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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Life style report. If you are a man living in China and smoke, you may want to stop. That is because one in three of all the young men in China will die from smoking cigarettes or other tobacco products. Researchers reported their findings in The Lancet medical journal.

The report says,"About two-thirds of young Chinese men become cigarett e smokers, and moststart before they are 20 years old. Unless they stop, a bout half of them will eventually be killed bytheir habit."

The researchers conducted two large, countrywide studies on the health ef fects of smoking. Thefirst study took place in the 1990s and involved abo ut 250,000 men. The second study waslaunched only recently and is conti nuing. This study involves about 500,000 adults, both men andwomen. Researchers say that in China, the number of deaths each year resulting fr om tobacco use will risefrom about one-million in 2010 to two-million in 2030. They warn that the number will rise tothree-million by 2050. Researchers say there is no silver bullet to make these numbers go down, meaning there is noeasy answer to make the problem go away.

People need to stop smoking.

China smokes more than one-third of the world's cigarettes. It also has on e-sixth of all smoking-related deaths worldwide.

The story is different with Chinese women.

It seems not many women are smoking in China today. Ten percent of wo

men born in the 1930swere smokers. But among those born in the 1960s, only about one percent smoke. And the ratesof death-by-cigarette among women have also dropped.

But that could change.

Researchers note that smoking now seems more fashionable among Chin ese women. Somewomen think it makes them seem more appealing. Richard Peto is a professor at the University of Oxford. He helped to writ e the report on smoking.He said increasing the price of cigarettes may be one way to reduce smoking rates.

He said that "over the past 20 years, tobacco deaths have been decreasing in Western countries,partly because of price increas es.” For China, he add s, a large increase in cigarette prices couldsave tens of millions of lives. More information about our quoted expert, Richard Peto, can be found on the website for theUniversity of Oxford.

There it says Richard Peto’s investigations into the worldwide health effe cts of smoking havehelped to change "national and international attitudes about smoking and public health." He wasthe first to describe clearly the f uture worldwide health effects of current smoking patterns.

Mr. Peto was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1999 for services to epidem iology. In 2010 and 2011he received the Cancer Research UK and the Bri tish Medical Journal Lifetime Achievement Award.

I’m Anna Matteo.