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Tob Control 2008;17:217 doi:10.1136/tc.2008.026526
  • Editorial

Olympic Games in China—a catalyst for smoke-free environments

  1. Lin Yan
  1. Professor Lin Yan, China Resource Center of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; ylin{at}iuatld.org

    The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are not only an international celebration of the performances of supreme athletes, but an opportunity to deliver a lasting Olympic legacy of smoke-free environments to the majority of China’s population of 1.3 billion people.

    Until recently, China’s 350 million smokers have been able to smoke anywhere, at any time and with little awareness of the dangers of smoking to themselves, the people they work with or their families. All that is changing since the Chinese government ratified the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in 2005 and …

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