Weekly News HW (July 8)
What are smoking laws like in Brazil?
States Look To Cigarettes To Bridge Budget Gaps
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106338167
Questions
Do you think that to raise [RAISING] tobacco taxes is an effective way to decrease the consume [CONSUMPTION]?
Could it make smokers give up smoking?
Vocabulary
- Levy: (n) act or process of collecting or conscripting (money, property, etc.) by a government or other authority; something which is collected through a levy (i.e. money, property, troops, etc.).
- Revenue: (n) income, return, gains; government income earned through taxation; government agency that collects tax monies; source of income.
- Shrinking: (v) contract, become smaller, shrivel; flinch, recoil; decrease, diminish; make smaller, cause to shrink
Definitions from http://www.babylon.com
