Published 26 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b302
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b302

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One third of Chinese men will be killed by tobacco if high smoking rates persist

Roger Dobson

1 Abergavenny

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One hundred million people in China will be killed by tobacco in the first half of this century if current smoking trends continue, a report says (CVD Prevention and Control 2009 Jan 20, doi:10.1016/j.cvdpc.2008.12.001).

One third of all young Chinese men will eventually die of tobacco related diseases, and the annual number of tobacco deaths will rise to three million by the middle of the century.

"The only hope of substantially limiting tobacco deaths in China in the first half of this century is for many of the adults who now smoke to stop doing so, because discouraging young people from starting will take many decades to produce its main health benefits," say the authors, Richard Peto, Zheng-Ming Chen, and Jillian Boreham, all from the University of Oxford.

The report says that there has been a rapid increase in cigarette consumption in China since the 1970s. Annual . . . [Full text of this article]


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