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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: China |
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| | China manufactured 750 billion cigarettes in 1978, 960 billion in 1983, and (as the |
| | world's largest producer and consumer) 1586 billion in 1989. China produces 50% of |
| | the world's tobacco and 25% of the world's cigarettes. |
| | JAMA, August 26, 1990, p. 1575 |
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| | Per capita cigarette consumption in developed countries decreased by 13 percent |
| | between 1985 and 1992. In China, it increased by 20 percent, and estimates now are |
| | that roughly 50 million of the young people alive today in China under age 20 years will |
| | die prematurely from the consequences of smoking. |
| | "Grim Forecast for World's Smokers", Reuters, May 31, 1994 |
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| | Smoking prevalence in Chinese youth is increasing by 3% each year. There are |
| | reports from China of "babies and toddlers being given puffs on lighted cigarettes to |
| | stop them from crying. Kung Mingming, a four-year-old, became so rapidly addicted |
| | that he constantly pestered his parents for cigarettes." |
| | Tobacco Control 2:7, 1993 |
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| | Chinese per capita cigarette consumption increased by 260% from 1972 to 1992, to |
| | 1900 cigarettes per year per capita. |
| | Tobacco Alert, July 1996 (World Health Organization) |
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| | In 1994, China opened its market of 298 million smokers - more than the entire |
| | population of the United States - to American cigarettes for the first time. China has a |
| | quarter of the world's smokers and a third of its cigarette consumption. |
| | Newsweek, March 21, 1994, p. 53, and Tobacco Control, Winter 1994, p. 303 |
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