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...social conditions. "If you're an ordinary worker in a Chinese industrial city, there are so many other more immediate threats to your health and well-being that smoking may seem like a relatively minor danger," says Dowell. It may be some time, though, before the Chinese follow the JAMA study's recommendations. After all, as any smoker or ex-smoker can attest, the habit is hardest to resist in times of stress ? and a China in the throes of an epic transition to capitalism looks set to be a very stressful place for a long time to come...
Sources--Good News: JAMA (7/14/99), National Institutes of Health. Bad News: MMWR (7/16/99), JAMA (7/14/99...
Sources--Good News: Journal of the American Medical Association, 5/18/99; Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 5/99. Bad News: JAMA, 5/18/99; American Psychiatric Association meeting
...read an abstract of the JAMA study on the Web, visit www.jama.com You can e-mail Christine at gorman@time.com
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (2/25); Journal of the American Medical Association (2/24). Bad News: JAMA (2/24); New England Journal of Medicine (2/25...