CHINA’S SMOKING CRISIS BRINGS TOO MANY UNNECESSARY DEATHS
China is the greatest host of one
of the world’s most critical pollution problems: tobacco, tobacco production
and consumption.
Dr. Zhengming Chen and
colleagues report the disturbing results that unless there is concerted
and far reaching cessation and prevention efforts, smoking will cause about 20%
of all adult male deaths in China during the 2010s, and the
yearly number of deaths in China caused by tobacco will rise from
about one million in 2010 to two million in 2030 and
three million in 2050.
Indeed, the control of the smoking
and tobacco crisis is urgent not only for the current health crisis
in China but also the future general health of China and neighboring countries.
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(15)00452-3.pdf
China’s Smoking Crisis
Mounting use of tobacco
products in China reflects the steep rise in discretionary income and
suggests a continuing increase in smoking-related deaths and health problems.
Smoking began to rise sharply among men in the 1960’s and by 1998 at least 2/3
of adult men smoked cigarettes.
But because the sharpest increase
in smoking is still nevertheless fairly recent, and because serious health
effects from smoking often take decades to emerge, mortality linked to smoking
has not yet begun to make a great statistical impact.
And wellness
pundits correctly predicted that the mortality
rate from lung cancer, emphysema and other smoking related
diseases would rise noticeably around 2010, and they were right.
In 1960, tobacco use was calculated to have caused 13 percent of all
deaths in men and 3 percent of deaths in women.
http://www.bmj.com/content/317/7170/1411
http://www.prb.org/pdf04/59.2chinaspopnewtrends.pdf
And now there is something really
new in Beijing…a smoking app and hotline. Yes there really is and you
can be photographed on the sly and fined the equivalent of $32 per occasion if
you are caught smoking. Yikes!
https://www.techinasia.com/beijing-china-ratting-out-smokers-wechat/
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