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Smoking Among Beijing Women Increases
February 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM
General Health News
The smoking rate among women in Chinese capital was around 10.4 percent in 2004, compared with 8.76 percent in 1997, according to a research sponsored by Think Tank Research Center for Health Development, a government-backed tobacco control organization based in Beijing.
No update was given in its report published on Friday, though Think Tank did say "the smoking rate among Beijing women was still rising,” the Xinhua news agency reports.
Most of the women smokers were businesswomen, actresses, singers and young students who think it's cool to light up a cigarette.
Beijing's overall smoking rate, however, saw a 11.5-percent decline in the past decade, according to the report, based on a 10-year-long research carried out by Beijing's Capital Medical University.
It said the smoking rate among Beijing residents was around 23 percent at the end of last year, compared with 34.5 percent in 1997.
"Beijing's anti-smoking efforts have proven as effective as those of New York City," the report said, "with an annual 1.08 percent decline in smoking rates since a regional smoking ban in public areas took effect in 1995."
It said the absolute majority of Beijingers upheld the ban, and suggested it should extend to more public facilities including workplace and even streets.
The 1995 ban put hospitals, nurseries, primary and secondary schools, theaters, libraries, stadiums, museums, banks, post offices, shops and all means of public transport as smoking-free areas.
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