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Common Problems, Common Solutions

The chances are that you made up your mindabout smoking a long time ago-and decided it's not for you.

The chances are equally good that you know alot of smokers-there are, after all about 60 millions of them, work with them,play with them, and get along with them very well.

And finally it's a pretty safe bet that you'reopen-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers andnonsmokers-or you wouldn't be reading this.

And those three things make you incrediblyimportant today.

Because they mean that yours is the voice-notthe smoker's and not the anti-smoker's-that will determine how much ofsociety's efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how muchinto the search for solutions that bring us together.

For one tragic result of the emphasis onbuilding walls is the diversion of millions of dollars from scientific researchon the causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, stillstrike the nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent health organization,to cite but a single instance, now speeds 28 cents of everypublicly-contributed dollar on "education"(much of it in anti-smokingpropaganda) and only 2 cents on research.

There will always be some who want to build walls,who want to separate people from people, and up to a point, even these mayserve society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, to give them their due,helped to make us all more keenly aware of choice.

But our guess, and certainly our hope, is thatyou are among the far greater number who know that walls are only temporary atbest, and that over the long run, we can serve society's interests better byworking together in mutual accommodation.

Whatever virtue walls may have, they can nevermove our society toward fundamental solutions. People who work together oncommon problems, common solutions, can.

1. What does the word "wall" used inthe passage mean?

A) Anti-smoking propaganda.

B) Diseases striking nonsmokers as well assmokers.

C) Rules and regulations that prohibit smoking

D) Separation of smokers from nonsmokers.

2. In paragraph 4, "you" refers to

A) smokers

B) non-smokers

C) anti-smokers

D) smokers who have quitted smoking

3. It is evident that the author is not in favorof

A) building a wall between smokers andnonsmokers

B) doing scientific research at the expense ofone's health

C) bringing smokers and nonsmokers together

D) providing accommodation for smokers.

4. As is suggested, the common solution to thecommon problem is

A) To separate people from people

B) To work together in mutual accommodation

C) To make us more keenly aware of choice

D) To serve society's interests better.

5. According to the passage, the writer looksupon the anti-smoking wall-builder's actions

A) optimistically

B) pessimistically

C) unconcernedly

D) skeptically

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