时间:2019-01-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


英语课
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English.
 
Public health officials say tobacco companies are avoiding a worldwide ban on advertising 1 tobacco products to young people by using smartphone applications, or “apps.” The officials say some of the apps are designed to persuade young people to start smoking.
 
Armando Peruga works for the World Health Organization’s Tobacco-Free Initiative. He recently discovered one such pro-smoking app online.
 
“I was taken aback by a game that is called ‘Puff 2, Puff, Pass,’ which is (an) application that’s a cartoon game where the user must click on game characters to order them to smoke and pass the cigarette to the other characters. And the user collects points if he or she continues passing the cigarette in the same sequence at a fast pace. Obviously, that can only be directed at very young kids.”
 
Millions of people around the world now have smartphones, and many of them are children.
 
Researchers in Australia searched the Apple and Android app stores using words like “smoke,” “smoking,” “cigar,” “cigarette,” and “tobacco.” They found more than one hundred apps linked to those words. The apps included not only games and social utilities, but advertisements for tobacco products, and information about where the products could be purchased.
 
Forty-two of the apps were from the Android store. Together, they had been downloaded six million times.
 
The most popular Android apps were those that simulate smoking. The apps let users smoke a virtual cigarette and produce visual effects of the cigarette being burned and smoked. Some of the simulation apps claim to aid in quiting smoking.
 
Armando Peruga said the names of some of the apps are very misleading.
 
“These apps -- which are, the study identified about a hundred seven of these pro-smoking apps -- are classified under names such as health and fitness and just…games which are very misleading, and anyone can access, especially young kids.”
 
The Australian researchers believe these pro-smoking smartphone applications violate the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The convention bans all advertising and promotion 3 of tobacco products in the media, in countries that have signed the treaty. The researchers say the app stores have a moral -- and possibly legal -- responsibility to honor the convention and other laws that ban the advertising of tobacco products to young people.
 
The report on pro-tobacco smartphone applications was published in the journal Tobacco Control.

n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
n.一口(气);一阵(风);v.喷气,喘气
  • He took a puff at his cigarette.他吸了一口香烟。
  • They tried their best to puff the book they published.他们尽力吹捧他们出版的书。
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
学英语单词
accrued depreciation
alcaics
annular granuloma
anosmum
ARPA packet switching
Ban Khang Ta Na
beat to a pulp
befettered
blue figs
brass shouldered cup screw hook
braziers' disease
Buddhist council
build in calibrator
Canada pitch
carry coals
centrifugal muller
cerebral cortexes
cesplumbtantite
chronometric method
Cobain, Kurt
coinhabiting
commercial brass
conditional loan
copper/copper-nickel thermocouple wire
cyclic associativity
distillation successive flash
drag reduction method
electrothermal load
entheogen
estimated time of berthing
ex-gratia
fictitious relative
fixed continent
fixed oceanographic station
freeflows
frequency multiplier klystron
geodetic station
germanic oxide
Gratiolet's optic radiation
harith
hypnody
Impatiens cyanantha
Japanese Agricultural Standard
l'execution
landwards
lime stone flux
linear-slot array
lower trip level
mature forest
Mesoproterozoic Erathem
mono-buoy mooring
monolithic concrete support
muleskinners
multicentral
multiprogramming repeatable robot
nabj
nag's-head
nesters
network liability system
noise balancing circuit
nonhermetic
number of pole-pairs
Oedipodiaceae
oleaginously
Ouidi
over compensate
over-based detergent
perfectional
phenyl-hexahalide
price of waiting
quack grass
read record head
real escalation rate
relative amount of elongation
rolling-diaphragm
RTS (return from subroutine)
sail cloth
Sala Lék Prǎm
Saleh, Tk.
scatter rate
Sendai
shock death in water
signallig out-band
sodium sulfovinate
spectral shaping
stable phytocoenosium
stand for Parliament
survey point
Symoron
take ... to court
threshold logic circuit
throws down
torsiversion malposition
traveys
triple smoothing method
unhemmed
urbanek
uvaria macrocarpa champ.
vifda
wall ironing machine
xanga