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People of all ages smoke.
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As many as 540 million Chinese people are exsposed to second hand smoke (SHS). 180 million are under the age 15. Women and children are most vulnerable to (SHS).

30% of the worlds cigarettes are consumed by Chinese people.

1.2 million people die every year in China because of smoking.

in 2010 the people of China spent 70 billion yuan ( one dollar ) on cigarettes.

The number of Chinese smokers above the age 15 has reached 300 million. accounting for 28.1 percent of the target population. about 38% of Chinese suffer from second hand smoking every day.

kids in China start smoking at the age 15.
 * __**Female and Male smokers**__ ||
 * [[image:http://www.statistics.gov.uk/images/charts/466a.gif caption="This is a graph showing Current cigarette smoking: by ethnic group and sex, 1999, England"]] ||

__**This chart was made in 1999.**__

WORLD CIGARETTE PRODUCTION

__**in 2004 China consumed 1/3 of 5,530,000,000 cigarettes which is - 1,843,333,333.33**__
 * 1950 || 1,686 billion ||
 * 1960 || 2,150 billion ||
 * 1970 || 3,112 billion ||
 * 1980 || 4,388 billion ||
 * 1990 || 5,419 billion ||
 * 1991 || 5,351 billion ||
 * 1992 || 5,363 billion ||
 * 1993 || 5,300 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">1994 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,478 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">1995 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,599 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">1996 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,680 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">1997 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,633 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">1998 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,581 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">1999 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,554 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">2000 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,609 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">2001 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,643 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">2002 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,602 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">2003 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,662 billion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">2004 || <span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;">5,530 billion (prelim.) ||

__**Terms:**__


 * Second Hand Smoking (SHS)** - Second Hand Smoking comes from being around someone who is smoking.The smoke is inhaled by the person who isn't smoking. This can cause harm to all involved, especially around babies and small children. anyone who is sick can also be effected by Second Hand Smoking.


 * Cigarettes -** a clynical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually rapped in thin white paper.


 * Cigar -** a more or less clynindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any various langths, thinknesses, degrees of straightness,ect. usually rapped in a tobacco leaf.


 * Tobacco -** any of the several plants belonging to the genus nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one of those species, as N tabacom, whoes leafs are prepared for smoking or chewing or as snuff.


 * Snuff -** to draw powdered tobacco into the nostrils.

Many people find it funny to watch little kids smoke. But most don’t. Alot of people don't care if their kids smoke but they don't encurage it either.
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