According to research, developing countries have the highest rate of tobacco use. “China was found to be one of the countries with the highest male-to-female ratio of smoking prevalence”: 74% of males and 8% of females were smokers.
Over half of adult males in Indonesia are smokers (57%, but mostly kretek, a local form of cigarette) and China (53% estimated), and nearly half in Bangladesh, though for women the figure is much lower.
In the USA, less than 18% of people now smoke. In Australia, just over 14%.
Smoking over time damages the lungs of most smokers and makes them more susceptible to respiratory infections.
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Smoking and Respiratory Diseases - CDC
Smoking makes chronic lung diseases more severe; and increases the risk for respiratory infections. Genetic factors make some people more susceptible to lung disease from smoking. ... After years of exposure to cigarette smoke, lung tissue becomes scarred, loses its elasticity, and can no longer exchange air efficiently.
Chines have highest amount of smokers....
I thought that might be true. Thanks for the statistic.
Probably the early 2000s I read a right wing article that stated the Chinese live person human organ harvesting industry sold hearts and other organs with the guarantee that the person they took it from was a nonsmoker. Before he could write the next line I said to myself-—Honestly, how many Chinese have you ever seen who are nonsmokers? That was the next line.
Note: When Time gushed over the recently dead Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1997 they cropped the cover portrait to take out the lighted cigarette in his hand.
And the air in a large part of China is like the air in Los Angeles during the seventies.