Studies say 1/3 of young men in China to die from smoking

In total, one in three young men is expected to die because of smoking.

Almost 80% of the more than 1 billion people worldwide who smoke live in low- and middle-income countries, where those measures are the least prevalent, while the burden of early death is heaviest.

The research was based on two studies that took place 15 years apart from each other.

England One in three of most the young men in China will get murdered by tobacco products except if a rich amount of one have success in kicking the habit of tobacco, research scientists said on Friday.

Statistics from global health agencies show that most Chinese smokers are unaware of the deadly consequences of smoking too much cigarettes. About 66% of the young men in China start smoking before age of 20 with 50% of them are at increased risk of death if they do not quit smoking permanently.

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Overall adult mortality rates in China are falling, but as the adult population grows, and with it the proportion of male deaths from smoking, the annual number of tobacco-related deaths is set to rise from about 1 million in 2010 to 2 million in 2030 and 3 million in 2050.

These studies show that two-thirds of the young men in China start to smoke, usually starting before age 20, and that half of those will eventually be killed by tobacco unless they stop smoking. That said, according to the research, approximately 10 percent of women smoked 80 years ago.

At the same time, it also reports that smoking among Chinese women has fallen dramatically. This has led to a drop in the death rate caused by tobacco to less than one per cent of women born since 1960.

There are a few silver linings, the authors said – including that the number of smokers who quit rose from 3 percent in 1991 to 9 percent in 2006. There are many myths about smoking in China, such as that Asians are biologically immune to the smoking hazards that hurt people in the West, or that tobacco use is an essential part of ancient Chinese culture.

Tobacco kills about 6 million every year, about 600,000 of whom die from the effects of secondhand smoke. Taxes in cigarette are an important source of revenue for the Chinese government. “For China, a substantial increase in cigarette price could save tens of millions of lives”, Peto said.