Prevalence of Smoking in China in 2010

Abstract

To the Editor: The Global Adult Tobacco Survey ({GATS)} is a cross-sectional survey of tobacco use among adults that is carried out by individual countries in collaboration with the {U.S.} Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. From December 2009 through March 2010, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted the {GATS} China; all noninstitutionalized persons 15 years of age or older (“adults”) who resided in China at the time of the survey were considered eligible to participate. A stratified, multistage cluster-sampling design was used to select 15,000 adults in 100 counties or districts . . .