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When I travel to Third World countries, I see many people like my father and daughter. There are large billboards directed at them both: the tough, "take-charge," or dapper older man, the glamorous, "worldly" young woman, both puffing away. In these poor countries, as in American ghettos and on reservations, money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and addicting their children, eventually eradicating themselves. I read in the newspaper and in my gardening magazine that cigarette butts are so toxic that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die, and that the boiled water from a bunch of them makes an effective insecticide.
我去第三世界國家旅行時，看到了許多像我父親和女兒那樣的人。到處都有針對他們這 兩類人的巨大廣告牌：強壯、“有領導風范”或衣冠楚楚的成熟男人，以及迷人、“世故的年輕女人，都在吞云吐霧。就像在美國的貧民窟或者印第安人的居留地一樣，在這些貧窮的國家里，那些本該花在食物上的錢卻流進了煙草公司。久而久之，人們不但缺少食物，還會缺少空氣，這樣不僅大大損害了他們的孩子的體質，還使孩子們染上煙癮，最終置他們于死 地。我在報紙和我的園藝雜志上看到，煙蒂的毒性很強，如果一個嬰兒吞下一個煙蒂，很可 能會死亡，而用一把煙蒂煮沸的水是很有效的殺蟲劑。
