Beijing has fewer smokers after the smoking ban enforced two years ago

Speakers: Li Ningjing, Sam Duckett, and Lu Sirui

Fewer smokers in Beijing after the smoking ban was initiated 2 years ago. [Photo: Baidu.com]

Beijing had fewer smokers in 2016, the second year of the city's smoking ban, according to a white paper issued on 26^th July.

The rate of smokers aged 15 years old and above in 2016 was 22.3%, 1.1% lower than 2014, amounting to 200,000 less smokers in the city, according to a report on health conditions in Beijing released by the Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission.

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