Chinese Students Begin to Smoke at a Younger Age.
Cigarette smoking has been identified as a risk factor for lung cancer, but studies have shown a rapidly increasing incidence of lung cancer among female non-smokers. Liang Chaoyang, vice director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Beijing's China Japan Friendship Hospital, said cooking methods, the influence of second or third-hand smoke.Smoking habits have barely changed over the past decade and lack of knowledge about damage caused by nicotine addiction poses huge challenges, a landmark report said. According to Health Hazards of Smoking, issued by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday, China accounts for about 40 percent of global production and consumption, and is the world.The female smoking rate stands at 2.6 percent on the Chinese mainland, relatively low compared to other places worldwide. But among young women, particularly those working in cities, that can reach 16 percent in some regions, she added.
For ordinary trains, which are not totally enclosed but spend much longer time between stations, smoking areas are set at the joints of coaches to prevent passengers from smoking in the coaches. Zhong said such an arrangement only considers the benefits of smokers but ignores non-smokers. It is not proper for society to indulge smokers, he said.A wealth of evidence has found that sugary, processed foods high in saturated fats can expose people to potentially fatal diseases at similar, if not greater, rates than smoking. In 2016, researchers studying the mortality risks from poor diet concluded the death rates exceeded those of alcohol, drugs, unprotected sex, and tobacco combined.
China’s tobacco consumption accounts for 44% of the world’s total, said a recent report jointly issued by 37 organizations, including the Chinese Preventative Medicine Association and the Chinese Association of Tobacco Control. China has seen 15 million new smokers in 5 years.
