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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