Complete implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) recommends policies in China that would prevent almost 13m smoking related deaths by 2050.

China is home to about one third of the world’s smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an enormous public health impact, even on a global scale.

To discuss their research, we are joined by three of the paper's authors, David Levy from Georgetown University, Teh-Wei Hu from University of California at Berkeley, and Andrew Moran from Columbia University Medical Center.

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The potential effects of tobacco control in China: projections from the China SimSmoke simulation model