There is a close relationship between the tobacco epidemic and the lung cancer epidemic, and the occurrence of lung cancer has a certain lag. At present, the cigarette consumption of Chinese residents is still rising, the inflection point has not yet arrived.
The study is expected to increase smoking-related cancer mortality by 2020% in men and 2040% in women from 44 to 53. The disease, disability and death caused by rapid ageing and unchecked smoking will be unbearable in the future, the report says.