万花筒 2011-05-23&05-24 如何让青少年戒烟

 Each day, approximately 1,000 American teens begin to smoke. Now a new study in next month's issue of Pediatrics, finds that doctors who talked to their adolescent patients about the dangers of smoking had a positive impact on the teens' attitudes towards tobacco use and in many cases influenced them to quit. 

 

Investigators¹ looked at more than 5,100 students. They found among current smokers², those teens who spoke³ to their physicians were more likely to plan to quit smoking within six months of the conversation, than those who did not talk to their doctors. And furthermore, those teenagers who were examined by a physician were more likely to try to quit, more than those who never saw a doctor. 

 

Researchers concluded their results showed the value and benefits of physicians talking to young people about the dangers of smoking and tobacco use. 

 

For today's Health Miniute, I’m Ninette Sosa.

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 smokers   

吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。