Spotlight：Anti-smoking musical

[2016.11.02] 發表

【明報專訊】Smoking may cause health problems like cancers, cardiac diseases and respiratory diseases. According to the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH, 香港吸煙與健康委員會), a smoker is ten times likelier to get lung cancer than a non-smoker.

Recently, COSH has partnered Chung Ying Theatre (中英劇團) to produce a musical titled Smoke-free Alliance (《無煙聯盟》). It is about the conflict between a group called Smoke-free Alliance and a tobacco (煙草) group. The musical will tour primary schools until March 2017. Schools that want their students to see it should hand in their applications as soon as possible.

(source: Ming Pao, COSH website)

■ Game 1

The Smarties are battling Eason in an anti-smoking musical, but Eason has hidden MoMo's weapon in the pattern! Can you find it?

■ Game 2

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words to know more about electronic cigarette (e-cigarette).

cause /quit / inhale / surge / contain

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are not designed to help people to 1. __________ smoking. When its cartridge containing a solution is heated up, an e-cigarette gives out a vapour, which its user 2. __________. The solution 3. __________ nicotine (尼古丁) and other chemicals, of which some are considered toxic and may 4. __________ serious health problems like cancer. According to COSH, the global sales of e-cigarettes 5. __________ more than 120-fold from 2008 to 2015. People buy them because they are curious or because they think it fashionable to use them.

(Answers on next text)

■ English highway﹕ -fold

The suffix (後綴) -fold is added to the end of a number word to form an adjective or adverb. It means "multiplied by" or "having the number of parts mentioned".

e.g. There has been a 5-fold increase in the amount of homework assigned by Miss Winston.

■ Glossary

cardiac (adj) 心臟的；心臟病的

advocate (n) 支持者

cartridge (n) (設備中可替換的)芯/筒

vapour (n) 蒸氣