The “Ultimate Prize” for Big Tobacco: Opening the Chinese Cigarette Market by Cigarette Smuggling
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The “Ultimate Prize” for Big Tobacco: Opening the Chinese Cigarette Market by Cigarette Smuggling
China has long been identifi ed as the most important international cigarette market, now and in the future— O'Sullivan and Chapman called China the " ultimate prize " among the world's emerging tobacco markets [1]. Almost two-thirds of Chinese men (63%), and 3.8% of Chinese women, are smokers [2], giving a total of 350 million smokers in China, with more on the way. Young Chinese women are lik...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030279