{"id":1880,"date":"2014-01-27T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2014-01-27T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:19:47","slug":"can-china-really-stop-350-million-people-from-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Can China really stop 350 million people from smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deng Xiaoping, “Paramount Leader” of China 1982-1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interesting read from NBC about China getting serious about cracking down on smoking.<\/p>\n

China is the biggest smoking country on the planet with 350 million smokers (compared to about 45 million in the U.S.). According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 million people in China die every year from smoking-related illnesses. WHO also estimates 3 million Chinese will die every year from smoking-related diseases by 2050.<\/p>\n

A high level Chinese committee announced last week that it plans to ban smoking in public places<\/a> by the end of 2014. (China also recently banned <\/a>public officials from smoking in public).<\/p>\n

I have no idea how strictly such a ban would be enforced. The state tobacco company in China, called China National Tobacco Corporation, grossed an incredible $19 billion last year in tobacco sales (making it the largest tobacco company in the world, not Philip Morris or RJ Reynolds or BAT.) Is China really looking to put a dent in its own $19 billion business? (By the same token, why would state governments want to really cut smoking rates when they get so many revenues from cigarette taxes? It’s a conundrum.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ll keep my eye on this developing story. See if China is really serious about a smoking ban.<\/p>\n

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Interesting read from NBC about China getting serious about cracking down on smoking. China is the biggest smoking country on the planet with 350 million smokers (compared to about 45 million in the U.S.). According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 million people in China die every year from smoking-related illnesses. WHO also … Continue reading Can China really stop 350 million people from smoking?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[587,177],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-china","tag-smoking-in-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/140117_china_deng_smoking.3803807700.jpg?fit=291%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-uk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3528,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3528","url_meta":{"origin":1880,"position":0},"title":"Study: One in three men in China will die from smoking","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"October 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Devastating study in the Lancet this month stating that unless smoking rates are cut in China, one-third of men in that country will die from tobacco-related disease. 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