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China will become the largest smoking cessation market

time2012/09/26

In 10-15 years, China will become the world's largest smoking cessation market, involving smoking cessation clinics, smoking cessation drugs, peripheral products, no flame e-cigarette and other related services.


You might think that the idea to be true, but the following conclusions, we may wish to consider the reality of the situation. China has become the world’s largest tobacco-producing countries and consuming countries. Chinese state-owned enterprises China National Tobacco, the international market share of close to one-third, far more than the other counterparts of the international tobacco industry. Cigarette consumption is so huge growth because of the abnormal lack of consumer awareness of smoking harmful to their health, including secondhand smoke is hazardous to the health of children, family and others.


In the past five years, the concern for food safety, environmental protection and healthy lifestyles has become the mainstream mentality of the Chinese urban consumers. All indications are that this trend is in the ascendant. Smoking is harmful to health, people do not always ignore this problem. Although the tobacco company statements and lobbying, but smoking is harmful to long-term health of the medical evidence is overwhelming.


The world to produce 10 cigarettes, of which there are three in mainland China consumed 100 mainland men, 67 smokers, the high proportion in the world after Yemen and Djibouti. Even more startling is that the World Health Organization Judy McKay, a senior policy adviser in Hong Kong said China has 60 percent of male doctors were smokers, smoking rates in the world. 20% of U.S. adults were smokers, which is equivalent to 4,580 million, a figure in China is 350 million, accounting for almost one-third of the total number of the world’s smokers.


Based on historical trends in many other countries, tobacco consumption patterns over time, a substantial decline in consumer understanding of the health hazards of smoking in the deepening, while tobacco control laws and regulations, the duty on tobacco health warnings on cigarette packs and anti-smoking measures are in constant development. China has no reason to become an exception. With the advance of awareness-raising and the smoking ban, more and more smokers choose to quit smoking is a trend.


According to a survey conducted by the United States, 70 percent of adult smokers have quit smoking plans, half of them in the past 12 months, tried to quit smoking, but the success rate was 6%. Especially for long-term smoking of smokers, smoking cessation is particularly difficult, which happens to be promoting smoking cessation clinics, counseling sessions and medication (tablets, chewing gum, nicotine patches, nasal spray, filter, electronic cigarette) market development.