(Reporter Sun Leqi) May 31 is the 35th World No Tobacco Day.
In a theme activity sponsored by the National Center for Respiratory Medicine, the China Health Education Center and other units recently, Wang Chen, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, introduced that nearly half of the smokers in my country are addicted to smoking and suffer from Smokers with tobacco dependence are less likely to quit successfully.
The internationally renowned medical journal "The Lancet-Regional Health (West Pacific)" recently published online a team led by Wang Chen and Xiao Dan from the National Center for Respiratory Medicine, the WHO Collaborating Center for Smoking Cessation and Respiratory Disease Prevention, and the team of Li Yinghua from the China Health Education Center. Completed "Prevalence and Influencing Factors of Tobacco Dependence in my country: Based on the 2018 National Residents' Health Literacy Monitoring Survey Results".
Wang Chen released and interpreted the results of the study: In 2018, about 183.5 million smokers in my country suffered from tobacco dependence, of which 177.5 million were men; among smokers, the prevalence of tobacco dependence was as high as 49.7%, which is nearly Half of the smokers are addicted to tobacco, and there is no significant difference between men and women, and between urban and rural areas; smokers with tobacco dependence are less likely to successfully quit smoking, and non-tobacco addicts are more likely to quit smoking successfully 2.88 times that of the former.
The first "Map of Smoking Addiction in China" was also released at the event site, reflecting the differences in the prevalence of tobacco dependence in different provinces. Among them, Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places have lower prevalence rates of tobacco dependence, while Qinghai, Shandong, Jiangxi and other places have lower prevalence rates of tobacco dependence. higher ground.