“Without rapid, consistent and large-scale action against smoking China will face a wave of premature deaths” – drew attention to one of the study’s authors, Professor Liming Li of the academy medical treatment in Beijing.
In a study published in the prestigious journal “The Lancet” underlined that two out of three young men in China reaches for cigarettes, usually before the age of 20. Half of them will die if good not quit smoking.
According to calculations by scientists in 2010, the number of deaths caused by tobacco smoking in China reached one million (including 840 thousand. men). Researchers predict that if the current trend continues in 2030 it will be the cause of death of 2 million people, and in 2050 years – 3 million. For comparison – it is estimated that there are currently worldwide die each year due to smoking approx. 6 million people.
The researchers found, moreover, that in China between 1990 and 2010 has greatly increased mortality associated with tobacco; now it is the cause of death approx. 20 percent. men (25 percent in cities.) aged 40-79 years, while in 1990, tobacco was responsible for 10 percent. deaths in this age group.
The risk of premature death is getting lower and for Chinese women, among which is becoming fewer smokers.
Professor Richard Peto of Oxford pointed out that one way of reducing tobacco use in China could be a radical increase in tobacco prices. “Over the past 20 years in the West, fewer and fewer people were dying because of smoking, among others due to price increases,” – he stressed.
The study is a collaboration of scientists from Oxford, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Center for Disease Control.
(RZ)
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