BMJ  2008;336:634 (22 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39521.618646.DB

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China plans antismoking clinics

Roger Dobson

1 Abergavenny

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China is planning a national chain of antismoking clinics, according to a report.

Smoking habits among key groups, including doctors and teachers, are to be surveyed beforehand, says the report in the Chinese Medical Journal (2008;121:402).

According to the report, the survey, to be carried out later this year, will look at smoking in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities.

"The goal is to have at least one outpatient facility in each province, where smokers would be offered a combination of medical and psychological treatment depending on their nicotine dependence," says the report.

It says that two out of three people in the country either smoke or are affected by it. China has 350 million smokers, a figure that is growing by three million a year. An additional 50 million teenagers are thought to smoke. The number of people affected by passive smoking is estimated to have been 540 million . . . [Full text of this article]


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