From AFP, via The Courier-Mail:
China faced a huge challenge in its battle against smoking, and the problem would take years to rectify even if Beijing ratified an international treaty aimed at cutting tobacco-related deaths, analysts said yesterday.
China is home to one in three of the world’s smokers and is the world’s largest producer of tobacco.
The World Health Organisation estimates there are 350 million smokers in China, or about 36 per cent of its population.
