Integrated Writing 03

I found this one integrated writing, and I think it may be more test-like compares to the real test.
Here is the reading passage↓

The debate over public smoking has raised a number of public policy issues, most prominently in the areas of public health, economics, and personal rights. Few people dispute the health risks of cigarette smoking. Smokers assume risks every time they light up, just as people assume calculated health risks whenever they get into a car, eat fried food, or drink alcohol. Smokers choose to risk their health of their own free will.

Much has been made about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Policy makers have cited statistical dangers as a reason to proliferate smoking bans in public businesses—particularly restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. However, the statistics produces are suspect, at best. In fact, a federal judge dismissed an Environmental Protection Agency claim that 3.000 people die of lung cancer annually due to secondhand smoke. Researchers have found that it takes at least 20 years for direct smokers to develop a cancerous malignancy. It would take longer than a lifetime to develop cancer from inhaling secondhand smoke.

Smoking bans also affect the freedoms and economic positions of business owners and their employees. Indeed, many restaurant and bar owners have had to shut down, unable to sustain revenue losses of twenty percent or more. Others have lost large sums of money on now useless ventilation systems. Employees of these establishments have experienced corresponding reductions in their tip income.

But the most disconcerting issue is the erosion of personal freedoms. America has always sought to protect the rights of minorities, which is what smokers are, making up just a quarter of the U.S. population. Smokers pay significantly higher taxes each year, yet have watched their rights disappear. The federal government collects over $7.5 billion in excise taxes annually form smokers, and individual states collect billions more. Yet even as these taxes increase, smokers’ rights have declined. It makes one wonder which freedoms will vanish next.

Finish the reading passage within 3 minutes and then download the audio track, but I remind you that the sound is not loud enough and you have to turn up the voice.

Q.Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they contrast with the points made in the reading.