喝不起伏特加，就喝沐浴油？

喝不起伏特加，就喝沐浴油？

很多日用品中含有高度酒精，饮用廉价伏特加替代品致死的问题在俄偏远地区尤其严重。俄政府不得不改变此类产品的监管，以减少它们对嗜酒者的吸引力。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

cabinet内阁；橱柜['kæbɪnɪt]

vodka伏特加酒['vɒdkə]

contaminated受污染的；弄脏的[kən'tæməneɪtɪd]

decree法令；判决[dɪ'kriː]

cosmetic化妆品；装饰品[kɒz'metɪk]

pharmaceutica药物[,fɑːmə'suːtɪk(ə)l; -'sjuː-]

vending machines自动贩卖机

fraction分数；部分['frækʃ(ə)n]

Irkutsk伊尔库茨克[ir'ku:tsk]

miracle奇迹，奇迹般的人或物['mɪrək(ə)l]

Putin orders crackdown on vodka substitutes after bath oil deaths（305 words）

By Max Seddon in Moscow

Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered his cabinet to crack down on dangerous vodka substitutes after 62 people in Siberia died this week from drinking contaminated bath oil.

Mr Putin’s decree,published on the Kremlin’s website on Wednesday,will introduce measures restricting the production and sale of cosmetics and medicines with alcohol content above 25 per cent. The move comes amid a surge in cases of people dying from drinking cheap pharmaceutical products for their high alcohol content — sometimes as much as 95 per cent — instead of vodka.

With such products,often available from vending machines on the street,selling for a fraction of the price of legally made vodka,the problem is particularly acute in provincial Russia and has worsened as a two-year recession takes its toll on the poorest Russians.

The government is also under orders to change regulation on the products to make them less attractive to drinkers.

In Irkutsk,the Siberian city near Lake Baikal where at least 107 people fell ill from drinking the bath oil,local authorities declared a public health emergency and banned the sale and production of all alcohol not marketed as a beverage. Oleg Yaroshenko,the region’s top public health official,said that about half of those still in hospital were not expected to live.

“Only a miracle can save them,”he said,according to state media. Regulators say that Russians annually drink a total of 170m-250m litres of“pharmacy cognac”measured in vodka terms of about 40 per cent alcohol.

Taking into account the liquids’higher alcohol content,the underground alcohol market makes up about 20 per cent of total consumption.

Police said the bath oil sold in Irkutsk had contained methylated spirit and antifreeze instead of ethanol. Counterfeit vodka made at the same factory that produced the bath oil also contained methylated spirit.