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To the Editor.—In the article on the tobacco epidemic in China by Dr Chen and colleagues,¹ the finding that among middle-aged Shanghai men one fifth of all deaths during the 1980s were due to smoking is alarming. Shanghai is the most cosmopolitan city in China; all new fashions and trends have their start in Shanghai. Will this serve as a warning of what may come for the rest of China in the next millennium?

Tsung O. Cheng, MD
George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, DC

1. Chen Z-M, Xu Z, Collins R, Li W-X, Peto R. Early health effects of the emerging tobacco epidemic in China: a 16-year prospective study. JAMA. 1997;278:1500-1504. FREE FULL TEXT

To the Editor.—Dr Lam and colleagues¹ and Dr Chen and colleagues² report striking data that quantify the impact of tobacco use on smoking-related mortality in China. These generally well-designed studies have a deficiency in research methods that is common to virtually all scientific reports of smoking-related disease statistics: they use an inaccurate and potentially misleading categorization of smoking status.

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