The biggest fuckwits in the whole world are the Chinese and this applies to both the government and the general population.
Smoking kills 1,000,000,000 people a year. 50% of Chinese males smoke and the women are not far behind. The government has done practically nothing to stamp out this scourge.
Yet there is all this panic and drastic action all because of a minor infection that has only killed only a 1000 odd individuals most of whom were already half dead because of their smoking.
The stupidity defies logic but then the chinks aren't exactly well known for their common sense in the first place.
https://signal.supchina.com/chinas-cigarette-smoking-epidemic/
China’s cigarette smoking epidemic
By
Pei Hao | September 5, 2019
Nearly one in three smokers in the world is Chinese. In 2018, there were nearly 800,000 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in China, and every year, over a million Chinese people die from tobacco-related diseases. Tobacco control campaigns are becoming more serious in China, but massive tax revenues from state-owned tobacco companies and cultural normalization stand in the way.
The global tobacco epidemic kills an estimated
8 million peopleevery year. The proven health risks of tobacco use have led to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control and other commitments from health ministries around the globe. Even though China is nominally on board with the anti-cigarette agenda, tobacco use in China is still widespread and is tightly tied to the culture.
Nearly one in three smokers in the world is Chinese. Over
300 million people in the People’s Republic regularly puff on cigarettes, and Chinese people as a whole buy an estimated 2.3 trillion cigarettes every year.
Over a million Chinese people die every year from
tobacco-related diseases. The most important one is lung cancer, which was newly diagnosed in
nearly 800,000 patients in China in 2018. Mortality rates for lung cancer are disproportionately high in China, and over
75 percent of lung cancer deaths in Chinese men are attributable to smoking. In fact, men are particularly at risk because cigarette use is highly gendered in China:
One study estimated the rate of smoking to be 52.9 percent in Chinese men and 2.4 percent in Chinese women. As cancer rates rise, the overall economic burden of cigarette smoking on the Chinese economy is growing rapidly —
$3.3 billion in 1989, $5.0 billion in 2000, and
$28.9 billion in 2008.