Mexicans to give up smoking? That’s a thought that makes many choke.
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Travelers to such countries as Italy, Mexico, Japan and China (there are many others, to be sure) are often aware that they’re never more than a few feet away from somebody else’s lit cigarette. Not too long ago, People’s Daily reported that one of out every ten minors in China was a smoker, and that in Shanghai, the “shocking” truth is that some 40 percent “of the city’s medical staff are smokers, which has a very negative social effect on tobacco control.” The Chinese newssheet cited a public-health official in Shanghai who noted that “a lot of children are suffering from their fathers’ second-hand smoke, which accounts for 60 percent of all the involuntary passive smoke they inhale.”
admin @ February 24, 2008