

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