Friday, July 10, 2009
one out of every three cigarettes in the world is smoked in China
I'd made a note a year or so ago to check an interesting factoid I'd come across. Was it true?
[SFC 26 Jun 2008] article by Tamara Straus:
one out of every three cigarettes in the world is smoked in China
Really?
Well.
Yes!
Here are WHO/Western Pacific Region-Smoking Statistics from 2002.
Among the other stats given:
# Smoking will kill about a third of all young Chinese men alive (under 30 years).
# About 3,000 people die every day in China due to smoking.
# There are more than 300 million Chinese smokers - more than the entire US population. They consume an estimated 1.7 trillion cigarettes per year - or 3 million cigarettes every minute.
WHO. Trusted source. More health-related information available on the site.
posted by Sal Towse at 4:35 PM|
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[SFC 26 Jun 2008] article by Tamara Straus:
one out of every three cigarettes in the world is smoked in China
Really?
Well.
Yes!
Here are WHO/Western Pacific Region-Smoking Statistics from 2002.
Among the other stats given:
# Smoking will kill about a third of all young Chinese men alive (under 30 years).
# About 3,000 people die every day in China due to smoking.
# There are more than 300 million Chinese smokers - more than the entire US population. They consume an estimated 1.7 trillion cigarettes per year - or 3 million cigarettes every minute.
WHO. Trusted source. More health-related information available on the site.
Labels: factoid, health, world
posted by Sal Towse at 4:35 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
