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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 relies on its huge deposits of high-sulfur coal for three-quarters of its electricity. |
| | Consequently, its air is among the foulest in the world. A quarter of all deaths in China |
| | are from pulmonary disease." |
| | National Geographic, September 1997, p. 30 |
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| | In contrast to most countries, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| | and emphysema are relatively common in China in nonsmokers because of the |
| | severe air pollution. |
| | 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, August 1997 |
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| | In China, deaths attributable to air pollution total an estimated 443,000 each year. |
| | 70,000 of these are from industrial (outdoor) air pollution, and the rest is primarily from |
| | smoke from indoor heating and cooking fires. |
| | New York Times, November 29, 1997, p. A6 |
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| | Antismoking campaigners at the Chinese Association on Smoking and Health |
| | receive just $24,000 a year from the Chinese government. At the same time, the state |
| | monopoly tobacco industry had pretax profits in 1996 of more than $10 billion, a 17% |
| | increase from 1995. |
| | British Medical Journal, August 30, 1997, p. 502 |
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