PARIS: Cigarette smoking will kill about two million Chinese in 2030, double the 2010 toll, said researchers Friday who warned of a “growing epidemic of premature death” in the world’s most populous nation.
On current trends, one in three young Chinese men will be killed by tobacco, the team wrote in The Lancet medical journal.
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