ICRF/MRC Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological
Studies Unit (CTSU) University of Oxford Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford
OX2 6HE, U.K. zhengming.chen@ctsu.ox.ac.uk
The largest study ever undertaken to examine the health effects of tobacco
finds that there are already a million deaths a year from smoking in China,
and it predicts large increases in mortality over the next few decades. This
pattern is likely to be repeated in other developing countries.
