If you walk to the far end of any school courtyard in the UK during the lunch break, you will find several teenagers trying to hide their cigarette smoke from the teachers at the other end.
午餐休息時(shí)分，走在英國(guó)任意一所中學(xué)校園里，你都能看見(jiàn)對(duì)面有一些學(xué)生背著老師在吸煙。
Teenage smoking is a big problem in the UK, even though it is illegal to smoke before you reach 16 years of age. Children start smoking from as young as 11, and over a quarter of 15-year-olds are regular smokers, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the UK.
雖然十六歲以前吸煙是違法的，但是青少年吸煙現(xiàn)象已成英國(guó)社會(huì)一大問(wèn)題。據(jù)英國(guó)國(guó)家統(tǒng)計(jì)辦公室統(tǒng)計(jì)，有些孩子早在十一歲就開(kāi)始吸煙，十五歲孩子中有四分之一以上經(jīng)常性地吸煙。
Jonathan Williams, a 15-year-old boy from Hastings, on the south east coast of England, started smoking four months ago. “All my friends smoke so I thought I’d try it. I only smoke at weekends when I’m out with my friends,” he said. “It’s easy to buy them because most people my age look 16 anyway. No one can tell the difference between a 15 or 16-year-old.”
喬納森·威廉斯是英國(guó)東南海岸黑斯廷斯的一個(gè)十五歲的男孩，四個(gè)月前開(kāi)始抽煙。他說(shuō)：“我的朋友都抽煙，所以我想試試。但我只在周末和朋友外出時(shí)才抽。我們很容易就能買(mǎi)到煙，因?yàn)榇蠖鄶?shù)像我這么大的孩子看起來(lái)都像十六歲。沒(méi)有人能看得出十五歲和十六歲的孩子有什么不同?！?/p>
Young girls living in the UK are much more likely to smoke than boys. They also smoke more frequently. This is because girls are more likely to “follow the crowd.” They want to feel included.
生長(zhǎng)在英國(guó)的女孩子比男孩子吸煙的可能性更大，而且吸得更頻繁。因?yàn)榕⒆痈矚g趕時(shí)髦，隨大流。
Jonathan’s sister Paula is 17. She tried her first cigarette when she was just 12. “I didn’t start smoking regularly until a year ago, because I was afraid of my mum finding out,” she said. “But now I’m over 16, there’s nothing she can do, even though she doesn’t approve.”
喬納森的姐姐保拉現(xiàn)在十七歲，十二歲時(shí)開(kāi)始吸煙，她說(shuō)：“直到一年以前我才開(kāi)始·抽煙，因?yàn)榕履赣H發(fā)現(xiàn)。但是現(xiàn)在我已過(guò)了十六歲，即使母親不同意，她也拿我沒(méi)辦法。”
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