Tobacco firms have admitted putting 600 secret ingredients and additives in cigarettes, the Healt Secretary disclosed yesterday. Alan Milburn promised that the list would be published in full within weeks so that consumers, for the first time, would “know that they are smoking”.His comments at a meeting of the Commons Health Comittee came ahead of a European directive on tobacco, that will put new ceilings on nicotine and carbon monoxide levels, increase the size of warnings and restrict the use of “mild” or “low tar” to describe cigarettes brands. Although tobacco companies had promised the previous Government that they would provide the Department of Health with a full list of additives, Mr. Milburn said that he had only just received the dossier.
The ingredients include sucrose, cocoa, citric acid and ammonium which speeds up the nicotine “hit”. Mr. Milburn said that “until very recently nobody knew about any of these ingredients”, adding that he was demanding further information from the tobacco companies so that they could show which brands contained the additives. “It is our intention to put that information on the Health Department´s website before too long”, he said.
Glossary:
tar = alquitrán
sucrose = sacarosa
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1. Read the text and answer the questions about it. Use your own words where possible. Your answers will be assessed from 0 to 1 each (0-3 as a whole).
a) What have tobacco firms admitted?
b) What where Alan Milburn´s comments?
c) Did people know about any of these additives in cigarettes?
2. Transform the following sentences according to the instructions. Answers will be assessed from 0 to 0.5 each (2 as a whole).
a) Put into the passive: Tobacco firms have admitted putting 600 secret ingredients in cigarettes.
b) Put into the past (both verbs): The ingredients include sucrose, cocoa, citric acid and ammonium which speeds up the nicotine “hit”.
c) Put into reported speech: “It is our intention to put that information on the Healt Department´s website before too long”. Begin: Mr. Milburn said...
d) Complete: If the list of additives in cigarettes had been published in full...
3. Find one synonym in the text for each of the words below. 0 to 0.25 each answer (1 as a whole).
a) contents b) announced
d) purpose c) comprised
4. Write about one of the following topics, between 70-100 words (0-4 marks).
- Are you a smoker or a non smoker? Do you have any problems at home or in school?
- Give your reasons for or against smoking.
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