烟草最终可能导致三分之一中国青年男性死亡

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一项新的研究表明,如果目前的吸烟模式持续下去,烟草将在未来几十年内导致近三分之一的中国青年男性死亡。 研究人员今天在《英国医学杂志》上发表了他们的研究结果。

为了预测中国烟草引起的死亡率,香港大学的林大庆 (T.H. Lam) 和他的同事评估了目前香港吸烟相关的死亡率,香港的卷烟消费高峰期比中国大陆早约 20 年。 该团队研究了 1998 年去世的 27,000 多名 35 岁或以上的人的医疗记录,以及 13,000 多名活体对照受试者的医疗记录。 他们发现,烟草导致 35 岁至 69 岁男性死亡人数的 33%,以及女性死亡人数的 5%; 在男性吸烟者中,烟草导致了大约一半的死亡。

作者总结说,香港显而易见的危害预示着“未来几十年内,中国因烟草引起的死亡率将大幅增加,除非已经吸烟的成年人广泛戒烟。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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