New study exposes teenagers' easy access to cigarettes in China
New study exposes teenagers' easy access to cigarettes in China
A convenience stand selling cigarettes, beverages, and phone cards -- a familiar sight in urban China that provides teenagers with easy access to cigarettes, Tianjin, April 2005.
Flickr / James Creasman; bit.ly/KhhS4b
May 31 was the WHO World No Tobacco Day. The Pioneers for Health Consultancy Center, a China-based non-governmental organization with close collaborative ties to AHPP's Matthew Kohrman, recently conducted an extensive study of stores in Kunming, a city in the heart of China’s tobacco-growing region, that sell cigarettes to teenagers.