Click here for more info from Raymond in the forum. Looks like Yao will be doing some public service announcements about it soon, all for a good cause. As the article notes…

It is estimated that about 350 million Chinese, or nearly 27 percent of the country’s total population, are consumers of one third of tobacco products around the world.

Each year about one million Chinese die from lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases that can be directly linked to tobacco use, according to the CATC.

Passive smoking, commonly known as secondhand smoke, also put the health of additional 540 million Chinese under threat, partly due to weak enforcement of smoking ban in public places.

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