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Recently, in the Czech Republic,

最近捷克共和国
there was a proposal to increase the excise tax on smoking.

有一个增加香烟消费税的提案
Philip Morris, the tobacco company,

烟草公司菲利普·莫里斯公司
does huge business in the Czech Republic.

在捷克共和国的生意做得很大
They commissioned a study,

他们资助了一项研究
a cost-benefit analysis of smoking in the Czech Republic,

进行在捷克吸烟的成本效益分析
and what their cost-benefit analysis found was

分析结果显示
the government gains by having Czech citizens smoke.

让捷克人民吸烟能让政府获利
Now, how do they gain?

那政府如何获利呢
It's true that there are negative effects

它确实会对捷克政府的
to the public finance of the Czech government

公共财政产生负效应
because there are increased health care costs

因为吸烟造成的疾病