China Suffers 27% of World Cancer Deaths
At Bloomberg Christina Larson reports on the dramatic rise of cancer in China: A recent report...
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Cigarettes Kicked Out of School in China
China’s tobacco industry produces 40% of the world’s cigarettes, and the country is...
China Bans Officials From Smoking in Public
Xinhua reports that China’s State Council and the Party’s Central Committee have...
China Eyes Public Smoking Ban
As one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen a twofold...
Tobacco Production Doubled in China
Looking to a recent report by the Research Center for Health Development [zh], the Global Times...
Lung Cancer Experts Call for Action on Tobacco
Over the weekend, experts at the annual North-South Lung Cancer Summit in Beijing warned that...
Anti-Smoking Campaign Faces Powerful Industry
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports a “bleak” new update to a...
China Tobacco Funding Primary Schools
Ubiquitous smoking in China has led to high rates of lung cancer and other illnesses; the World Health Organization has estimated that two million people will die every year of smoking-related illness by 2020. Perhaps in order...
China Smoking Ban May Have Little Effect
China’s ban on smoking in public places will take effect this Sunday, May 1st. Expectations should not be set too high, though. Enforcement and compliance with the new law is predicted to be weak. From the Los Angeles...
China to Ban Smoking at Indoor Public Places
China, the world’s largest producer of cigarettes and home to the most smokers. is trying again to limit smoking in public in an effort to curb the national habit. From Reuters: China, which has more than 300 million...
China’s Tobacco Industry Wields Huge Power
From Didi Kirsten Tatlow in the New York Times: China has the world’s largest population, so it easily lends itself to superlatives. Even so, its 350 million smokers and the sheer scale of its tobacco industry overshadow others....
Te-Ping Chen: China’s Marlboro Country
From the Slate: YUNXIAO, China—On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in an uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the downtown streets, where motorcyclists wearing bamboo-frond...
China Raises Tobacco Tax To Curb Smoking
From AFP: China has raised taxes on tobacco by six to 11 percent in an effort to pad state coffers and curb smoking in the world’s largest cigarette market, according to the government and state press. Tobacco wholesalers...
Government Officials Say “Smoke More or Face a Fine”
Earlier this month, leaders in Gong’an County of Hebei Province issued an order for officials to smoke 23,000 packs of locally-produced cigarettes a year, but were met with a backlash from local media. The order was later...
China Cigarette Order Goes Up In Smoke
From Reuters: A county government in central China has rescinded an order which was intended to make officials smoke more to help the local economy, local authorities said on Tuesday. Functionaries in Gongan county in rural...
China, Thank You For Smoking
One out of every three cigarettes is lit in China, and respiratory disease is on the rise. Some are asking what the future of smoking will look like in China. US-China Today clears the haze: China is the world’s heaviest...
Tobacco Company Downplayed Risks in China, Report Says
An international tobacco company discouraged public smoking bans in China and tried to divert attention away from the health risks associated with smoking as they made forays into the country’s cigarette market. From the...
Guidelines to Shake China’s Tobacco Sector
From Caijing Online: China’s state-controlled tobacco industry may be in for a shock following the government’s recent decision to sign a new set of international smoking restrictions. China was one of 130 countries that agreed...
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