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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
MR SHIPMAN SAID THE INCREASE HAD PRODUCED A MORTALITY RATE 100,000 POPULATION OF 51.4 FOR MALES AND 31.1 FOR FEMALES.
PER
AND
RISING INCIDENCE OF FEMALE FEATURE OF HONG
LUNG
HEALTH
ARE
"THE RELATIVELY HIGH
KONG'S CANCER DEATHS
IS A SURPRISING STATISTICS, GIVEN THAT ONLY 2.9 PER CENT OF THE FEMALE POPULATION SMOKERS," HE SAID.
DEATHS 2,744
IN 51 FOR MALES
1988
AND
"CORONARY HEART DISEASES ACCOUNTED FOR GIVING A MORTALITY RATE PER 100,000 POPULATION OF 45.4 FOR FEMALES."
TURNING TO SMOKING PATTERNS IN HONG KONG, MR SHIPMAN
A SHOWED CONFERENCE THAT A RECENT GOVERNMENT SURVEY DECLINE IN THE PROPORTION OF HABITUAL SMOKERS, FROM 23.3 PER THE POPULATION IN 1982 TO 16.8 PER CENT IN 1988.
TOLD THE CONTINUING CENT OF
"TOTAL
CIGARETTE
CONSUMPTION FIGURES
DOWNWARD TREND SINCE 1981," HE SAID.
HAVE
ALSO
SHOWN
"THE
DECLINE IN TOTAL CIGARETTE ACCOMPANIED BY A TREND TOWARDS LOW-TAR BRANDS, SO THAT
CIGARETTE TAR YIELD LAST YEAR WAS 14.8 MILLOGRAMS PER 17.6 IN 1983.'
CONSUMPTION
HAS BEEN THE AVERAGE COMPARED WITH
SHIPMAN
KONG
WAS
HONG
MALE POPULATION
THAT SMOKING IN POINTED OUT MR OVERWHELMINGLY A MALE HABIT, WITH 30 PER CENT OF THE BEING HABITUAL SMOKERS COMPARED WITH UNDER THREE PER CENT FOR FEMALES,
WHEREAS HE SAID.
"SMOKING AMONG MALES IS SPREAD THROUGH ALL AGE GROUPS, FOR FEMALES IT IS CONCENTRATED AMONG THE OLDER POPULATION,
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30 SMOKE, THERE
"WHILE LESS THAN TWO PER CENT OF WOMEN UNDER HAS BEEN A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE SMOKING HABIT AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS.
IN
MR SHIPMAN TOLD THE CONFERENCE THAT THE EVOLUTION OF POLICY
COMMUNITY SUPPORT HONG KONG HAD, BY AND LARGE, REFLECTED THE OVERALL FOR SMOKING CONTROLS AT A PARTICULAR TIME.
CONTEXT IN WHICH
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"THIS APPROACH MAKES SENSE IN THE HONG KONG THE GOVERNMENT ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO CONSULTATION AND CONSENSUS, SAID.
"THUS IN THE MID-70'S
WHEN
THE ACCEPTABLE, SOCIALLY
GOVERNMENT ADOPTED MEASURES TO REDUCE SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES.
SMOKING
WAS
WIDELY REGARDED LOW-KEY PERSUASIVE
AS
WHEN
"THESE WERE REPLACED IN 1982, ALIVE TO THE HEALTH HAZARDS OF SMOKING, ESTABLISH AND ENCOURAGE NO-SMOKING AREAS.
THE COMMUNITY WAS MORB BY LEGISLATIVE CONTROLS TO
BECAUSE PARTLY
OF THE
SUCCESS
DEVELOPED
NO-SMOKING
OF
MAKING THE PUBLIC MORE AWARE OF THE RISKS OF SMOKING, THERE
MORE AREAS IN ESTABLISHMENT THE
OF
ANTI-SMOKING
1980'S, "THROUGHOUT THE
CAMPAIGNS IN
EVIDENCE ABOUT THE HEALTH
WIDESPREAD SUPPORT ENCLOSED PLACES."
FOR
/MR SHIPMAN