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New study exposes teenagers' easy access to cigarettes in China

CigaretteConvenienceStand LOGO A convenience stand selling cigarettes, beverages, and phone cards -- a familiar sight in urban China that provides teenagers with easy access to cigarettes, Tianjin, April 2005.
May 31 was the WHO World No Tobacco Day. The Pioneers for Health Consultancy Center, a China-based non-governmental organization with close collaborative ties to AHPP's Matthew Kohrman, recently conducted an extensive study of stores in Kunming, a city in the heart of China’s tobacco-growing region, that sell cigarettes to teenagers.
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