Who: Chinese 80% death | | who died of chronic disease chronic disease _ news

Beijing News dispatch (reporter Wei Mingyan) 9th morning Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, China is facing a great risk of chronic disease. At present, about 63% 's death, died from chronic disease; but in China, more than 80% of the dead, died of chronic illnesses.

She said an effective means of controlling chronic diseases, is tobacco control. The Chinese Government has signed and committed to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on tobacco control, who has repeatedly proposed to the Chinese Government and hoped that China would fully implement include smoking, increasing taxes on tobacco in many countries throughout the world including tobacco control initiatives have proven to be effective.

Tobacco-caused and aggravate chronic heart disease, and diabetes. World Health Organization statistics, in China, tobacco kills more than 1 million people had died, "If the Chinese Government does not take immediate and effective measures to control tobacco, by 2050, the number of tobacco-related deaths will increase to 3 million people", she said.

(Original title: who: China Super 80% died died of chronic diseases)

12:50 on July 09, 2014 The Beijing News