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40 percent of the electorate intending to vote – well below the 50 per-            The law is part of the state’s campaign to reduce tobacco use
cent needed to validate the election. And even if these figures are inac-   greatly among all Iowans by 2000. The police are charged with enforc-
curate, there will always be the worry that the legitimacy conferred on     ing the law, but some are skeptical. On their crowded list of priorities,
Putin by an overwhelming victory could be devalued by a poor turnout.       the measure shares a spot with the neighbor’s cat stuck in a tree.
       Furthermore, the move cannot be impeached as being undemo-                  «We’re too busy to enforce a law like that», Sergeant Gail Dunn
cratic. By going to the polls with his government already declared,         of the Des Moines Police Department said with a sigh.
Putin can argue that he is enhancing accountability (although his vic-             Michael J. Coverdale of the Iowa Department of Public Health
tory is guaranteed more or less whatever he does). And by demonstra-        has heard the grumbling, and his terse response is, «The law is the
tively dumping Kasyanov, rather than waiting for a couple more weeks,       law».
Putin gets to signal a clean break with the past and to distance himself           But for the first year or so, Mr. Coverdale said, he thinks the po-
further from the Yeltsin era and from certain practices of the Kasyanov     lice will simply inform under-age smokers about the law and confiscate
government.                                                                 their cigarettes.
       The Moscow Times / Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004. Page 10                         «I doubt the police would actually arrest a juvenile for smok-
                                                                            ing», he said. «But they certainly will have the option to».
      EXERCISE 3. Rewrite the article above giving only facts and                  Forty-four states have laws – rarely enforced – that bar selling
excluding opinions. Try to make it as objective as possible.                cigarettes to minors or bar minors from possessing tobacco, said Tim
                                                                            Hensley of the Centers for Disease Control’s office on Smoking and
       D. Giving your own grounded opinion                                  Health, in Atlanta.
                                                                                   “But I’m not aware of any other state that actually says they are
      The final paragraph of rendering usually introduces your own          prohibited from smoking,» he said.
opinion on the problem discussed in the article.                                   The grown-ups in Des Moines say the new law is for the «kids’
                                                                            own good», because, after all, Mr. Coverdale said, «cigarettes are often
      Your conclusion should                                                a gate way to other drugs that are illegal».
      Â be up to the exact subject of the article and touch upon the               The kids are not so sure.
         idea, NOT the theme                                                       «It’s stupid», declared Wendi Spuehler, 17, who smokes a half-
      Â be clearly formulated                                               pack of cigarettes a day. «I’m supposed to be an American. I’m sup-
      Â contain reasons supporting your viewpoint                           posed to be able to do whatever I want. If choose to ruin my lungs, it’s
      Â be deep and serious                                                 my choice and not the cops’».
                                                                                   Some police officers in Iowa are not too keen about the law, ei-
      Read the articles and do the tasks
                                                                            ther.
      ARTICLE #1 Smokers Under 18 in Iowa Now Outlaws                              In Davenport, Lieutenant Michael C. Hammes said he doubted
                                                                            that the measure would «scare very many kids» away from cigarettes.
       DES MOINES – Young smokers beware: On Monday it became
                                                                                   «I started smoking when I was 13», he said. «My parents didn’t
illegal in Iowa for anyone under 18 to smoke a cigarette.
                                                                            scare me from smoking. And I feared my father more than I feared the
       If caught smoking, chewing or even possessing tobacco by the
                                                                            police, and he couldn’t stop me».
police, an under-age offender could be fined as much as $100, yanked
                                                                                   The tobacco industry, which has been under attack in the courts
off the street or out of the shopping mall and taken home in the back-
                                                                            over liability in smokers’ deaths, has no argument with the law. Even the
seat of a squad car.
                                                                            Tobacco Institute, an industry lobby group in Washington, supports it.
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