China has more smokers than the US has in our own population. Which means over 350 million people in China smoke each day. Currently, approximately 1 million people die in China each year due to tobacco related illnesses. However, China's tobacco control programs are limited in resources to educate the public about the harmful side effects of smoking. To make it even harder for the public to understand how health damaging smoking is to their well-being is the monopolization of the tobacco industry by the Chinese government. This rather shows that the government is more interested in making money than the health of their citizens. Also, growing tobacco in China is taking up valuable farm land that can be used to grow other food items for the poor and starving rural population. The following is the cover story done by Ray Suarez about this issue.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june10/tobacco_05-31.html
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