Scientific evidence shows that smokers of "low tar" cigarettes aren't at less risk of getting lung cancer or other lung diseases
A 2009 survey of 212 female smokers in Kunming,
shifu capital of the southwestern Yunnan Province, showed that about 60 percent of the respondents regularly bought "low tar" cigarettes.
The survey, conducted by the Kunming-based Chaoyi Health Counseling Center, found that 80 percent of the respondents had smoked for less than six years.
"The statistics showed the tobacco industry's marketing campaigns targeting women in the past years had worked in China," said Wu Yiqun, deputy director of the Think Tank Research Center for Health Development.
Scientific evidence shows that smokers of "low tar" cigarettes aren't at less risk of getting lung cancer or other lung diseases than smokers of regular cigarettes, says professor Zhi.
On the contrary, "low tar" cigarettes made smokers puff more intensely and frequently which added to the risk, he said.
"In a 2009 survey, we found even many doctors thought low tar were less dangerous,
shifu " said Yang Yan, a professor with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
As tobacco media advertising is now banned by Chinese laws, the tobacco companies have switched their focus to events such as fashion shows, said the report of the Tobacco Control Office.
The marketing campaigns highlighted the need for governments to ban all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship as stipulated in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, it said.
A national survey in 2002 found that smokers accounted for about 3 percent of Chinese women. But the result of a local survey released Monday showed about 12 percent of women in the northern Tianjin Municipality smoke regularly.
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In 2003, China joined the international fight against tobacco consumption by signing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of the World Health Organization (WHO), which came into effect in 2006.
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