China News Service, Beijing, May 26 (Reporter Li Chun) "China's Smoking Hazards to Health Report 2020" was released in Beijing on the 26th.

The report pointed out that the number of smokers in China exceeds 300 million, and the population smoking rate remains at a relatively high level. There is still a big gap between the tobacco control goals set out in the "Healthy China 2030" Plan.

　　The report was organized and compiled by the National Health Commission of China.

The report pointed out that China conducted 6 national smoking epidemiological surveys in 1984, 1996, 2002, 2010, 2015, and 2018 respectively, showing the characteristics and trends of smoking prevalence in China for more than 30 years.

　　The results of the survey showed that the smoking prevalence of people aged 15 and over in China dropped from 33.9% in 1984 to 26.6% in 2018.

Among them, the smoking rate of men has dropped from 61% to 50.5%, and that of women has dropped from 7% to 2.1%.

Based on this calculation, there are 308 million current smokers (people who were smoking at the time of the survey) aged 15 and over in China, of which 296 million are males and 11.8 million are females.

　　The report pointed out that compared with previous surveys, although the smoking rate among Chinese population has shown a downward trend, it still remains at a relatively high level. This is in line with the smoking control target set forth in the "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline, that is, the smoking rate among people over 15 years old by 2030 If it is reduced to 20%, there is still a big gap.

　　The report stated that there is sufficient evidence that smoking can cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, various interstitial lung diseases, etc., and increase the risk of respiratory infections, tuberculosis, small airway dysfunction, venous thromboembolism, and pneumoconiosis.

Quitting smoking can significantly reduce the risk of the above-mentioned diseases and improve the prognosis of the disease.

　　"This is not a vague speculation. It is a conclusion made on the basis of exact scientific evidence, so it is worthy of vigilance." In interpreting the content of the report, the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the director of the China National Respiratory Medicine Center, and the world Said Wang Chen, director of the WHO Collaborative Center for Smoking Cessation and Respiratory Disease Prevention.

　　In addition, the report also pointed out that smoking can lead to lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, bladder cancer and other malignant tumors; lead to atherosclerosis, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (coronary heart disease), stroke, peripheral artery disease, high Blood pressure and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; smoking can also lead to type 2 diabetes, increasing the risk of diabetic macrovascular and microvascular complications.

　　In terms of second-hand smoke exposure, the report shows that the second-hand smoke exposure rate of non-smokers in China in 2018 was 68.1%.

Compared with 2015, second-hand smoke exposure has improved overall.

Wang Chen said that 700 million people in China are exposed to second-hand smoke. The long exposure time and the large population will cause serious and prominent health problems and seriously violate the health interests of second-hand smokers.

　　The report also pointed out that the huge health hazards of tobacco cause more than 1 million lives in China each year, more than the total number of deaths due to AIDS, tuberculosis, traffic accidents and suicides.

If effective actions are not taken to substantially reduce the smoking rate, this number will increase to 2 million by 2030 and 3 million by 2050.

　　"Smoking is the first evil of disease, and tobacco control is the best of disease prevention." Wang Chen pointed out that among the major risk factors affecting human health, smoking is the most preventable problem.

"If smoking is controlled, the biggest preventable risk factor that causes human health loss will be removed as a result." (End)