| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| International: China |
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| 1.5 trillion (1,500,000,000,000) cigarettes were smoked in China in 1988, 29% of the |
| total world consumption. |
| Nicotine Addiction, p. 97 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| China has 340 million smokers in a population of 1.1 billion, and yearly per capita |
| cigarette consumption doubled in the decade of the 1980's. In 30 years, two million |
| Chinese will die annually from tobacco-induced disease, including 900,000 per year |
| from lung cancer alone. The most common cancer in China at this time is liver cancer. |
| JAMA, January 6, 1989, p. 28 and Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1988 |
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| "No discussion of the tobacco industry in the year 2000 would be complete without |
| addressing what may be the most important feature on the landscape, the China |
| market. In every respect, China confounds the imagination." |
| Rene Soull, Vice President, Philip Morris Asia (Tobacco Control, Summer 1997, p. |
| 77) |
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| China consumes one-third of the world's cigarettes, and total consumption has tripled |
| in the last 10 years. Estimates are that 50 million children alive in China today, none of |
| whom yet smoke, will eventually die from tobacco-induced disease. |
| Thorax, March 1991, p. 153, and Journal of the National Cancer Institute, |
| November 18, 1992, p. 1689 |
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