时差N小时 吸烟的代价

First of all, you're certainly not doing your family and friends a favor by deliberately¹ lowering yourlife expectancy².

首先，刻意降低你的预期寿命，并不是在帮你家人和朋友的忙。

In fact, your family will have to absorb the losses incurred³ when you miss workdue to smoking-related illnesses.

事实上，当你患上了抽烟的相关性疾病，你的家人便不得不承受造成的损失。

Second, there is a lot of debate over the best way to measurethe economic costs of smoking.

其二，通过最好的方式去衡量抽烟的经济成本还存在很多争议。

Every study is based on different assumptions, and uses different data and methods.

各项研究都基于不同的假设，而且使用了不同的数据和方法。

For example,should you measure the cost of smoking by looking at the cost of treating major illnesses like lungcancer and heart disease,

例如，通过观察治疗如肺癌，心脏病等重大疾病的成本，你估量到抽烟的成本了吗？

or should you also measure the cost of less serious illnesses?

你同时估量到不严重疾病的成本了吗？

Should youtake into account the fact that people who live longer also pay more taxes and insurancepremiums?

你考虑到活得更加长久人同时需要付更多的税费和保险的事实了吗？

Should you look at the overall cost to the healthcare system, or at the cost perindividual?

你考虑过医疗系统的总成本吗？或者是每个人的成本吗？

Anyway, regardless of how you calculate them, the economic costs of smoking areinconsequential when compared to smoking's real price:

总之，不管你怎样计算，与抽烟实际代价相比，它的经济成本便微不足道了，

the misery⁴ caused by the deaths of over400,000 people each year and the illnesses of several million.

抽烟酿成了每年40万人的死亡以及数百万人患病的悲剧。

1 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

2 expectancy   

n.期望，预期，（根据概率统计求得）预期数额

参考例句：

• Japanese people have a very high life expectancy.日本人的平均寿命非常长。
• The atomosphere of tense expectancy sobered everyone.这种期望的紧张气氛使每个人变得严肃起来。

3 incurred   

[医]招致的，遭受的； incur的过去式

参考例句：

• She had incurred the wrath of her father by marrying without his consent 她未经父亲同意就结婚，使父亲震怒。
• We will reimburse any expenses incurred. 我们将付还所有相关费用。

4 misery   

n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦

参考例句：

• Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。