英语新闻听写 控烟加码!美国全面禁止在公共住房中吸烟

U.S. officials announced Wednesday smoking will be banned in public housing residences starting next year.

美国官员周三宣布将在明年开始禁止在公共住房内吸烟。

The federal government's historic decision to make all public housing properties smoke-free will protect millions of children and adults from dangerous secondhand smoke.

联邦政府禁止在所有公共住房吸烟的历史性决定保护数以百万的儿童和成年人免受二手烟的危害。

Secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic¹ and at least 69 that cause cancer

二手烟中含有7,000种以上的化学物质，其中数百种有毒，至少69种致癌。

and this is the next step in protecting the public from secondhand smoke.

这是保护公众免受二手烟的下一个步骤。

According to the U.S. Surgeon Genera secondhand smoke causes tens of thousands of deaths nationwide each year, and there is no safe level of exposure.

据美国公共卫生署，二手烟每年导致全国数万人死亡，且没有安全暴露水平。

1 toxic   

adj.有毒的，因中毒引起的

参考例句：

• The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
• There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。