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Second-hand smoke kills over 1 lakh people in China: WHOOn current trends, one in three young Chinese men will be killed by tobacco, the team wrote in The Lancet medical journal.
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- China to ban all forms of tobacco advertisements by 2011
China, the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer, will ban all forms of tobacco promotion by January 2011, so as to fulfil its comm...
29 Aug, 2007, 11.35 AM IST
- China to ban all tobacco ads by 2011
China, the world's largest tobacco producer, will ban all forms of tobacco promotion by January 2011.
29 Aug, 2007, 10.35 AM IST