1) A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that smokers in the United States spend $50 billion per year on medical costs related to smoking, which is about $2 per pack of cigarettes. 2) This cost is nearly double the amount found in previous studies and shows that smoking is as harmful to the economy as it is to health. 3) Taxpayers pay 43% of the total medical costs from smoking, which was $21.6 billion in 1993.

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Text: Study $ 50 billion goes up in smoke
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA - Smokers burn up about
$50 billion a year in medical costs
associated with cigarettes, or about $2 a
pack, according to a study.
The figures, announced Thursday by
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, are nearly double the size of
the medical bill attributed to smoking in
previous studies.
"It's staggering," said John Bloom of
the Coalition on Smoking OR Health. "It
shows that tobacco is as harmful to the
economy as it is to health."
The group, a coalition of the Ameri-
can Heart Association, the American
Lung Association and the American
Cancer Society, is seeking a $2-a-pack
increase in the federal tobacco tax. The
tax is now 24 cents a pack.
The CDC and researchers from the
University of California analyzed the
recently released National Medical Ex-
penditures Survey of 1987-88, tracking
the actual health expenses of 35,000
Americans.
Based on that data, the CDC esti-
mated that in 1993, smoking cost $50
billion in medicaI care, with $26.9 billion
- 54 percent - spent on hospitalization
alone.
Taxpayers footed 43 percent - 89
cents a pack or $21.6 billion - of the total
bill, the CDC said. Twenty-four billion
packs of cigarettes were sold last year in
the United States.
The study was released as tobacco
companies come under increasing pressure
over the health effects of smoking, which
kills more than 400,000 people a year.
President Clinton wants to raise the
cigarette tax to help pay for health reform.
The Food and Drug Administration is
investigating whether tobacco companies
manipulate nicotine levels and is
considering whether to regulate cigarettes.
A spokesman for the Tobacco Insti-
tute, Thomas Lauria, pointed to earlier
studies, including data from the CDC, that
found far lower medical costs associated
with smoking. He noted that the nation's
48 million adult smokers already pay an
average of 56 cents a pack in state and
federal taxes.
"Smokers are not only paying their
own way, but they add to the public
coffers," Lauria said. "We stand by our
conviction that those costs do not exceed
the taxes collected on the product."
Source: The Orlando Sentinel
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3 - Tente resumir em uma frase cada parágrafo.
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4 - Leia novamente o texto e encontre as seguintes informações:
a) quanto se gasta por ano com tratamento médico associado ao fumo nos E.U.A.
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b) qual é a taxa (imposto) paga por pacote de cigarro nos E.U.A.
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c) quanto foi gasto em hospitalizações relacionadas ao fumo no ano passado.
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d) o número de pessoas que morrem por ano nos E.U.A., por causa dos efeitos do cigarro.
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e) o número de americanos adultos fumantes.
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5 - Descubra quais sentenças são verdadeiras e quais são falsas:
a) Os números da pesquisa são muito maiores do que os estudiosos esperavam. ( )
b) O Presidente acha que não é hora de aumentar a taxa dos cigarros. ( )
c) Os números anunciados pelos pesquisadores não batem com os números apontados pelo
Instituto do Tabaco. ( )
d) Os pesquisadores não vêem relação entre o tabaco e a economia. ( )
6 - O que quer dizer a sigla CDC? Você consegue traduzí-la?
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7 - Ligue as palavras com suas respectivas traduções:
a) to burn up ( ) prejudicial
b) disease ( ) duas vezes
c) health ( ) aumentar
d) to raise ( ) pesquisadores
e) double ( ) queimar
f) to release ( ) saúde
g) researchers ( ) doença
h) harmful ( ) lançar
8 – Encontre no texto:
a) um sinônimo de 'to increase'__________________________
b) um sinônimo de 'numbers' ___________________________
c) um sinônimo de 'surprising' __________________________
9 - Observe a frase retirada do texto:
' ... increasing pressure over the health effects of smoking, which kills more than ... '

3. Qual é a referência contextual da palavra which? O que ela quer dizer?