The project, which you can and should read on the Pulitzer Center’s website, is called “Smoking for the State. The reporting was funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. It was led by a reporter from a new not-for-profit investigative news outlet called The Examination, in collaboration with three guest contributors from other media outlets, Der Spiegel and Initium Media. I hadn’t really thought much about the issue until reading a fascinating investigative report that just came out in the second week of September. Five years ago, in July of 2018, Jeremy and I spoke with Matthew Kohrman about his book on China and tobacco - Poisonous Pandas. Today we revisit the issue of tobacco use in China. Had China’s actual use of tobacco declined at rates comparable to the rest of the world from 2005 to 2020, you would have had 80 million fewer people in the country who would be hooked on nicotine today. But in China, it only declined from 27% to 26%. According to the World Bank, between 20, the rate of tobacco use among adults globally actually fell from 34% to 23%. Going back to China, as I did often before the pandemic anyway, it was just as astonishing just how incredibly prevalent smoking remains in China. One of the things that really struck me when I moved back to the United States from China after 20 years living in Beijing was how few people in the United States smoke cigarettes anymore. Barry van Wyk will be in town, which is a rare treat, as will our Beijing-based editor, Anthony Tao. Please come introduce yourself to me, to the whole China Project team. It’s going to be a night and a day of the most interesting and informative discussions on China that you will hear this year - and great networking opportunities as well. If you like this podcast, you will love our NEXTChina event on November 2nd in New York with a special VIP evening featuring a live Sinica Podcast on November 1st. We cover China with neither fear nor favor. It is a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. We cover everything from China’s fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs, from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim peoples in China’s Xinjiang region to Beijing’s ambitious plans to shift the Chinese economy onto a post-carbon footing. We’ve got reported stories, essays and editorials, great explainers, regular columns, and, of course, a growing library of podcasts. And on top of all that, you’ve got access to all the original writing on our website at. ![]() Subscribe to the China Project to get the early release ad-free version of this podcast every week and, of course, you also get your daily newsletter - the Daily Dispatch - simply the best way there is really to stay informed about China. Kaiser Kuo: Welcome to the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, brought to you by The China Project.
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