1、From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestylereport.If you are a man living in China and smoke, you may want tostop. That is because one in three of all the young men in Chinawill die from smoking cigarettes or other tobacco products.Researchers repo
2、rted their findings in The Lancet medical journal.The report says,"About two-thirds of young Chinese men become cigarette smokers, and moststart before they are 20 years old. Unless they stop, about half of them will eventually be killed bytheir habit."The resea
3、rchers conducted two large, countrywide studies on the health effects of smoking. Thefirst study took place in the 1990s and involved about 250,000 men. The second study waslaunched only recently and is continuing. This study involves about 500,000 adults, both
4、men andwomen.Researchers say that in China, the number of deaths each year resulting from tobacco use will risefrom about one-million in 2010 to two-million in 2030. They warn that the number will rise tothree-million by 2050.Researchers say there is no silver b
5、ullet to make these numbers go down, meaning there is noeasy answer to make the problem go away.People need to stop smoking.China smokes more than one-third of the world's cigarettes. It also has one-sixth of all smoking-related deaths worldwide.The story is dif
6、ferent with Chinese women.It seems not many women are smoking in China today. Ten percent of women born in the 1930swere smokers. But among those born in the 1960s, only about one percent smoke. And the ratesof death-by-cigarette among women have also dropped.Bu
7、t that could change.Researchers note that smoking now seems more fashionable among Chinese women. Somewomen think it makes them seem more appealing.Richard Peto is a professor at the University of Oxford. He helped to write the report on smoking.He said increasi
8、ng the price of cigarettes may be one way to reduce smoking rates.He said that "over the past 20 years, tobacco deaths have been decreasing in Western countries,partl
