Families with smokers from poor parts of China are 10% more likely to live in poverty than people from the same region who don’t smoke.
A recent study by a Beijing-based research team found over 23% of families with at least one smoker were found be to be poverty-stricken, compared with just over 13% of those without. The survey analyzed more than 2,400 households in eight less-developed provinces in China.
Overall, the tobacco use rate in poor areas is higher than the national average, according to the research released last Thursday conducted by a team from Beijing Normal University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy.
More than 34% of the population in poor areas smoke, co
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Dec 30, 2020