英语听力精选进阶版 13848

Alcohol sponsorship and sport

Summary

23 July 2012

British MPs on the cross-party Health Select Committee have examined the government's Alcohol Strategy. They concluded that a ban on sports-related advertising¹ of alcohol products may be needed. Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance, has been speaking to the BBC.

Report

(Extracts of his interview)

"I think the Health Select Committee report has been a very useful addition to the government's Alcohol Strategy… some very useful comments on advertising and I think emphasising that advertising does change behaviour, it does influence children, and it's therefore really important that the government goes further on advertising than they've done in the past. The Health Select Committee, for example, suggested that we look harder at what they do in France where there's a complete ban on broadcast advertising of alcohol products, there's a complete ban on sport sponsorship. So that would be a really helpful way forward for this country because advertising does make a difference for children. For example, Heineken is the official beer of the 2012 Olympics now what message does that send to children about the link between alcohol and sporting prowess?"

BBC Interviewer:

The committee also says there needs to be greater emphasis on the health impact of drinking alcohol not just anti-social behaviour. Why has this emphasis always been on anti-social behaviour and not on the health impact? 

"I think everyone always finds it easier to talk about other people - those young people who are making trouble in our cities on Saturday night - rather than necessarily looking at their own consumption. We know that many people drink well above recommended safe limits; they don't make trouble in cities on Saturday night, they're doing so at home. It's this hidden drinking on a regular basis that leads to many of the chronic² conditions we see in our hospitals every day of the year – cirrhosis of the liver, strokes, cancers that are strongly alcohol related and so on – so I think it's been a very useful change in emphasis."

1 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

2 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。