Smoking

Breast Cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer deaths in women, and though the proportion Chinese women who die from breast cancer may be relatively fewer than in most large, developed nations (about 5.7 out of 100,000 deaths in China, as opposed to 14.7 out of 100,000 deaths in the United States) breast cancer rates have risen dramatically in the past two decades – a 2007 report cited a 23 percent increase in Beijing between the years of 1997 to 2007. 

Now a more recent China Daily report (via the People’s Daily) cites a survey conducted between 1999 to 2008 by the Cancer Foundation of China that indicates Chinese women developing the disease at “a much younger age” than women in other countries.  

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The forthcoming government ban on smoking at all indoor public venues goes into effect on May 1 and with this ban, China joins a growing list of countries, ranging from Bhutan and Bahrain, to India, Russia, the US and beyond, that have enacted some form of official ban on tobacco use. 

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