Since December 1000 Chinese have died from Coronavirus. In the same period 30,000 have died in road accidents!

[Leongsam]

China Traffic Deaths: More Than 200,000 Annual Fatilities In Road Accidents, World Health Organization Says

By Elizabeth Whitman @elizabethwhitty

05/06/15 AT 8:55 AM

More than 200,000 people die in China every year as a result of traffic accidents, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Above, a traffic accident is shown in central Beijing, Nov. 26, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Petar Kujundzic
Every year, at least 200,000 people die as a result of road accidents in China, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The number is more than four times the death toll from such accidents published by the Chinese government.

"Much more needs to be done to spur the adoption of measures to raise road safety, especially with respect to children," Bernhard Schwartlander, the WHO's representative in China, wrote Wednesday in a commentary published in the China Daily, a government newspaper. In China, where roadways are famously clogged with cars, bicycles and pedestrians, more than 10,000 children die annually from injuries in road crashes, and more than one-third of these children are pedestrians, Schwartlander said. The WHO figures didn't take into account the number of children who are injured but not killed.

The WHO's number is a drastic increase from the most recent death toll offered by the Chinese government in 2012, which estimated the number of deaths in road accidents to be 60,000, Agence France-Presse reported. The news agency calculated, based on the official rate of deaths per vehicle in China and the official number of cars in the country, that 34,292 people died as a result of traffic accidents in 2014.

In his article, Schwartlander called for better speed controls, the use of helmets and seatbelts, and several other safety measures, a package that, if enacted would be "a huge step forward," he wrote. "But of course, it is not enough to adopt laws. They must also be properly and rigorously enforced."

One factor contributing to the number of deaths is that in modern China, particularly in cities, owning a car has become a status symbol, the independent newspaper Caixin reported. The numbers reflect this desirability: In 1990, 5.5 million people owned cars, but by 2010, some 70 million did, Caixin reported. Other estimates suggested that every year for the past decade, 15 million cars were added to Chinese streets, the Economist reported. Thus, the more cars and trucks clog the streets, the more accidents are likely to occur, particularly when vehicles are steered by inexperienced drivers.

 

[Leongsam]

Chinese terrified of the Wuhan virus but continue to smoke like chimneys and totally disregarding the fact that lung disease kills way more people than all the nation's viruses combined!

68% of Chinese men are smokers—and millions will die because of it
October 11, 2015

By Olivia Goldhill
Investigative reporter

China is becoming a smoker’s paradise—and a doctor’s nightmare.

Cigarettes are an increasingly gendered health risk in China, according to a new study that reports 68% of Chinese men smoke, compared to just 3.2% of women.
The study of male and female smoking trends, published in medical journal The Lancet on Oct. 8, doesn’t mince words when it comes to health risks. The authors conclude that smoking will cause roughly one in five adult male deaths in China during the current decade. And the fatality rate will rise steadily without preventative action.

“About two-thirds of young Chinese men become cigarette smokers, and most start before they are 20. Unless they stop, about half of them will eventually be killed by their habit,” study co-author Zhengming Chen from the University of Oxford wrote in a statement.

The report, which studied a total of 730,000 people in China, warned that tobacco caused about one million deaths in 2010. Unless smokers give up the habit en masse, the death toll will rise to two million in 2030 and three million in 2050.

A separate Lancet article on how to reduce smoking in China warned that although men are most obviously at risk, they are not the only ones affected. Young women are an attractive target to the tobacco industry, and hold “the allure of increasing sales by crafting appeals based on themes of independence, glamour, sophistication, sexuality, and social acceptance.”

The authors of that study, Jeffrey Koplan and Michael Eriksen of the Emory Global Health Institute in Atlanta, noted that while still only a relatively small percentage of total smokers, young women have increased their tobacco usage “substantially” since the 1980s.

The report also notes several political issues that make it difficult to reduce China’s fondness for tobacco:

Complicating any efforts to reduce the public health burden of tobacco is the fact that China is the world’s largest grower, manufacturer, and consumer of tobacco and has the largest workforce devoted to tobacco farming, manufacturing, and sales. Being a government monopoly, China Tobacco (the Chinese National Tobacco Corporation) provides over 7% of the Central Government’s annual revenue through both taxes and net income.

Widespread misinformation about tobacco in China is not helping public information efforts. Popular myths claim that smoking is less hazardous to Asian people and that tobacco is an “intrinsic and ancient part of Chinese culture,” according to Koplan and Eriksen.

To combat the health risk, earlier this year Beijing introduced a smoking ban in all offices, shopping malls, restaurants, bars and airports. Some four million smokers live in Beijing, smoking an average of 14.6 cigarettes per day, according to Global Times. But an earlier attempt to ban the practice in 2008 was widely ignored and it remains to be seen whether the latest ban will have an effect.

 

[zhihau]

I wonder what’s the number 1 cause of death in China...

 

[Leongsam]

I wonder what’s the number 1 cause of death in China...

Your number one concern at the moment should be your eyesight. The causes of death by ranking are in the graphic I posted above.

 

[sweetiepie]

China Traffic Deaths: More Than 200,000 Annual Fatilities In Road Accidents, World Health Organization Says

By Elizabeth Whitman @elizabethwhitty

05/06/15 AT 8:55 AM

More than 200,000 people die in China every year as a result of traffic accidents, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Above, a traffic accident is shown in central Beijing, Nov. 26, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Petar Kujundzic
Every year, at least 200,000 people die as a result of road accidents in China, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The number is more than four times the death toll from such accidents published by the Chinese government.

"Much more needs to be done to spur the adoption of measures to raise road safety, especially with respect to children," Bernhard Schwartlander, the WHO's representative in China, wrote Wednesday in a commentary published in the China Daily, a government newspaper. In China, where roadways are famously clogged with cars, bicycles and pedestrians, more than 10,000 children die annually from injuries in road crashes, and more than one-third of these children are pedestrians, Schwartlander said. The WHO figures didn't take into account the number of children who are injured but not killed.

The WHO's number is a drastic increase from the most recent death toll offered by the Chinese government in 2012, which estimated the number of deaths in road accidents to be 60,000, Agence France-Presse reported. The news agency calculated, based on the official rate of deaths per vehicle in China and the official number of cars in the country, that 34,292 people died as a result of traffic accidents in 2014.

In his article, Schwartlander called for better speed controls, the use of helmets and seatbelts, and several other safety measures, a package that, if enacted would be "a huge step forward," he wrote. "But of course, it is not enough to adopt laws. They must also be properly and rigorously enforced."

One factor contributing to the number of deaths is that in modern China, particularly in cities, owning a car has become a status symbol, the independent newspaper Caixin reported. The numbers reflect this desirability: In 1990, 5.5 million people owned cars, but by 2010, some 70 million did, Caixin reported. Other estimates suggested that every year for the past decade, 15 million cars were added to Chinese streets, the Economist reported. Thus, the more cars and trucks clog the streets, the more accidents are likely to occur, particularly when vehicles are steered by inexperienced drivers.

KNN this shows that everyone is working hard to die gracefully instead of through diseases KNN

 

[zhihau]

Your number one concern at the moment should be your eyesight. The causes of death by ranking are in the graphic I posted above.

Thanks boss, couldn’t find my glasses in the morning

 

[Hypocrite-The]

The chicoms owns the tobacco industry in ah tiong land soo smoking is encouraged. And have to admit it's a good method of culling the population

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Your number one concern at the moment should be your eyesight. The causes of death by ranking are in the graphic I posted above.

you're the best.................always can get a good laugh at your posts...............

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Chinese terrified of the Wuhan virus but continue to smoke like chimneys and totally disregarding the fact that lung disease kills way more people than all the nation's viruses combined!



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68% of Chinese men are smokers—and millions will die because of it
October 11, 2015

By Olivia Goldhill
Investigative reporter

China is becoming a smoker’s paradise—and a doctor’s nightmare.

Cigarettes are an increasingly gendered health risk in China, according to a new study that reports 68% of Chinese men smoke, compared to just 3.2% of women.
The study of male and female smoking trends, published in medical journal The Lancet on Oct. 8, doesn’t mince words when it comes to health risks. The authors conclude that smoking will cause roughly one in five adult male deaths in China during the current decade. And the fatality rate will rise steadily without preventative action.

“About two-thirds of young Chinese men become cigarette smokers, and most start before they are 20. Unless they stop, about half of them will eventually be killed by their habit,” study co-author Zhengming Chen from the University of Oxford wrote in a statement.

The report, which studied a total of 730,000 people in China, warned that tobacco caused about one million deaths in 2010. Unless smokers give up the habit en masse, the death toll will rise to two million in 2030 and three million in 2050.

A separate Lancet article on how to reduce smoking in China warned that although men are most obviously at risk, they are not the only ones affected. Young women are an attractive target to the tobacco industry, and hold “the allure of increasing sales by crafting appeals based on themes of independence, glamour, sophistication, sexuality, and social acceptance.”

The authors of that study, Jeffrey Koplan and Michael Eriksen of the Emory Global Health Institute in Atlanta, noted that while still only a relatively small percentage of total smokers, young women have increased their tobacco usage “substantially” since the 1980s.

The report also notes several political issues that make it difficult to reduce China’s fondness for tobacco:

Widespread misinformation about tobacco in China is not helping public information efforts. Popular myths claim that smoking is less hazardous to Asian people and that tobacco is an “intrinsic and ancient part of Chinese culture,” according to Koplan and Eriksen.

To combat the health risk, earlier this year Beijing introduced a smoking ban in all offices, shopping malls, restaurants, bars and airports. Some four million smokers live in Beijing, smoking an average of 14.6 cigarettes per day, according to Global Times. But an earlier attempt to ban the practice in 2008 was widely ignored and it remains to be seen whether the latest ban will have an effect.

The Pommie Example. But the Chicom gahmen owns the tobacco industry,,,so better for the ah tiongs to smoke endlessly