we meet smokers everywhere. there are 6.5 billion people in the world, and about 1.2 billion of them are smokers, which make up to 20 percent of the worlds total population.
smoking is very harmful. first, smoking costs a great deal of money. it wastes 200 billion dollars each year in the world. second,smoking does harm to the health of smokers and even the people near them. about 3 million people die of diseases caused by smoking every year.
luckily, more and more people have come to realize the great harm of smoking. to our delight the total amount of world tobacco production has dropped from over 14 billion pounds in to 7 billion pounds in . it is certain that the number of smokers will further decrease gradually.
吸菸者到處可見。世界上有65億人口，吸菸者佔12億，佔世界總人口的20％。
吸菸有害。首先，吸菸需要花費大量金錢。全世界每年需要浪費掉2 000億美元。其次，吸菸對吸菸者和他周圍的人有害，每年大約有300萬人死於因吸菸而引起的疾病。
幸運的是，現在越來越多的人已經認識到吸菸的`危害。使我們高興的是，世界菸草的總產量已從的，140億磅降到的70億磅。吸菸人羣也必定會逐年減少的。
