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    Final ESP 1 Reading Exam

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    1. New Zealand's new government will scrap the country's pioneering law from 2022 that introduced a steadily rising smoking age to prevent those born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, in order to fund planned tax cuts. 2. The scrapped law was designed to save lives and billions in healthcare costs by reducing smoking rates. However, public health experts believe repealing it could cost up to 5,000 lives per year and disproportionately impact Māori communities who face higher smoking rates. 3. While the government says the revenue from cigarette sales will help fund tax cuts, health experts argue the law would have saved $1.3 billion in healthcare costs over 20 years and significantly reduced mortality rates,

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    1. New Zealand's new government will scrap the country's pioneering law from 2022 that introduced a steadily rising smoking age to prevent those born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, in order to fund planned tax cuts. 2. The scrapped law was designed to save lives and billions in healthcare costs by reducing smoking rates. However, public health experts believe repealing it could cost up to 5,000 lives per year and disproportionately impact Māori communities who face higher smoking rates. 3. While the government says the revenue from cigarette sales will help fund tax cuts, health experts argue the law would have saved $1.3 billion in healthcare costs over 20 years and significantly reduced mortality rates,

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    1. New Zealand's new government will scrap the country's pioneering law from 2022 that introduced a steadily rising smoking age to prevent those born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, in order to fund planned tax cuts. 2. The scrapped law was designed to save lives and billions in healthcare costs by reducing smoking rates. However, public health experts believe repealing it could cost up to 5,000 lives per year and disproportionately impact Māori communities who face higher smoking rates. 3. While the government says the revenue from cigarette sales will help fund tax cuts, health experts argue the law would have saved $1.3 billion in healthcare costs over 20 years and significantly reduced mortality rates,

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    Read the following article and do the tasks below:


    NEW ZEALAND SCRAPS WORLD-FIRST SMOKING ‘GENERATION BAN’
    TO FUND TAX CUTS
    Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost
    thousands of lives
    Eva Corlett in Wellington
    1. New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for
    future generations to help pay for tax cuts – a move that public health officials believe will cost
    thousands of lives and be “catastrophic” for Māori communities.
    2. In 2022 the country passed pioneering legislation which introduced a steadily rising smoking
    age to stop those born after January 2009 from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes. The
    law was designed to prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths and save the health system
    billions of dollars.
    3. The legislation, which is thought have inspired a plan in the UK to phase out smoking for
    future generations, contained a slew of other measures to make smoking less affordable and
    accessible. It included dramatically reducing the legal amount of nicotine in tobacco products,
    allowing their sale only through special tobacco stores, and slashing the number of stores
    legally allowed to sell cigarettes from 6,000 to just 600 nationwide.
    4. The laws were due to be implemented from July 2024. But as part of its coalition agreement
    with populist New Zealand First, National agreed to repeal the amendments, including
    “removing requirements for de-nicotisation, removing the reduction in retail outlets and the
    generation ban”.
    5. On Saturday, the new finance minister, Nicola Willis, said the measures will be axed before
    March 2024, with the revenue from cigarette sales going towards the coalition’s tax cuts.
    National has had to find new ways to fund its tax plan, after its coalition partner, New Zealand
    First, rejected a proposal to let foreign buyers back into the property market.
    6. Treasury’s pre-election fiscal update said that reducing the number of shops that could sell
    tobacco products, and the range of restrictions would significantly reduce revenue to the
    crown, Willis told Newshub Nation. “Coming back to those extra sources of revenue and other
    savings areas that will help us to fund the tax reduction, we have to remember that the changes
    to the smoke-free legislation had a significant impact on the Government books – with about
    $1bn there.” Willis said coalition partners Act and New Zealand First were “insistent” on
    reversing the restrictions.
    7. Prime minister Christopher Luxon said the reversal would prevent a hidden tobacco market
    cropping up and stop shops from being targeted for crime. “Concentrating the distribution of
    cigarettes in one store in one small town is going to be a massive magnet for crime,” Luxon told
    Radio New Zealand. Luxon said his government would continue to lower smoking rates
    through education and other smoking policies.
    8. But public health experts have expressed shock at the policy reversal, saying it could cost up to
    5,000 lives a year, and be particularly detrimental to the Māori, who have higher smoking rates.
    “This is major loss for public health, and a huge win for the tobacco industry – whose profits
    will be boosted at the expense of Kiwi lives,” said Prof Lisa Te Morenga, the chair of non-
    government industry group Health Coalition Aotearoa.
    9. Te Morenga highlighted recent modelling that showed the regulations would save $1.3bn in
    health system costs over the next 20 years, if fully implemented, and would reduce mortality
    rates by 22% for women, and 9% for men. “Turning the tide on harmful products that are
    entrenched in society cannot be done by individuals, or even communities,” Te Morenga said.
    “It takes good – and brave – population-level policies.”
    10. The leading Māori public health organisation, Hāpai te Hauora, said the reversal will be
    “catastrophic for Māori communities”. “This move suggests a disregard for the voices of the
    communities most affected by tobacco harm – favouring economic interests,” said chief
    executive Jason Alexander.
    Source: The Guardian, 27 Nov 2023
    (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/new-zealand-scraps-world-first-smoking-
    generation-ban-to-fund-tax-cuts)
    I. Find the phrases in the article which have the following meaning: (2 points)
    1. kill thousands of people
    2. a large number of
    3. reducing
    4. harmful to
    5. New Zealanders
    II. Explain the meaning of the underlined expressions, as used in the article: (3 points)
    1. to phase out smoking for future generations (Paragraph 3)
    2. de-nicotisation (Paragraph 4)
    3. the crown (Paragraph 6)
    4. cropping up (Paragraph 7)
    5. Turning the tide on harmful products (Paragraph 9)
    III.Answer the following questions based on the article: (5 points)
    1. According to the article, what legislation did New Zealand officially approve in 2022?
    2. What was special about this legislation?
    3. What has New Zealand’s new government agreed to do when deciding to officially end such
    a law?
    4. According to the coalition government, why has such a decision been taken?
    5. How have public health experts reacted to the decision?
    THE END
    Ghi chú: - Đề thi gồm có 03 bài, 02 trang;
    - Thí sinh được sử dụng từ điển đơn ngữ;
    - Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.

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