英語検定ライティング準１級（第101回）

タバコ「昔から副流煙が苦手すぎる話」

この人もタバコを吸うんだなあ。という意外性を感じさせる人がたまにいて、でも紙のタバコではなくて電子タバコの人が多い。研究不足なんだが、調べる価値あるのかな。
Sometimes there is an unexpected smoker around me, in fact, who doesn’t smoke cigarettes made of paper, but he or she smokes electronic cigarettes.
I have been a non-smoker since a little child, so I don’t have enough knowledge about smoking, but perhaps such a behavior seems worth searching online.

自分はタバコっていいなあと思ったことがなくて、むしろ他人が吐く煙が不快感を与えるので、肯定的に考えたことは一度もない。デメリットしかないように思えるのだが。
There aren’t any opportunities for me to have the feeling that smoking should give me something advantageous because smoking has been far away from me for a long time, instead I always have had this attitude : smokers’ sidestream smoke would make negative contributions to both mental and physical health of ours.
I fail to discover any advantages of smoking because there are numerous disadvantages to have negative influences on our environments or surroundings.

電子タバコを吸う人の吐いた煙は、確かに被害が少ないかも。紙のタバコの副流煙ほど不快感はない。コスパは悪そうだ。メリットがあるのだろうから検索してみると。
Sidestream smoke, called “fukuryuen” in Japanese, released from smokers enjoying electronic cigarettes isn’t as uncomfortable as that of paper cigarettes while both types of cigarettes makes us unpleasant.
But electronic cigarettes brings such smokers to a critical situation in a financial viewpoint, we assume.
The intuition that smoking, miraculously, has a few benefits hit on me, so such an idea caused me to search something important on the Internet, which informed me of several advantages about smoking.

ストレスの解消がある。確かにストレスがたまらない人はいないからそれはいい。でも副流煙は周囲にストレスをあたえるかもよ。自分だけ良ければいいという考え方だ。
Smoking causes smokers to eliminate their stress from their mental condition, which is the first advantage, an online article says.
We should have these benefits so that the number of people irritated or frustrated would become smaller around us, which makes smoking something valuable.
But sidestream from smokers never fails to make people nearby feel stressed, so we consider such smokers as self-centered guys, whose top priority is “smoking.”

タバコ税を払うので経済効果があるらしい。２兆円くらいの税収になるらしいけど、喫煙で病気になると医療費が必要になる。それは４兆円を超えるので赤字なんだね。
Smokers absolutely pay tobacco taxes, which leads to positive economic effects, an online article says.
Such taxes could provide our government with tax revenue, which amounts to 2 trillion yen.
But smoking results in numerous patients with serious illnesses, as a result, this catastrophe requires medical expenses, which amounts to over 4 trillion yen.
After all, smoking makes negative contributions to our society because it locates our nation budget in the red.

他にも肥満のリスクが少なくなるとある。だが周囲には肥満な喫煙者は莫大いるでしょ。知らないことを検索して実情が分かると、達成感があっていいなあと今思った。
Smoking reduces a chance of gaining weight, an online article says, but there are numerous obese smokers around us, which might be an extremely contradictory explanation, so we fail to find this evidence reasonable.
We could feel a sense of accomplishment when we search something online, so that we might understand several affairs : technological developments serve us.

The conclusion is that tobacco industry fails to make positive contributions to our society, to our regret.