Anthropology in China's health promotion and tobacco

By the end of the millennium, a million citizens were dying every year from tobacco-related diseases, and if the present smoking rates continue, 100 million Chinese men will the between 2000 and 2050, with many of their family members squandering life savings in desperate attempts at treatment.9 In response, Beijing ratified WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005 and members of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, and local health offices have begun an uphill, inadequately funded drive to help citizens avoid cigarettes.