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Rising cancer rate leads to calls for smoking controls

By Wang Qingyun (China Daily)

10:03, November 28, 2012

A man smokes a cigarette in Beijing in January 2011. [Photo/China Daily]


The high rate of lung cancer in Beijing, which has increased dramatically over the past decade, shows the necessity for stricter control of smoking, experts said.

The incident rate of the disease in 2010 was 56 percent higher than it was in 2001, with an average annual growth rate of 2.4 percent, according to the Beijing Health Bureau.



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