Open AccessChina wrestles with tobacco control
Author(s) -
Yang Gonhuan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.10.040410
Subject(s) - china , tobacco control , opposition (politics) , environmental health , tobacco use , tobacco industry , medicine , traditional medicine , geography , political science , public health , population , law , politics , nursing , pathology
Around one-third of the world's smokers live in China, which has some of the largest tobacco companies. Weiyuan Cui interviews Dr Yang Gonghuan about the formidable forces of opposition to tobacco control in a country estimated in 2002 to have 350 million smokers.