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A. The writer is an American student who studied at Oxford.
B. The writer is an European citizen who went abroad.
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A. Smokers are like outcasts in America.
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A. He thinks that famous people should not smoke.
B. He thinks that it is irrelevant.
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A. The woman was doing it on purpose.
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A. He thinks that Americans are more polite.
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European Attitudes to Smoking
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European Attitudes to Smoking



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1

Sometime earlier this year I took a trip to Europe, to England and France actually. My family helped me out, because I wanted to go and see some friends in France, and I also had three people that I went to school with at Oxford.
2

It was a wonderful trip, I really loved it. But one thing that struck me was how different cultures are from your own. They are not only different, they are also similar, but I suppose it is the differences that really stand out. One of the things that struck me very much was the difference in attitudes towards smoking.
3

There is - as many people know - there's a growing anti-smoking sentiment in this country. And you see smokers huddled outside of their office buildings, in front of doors with their cigarettes in their hands and shuddering... wrapping their coats closer about them shuddering and getting a drag off a cigarette. And almost embarrassed, almost like they are fixers of illegal drugs. And I only feel sorry for them in a way, but I don't like smoking personally. So I don't really feel too sorry for them.
4

However when I went to England and France, I got a new prospective on this issue. To be blunt, people in Europe smoke like chimneys, in my point of view, from what I could see. There are anti-smoking signs all over the place, but no one seems to pay much attention to them. People seem to smoke anywhere and everywhere, and even though there's anti-smoking campaigns.
5

In fact, when I was in England there was controversy, that I heard several times over the radio, about a member of the world cup team, the world cup soccer team, who smoked. And people were actually saying "well he shouldn't be on the team because he's a bad example for our children." Well I think if they want to look at bad examples for their children with smoking, they should just go out on the street, or go into the subways or look in the mirror even, because so many of them are smoking in very inappropriate places.
6

I went to a Chinese restaurant in London, the food was very bad but that's beside the point, - and they had a buffet. They had a buffet in which people could take whatever they wanted for a certain price. And there was this one woman, this one English woman who had her cigarette in her hand, lit cigarette. And she was blowing smoke and holding her cigarette directly over the buffet food. And I was appalled that this would even be allowed. I thought in America this person would be kicked out immediately.
And the other Americans at the table were really appalled too, and actually when I talked to an English person later, they were pretty appalled too. And they said that's rude for even British standards.
7

But it didn't just make me feel that Europeans are bad and it didn't just have a negative effect. It also had conversely a positive effect on my attitudes toward American smokers. There are a lot of American smokers who have attitudes, and they will proclaim their right to smoke whenever they want, and they will complain about anti-smoking rules. But they will follow the rules generally. If they cannot smoke in a public building, if there is a no-smoking sign, they will go outside. And they will not smoke where they are asked not to smoke. And in general they do have consideration for other people - for non-smokers. They will ask "can I smoke?" - whereas it seems to me that at least in Europe people just smoked anywhere. They didn't ask for permission or anything.
8

So this experience in Europe gave me more of a respect for people who smoke in this country, even though I still don't like smoking. I respect the fact that even when they do smoke they follow the rules and try to respect other peoples' feelings.