READ THE PASSAGE CAREFULLY AND CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER.THE 22ND S...

2. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.The 22nd SEA Games, hosted this year by Vietnam, has joined the international movement torid sports of tobacco. For the first time, the regional sporting event will be tobacco-free under alandmark cooperative agreement signed in April 2003 between the World Health Organization(WHO), the 22nd SEA Games Organizing Committee and the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.Hanoi Health Department has organized a press seminar to celebrate and raise awareness aboutthe tobacco-free SEA Games.The 22nd SEA Games is the first games hosted by Vietnam and 10 countries from theSoutheast Asian region with nearly 8,000 athletes and coaches will participate. It will be the firsttobacco-free international sporting event in Vietnam, joining other international tobacco-freesporting events such as the FIFA World Cup 2002, and the Winter Olympic Games 2002.The 22nd SEA Games will ban all sales, advertising and other promotion of tobacco products,and restricts smoking in all Games venues. The aim is to protect spectators, athletes, event staff,media and other visitors from the serious health hazards of second-hand tobacco smoke, as well asto change public attitudes about the social acceptability of smoking.Madame Pascale Brudon, WHO Representative in Vietnam, stated, "Vietnam has established3 years ago a comprehensive, ambitious national tobacco control policy and a national tobaccocontrol program. The tobacco-free 22nd SEA Games will be yet another area where Vietnam isleading the way for other countries in the region and the world in protecting its citizens from thedebilitating and disastrous consequences of tobacco use."WHO has provided funding and technical assistance to the SEA Games OrganizingCommittee and Vietnamese Ministry of Health to train of over 4,000 SEA Games organizers andvolunteers on the implementation of the tobacco-free policy. An international team of trainersfrom the Ministry of Health, International Organization for Good Temper (lOGT), WHO andInternational Development Enterprises (IDE) began a series of national training workshops forvolunteers in April, 2003.The tobacco-free SEA Games are an inspiration and a model for other sport events, big andsmall, not only in Vietnam but also in the Southeast Asian and Western Pacific Region.