Nearly one in three smokers worldwide lights up in China, where cigarettes - commonly given as gifts - are so tightly woven into the culture, some believe it's an impossible habit to kick. But a new report suggests the keys to quitting lie in the country's own backyard.
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Nearly one in three smokers worldwide lights up in China, where cigarettes — commonly given as gifts — are so tightly woven into the culture, some believe it's an impossible habit to kick. But a new report suggests the keys to quitting lie in the country's own backyard. Hong Kong has successfully fought tobacco for two decades and seen its smoking rate drop from 23 percent in 1982 when the ...
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The statistics are frightening: one-third of the world's smokers (300 million) live in China, and chronic diseases caused by smoking are a growing burden to public health there. Current projections estimate that the number of tobacco-related deaths in China will increase to 2 million annually by 2025.
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Most of China's more than 350 million smokers have no idea that tobacco addiction is a disease requiring medical treatment to quit, medical experts said.
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London, July 27 : The owner of a mynah bird in China has revealed that his pet bird has become so much addicted to smoking that it starts pestering him for a fag first thing in the morning.
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Those of you smokers hoping to quit healthily using those newfangled electronic cigarettes coming out of China as a crutch... Sorry - turns out that they're just as bad as the real thing, just in a different way. The US FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation, Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis (DPA) took an indepth look at the e-smoking devices on the market and found thus: * Diethylene glycol was ...
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March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Getting people to quit smoking is the most effective way to slow the death rate among tobacco users in countries including China and India, the world’s biggest tobacco producers, researchers said today.
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March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Getting people to quit smoking is the most effective way to slow the death rate among tobacco users in countries including China and India, the world’s biggest tobacco producers, researchers said today.
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China is the world's largest cigarette producer and Chinese are the world's most enthusiastic smokers, with a growing market of about 320 million making it a magnet for multinationals and focus of international health concerns.
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Source: Reuters BEIJING, March 3 (Reuters) - China has offered its male doctors, more than half of whom smoke, some urgent medical advice -- quit the habit and set an example to the hundreds of millions of other ...
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