就在上月，有45名雇员的马萨诸塞州医院协会宣布，从明年1月1日起，协会将拒绝吸烟者加入员工队伍。

Just last month, the Massachusetts Hospital Association announced that as of Jan. 1, the organization will no longer hire smokers for its 45-person workforce.

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下面是一些有趣的猜测：其一，聪明人往往更倾向于约束自己，比如，开车谨慎，饮食健康，拒绝吸烟，锻炼身体。

There are some interesting hypotheses: one is that intelligent people are more likely to strap themselves in while driving, choose to eat a healthy diet, avoid smoking, and exercise more often.

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几年前，澳大利亚首都墨尔本的医生，拒绝给那些因吸烟而需要肝移植的病人做手术，就算手术是为了他们能保住一条命。

A few years ago surgeons in Melbourne, Australia, were refusing to provide heart and lung surgeries to smokers, even those who needed the operations to stay alive.

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