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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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| | Only 2% of Chinese men had quit and were former smokers in 1993; in 1996 in |
| | China, 61% of smokers questioned thought that tobacco did them "little or no harm." |
| | Curbing the Epidemic, pp. 3 and 18 |
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| | Over 50% of people in China think that smoking does little or no harm, and over 60% |
| | are unaware it can cause lung cancer. |
| | New York Times, November 20, 1998, p. A1 |
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| | 60% of Chinese adults do not know that smoking causes lung cancer, and 96% do not |
| | know that it causes heart disease. In 1987, about 13% of deaths in Chinese men |
| | were from tobacco use, but this figure may eventually increase to 33%. Of the deaths, |
| | only 15% were from lung cancer but 45% from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, |
| | the reverse of the pattern in the west. |
| | Lancet, November 21, 1998, p. 1683 |
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| | Tobacco growing areas in China increased from 0.8 million hectares in 1978 to 2.4 |
| | million hectares in 1997 (out of a total of 154 million hectares of agricultural land). |
| | 1998 China statistical yearbook |
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| | Philip Morris in 1998 ended its five year sponsorship of China's professional soccer |
| | league, which was called the Marlboro League. Philip Morris paid about $7 million |
| | annually as a sponsor. |
| | Wall Street Journal, November 30, 1998, p. C1 |
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