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Reply to comment by SkullysBones in Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases and kills more than one million adults in China each year from 22 different causes. The study included over 512,000 adults who were recruited during 2004-08 from 10 diverse urban and rural areas by Wagamaga
It's money coming from its own population so for a very economically centralized economy such as China it isn't a question of profits. It's more about social acceptance and the cost price of enforcing control if cigarettes were banned. In a very narrow vision of profit maximising, it would be banned because it would reduce the cost of healthcare for a rapidly aging population.
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