| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| International: China |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| 70% of all men ages 25 to 35 in China are smokers, as are 46% of health |
| professionals. |
| 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (H. Thai) |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| In 1989, 67.5% of male physicians in the city of Beijing smoked, higher than the |
| national average of 57% of physicians. |
| American Medical News, October 3, 1994 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| In China there is no age ban on smoking, and 35% of 12 to 15-year-olds and 10% of |
| nine to 12-year-olds are smokers. (60% of men and 7% of women over age 15 |
| smoke.) |
| Panoscope, October 1994, p. 19 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| In a survey of high school seniors in Beijing, China, 46% of males and 5.5% of |
| females were smokers. |
| Tobacco Control, Summer 1994, p. 107 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| There were 100,000 deaths from tobacco-induced disease in China in 1987. By the |
| year 2025, these deaths will increase twenty-fold, to two million per year. |
| NEJM, March 28, 1991, p. 918 |
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| China has expanded its tobacco production dramatically, from 18 million pounds in |
| 1911 to 3.4 billion pounds in 1980 and 4.7 billion pounds by 1990. |
| Tobacco in History, p. 212 |
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