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walkitoutSmoking in China is highly gendered.
Here are the current US figures:
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm
16% of men, 12% of women.
These are some numbers for China, which probably were not collected in the same way, and are not quite as up to date:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/916348/china-share-of-smoking-adults-by-gender/
But basically, half of adult men in China smoke, and less than 2% of adult women in China smoke. But you can absolutely bet that those adult women in China are widely exposed to cigarette smoke, because there is very little social disapproval of smoking in China.
Outside of China, commentators have widely noted that it really looks like smoking predisposes one to dying of coronavirus. And inside China, they are not even releasing genders of the victims of the epidemic. The doctors who are commenting to western outlets are speculating about hormonal protections in women from coronavirus.
Yeah, right.
If women in China were not exposed to second hand smoke all the fucking time, a lot fewer of them would be dying of coronavirus. I do not even feel the slightest, tiniest need or inclination to hedge this statement. It is a duh thing.
ETA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Tobacco
This is depressing. It will be really hard for the Chinese government to say no to all that revenue.
Here are the current US figures:
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm
16% of men, 12% of women.
These are some numbers for China, which probably were not collected in the same way, and are not quite as up to date:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/916348/china-share-of-smoking-adults-by-gender/
But basically, half of adult men in China smoke, and less than 2% of adult women in China smoke. But you can absolutely bet that those adult women in China are widely exposed to cigarette smoke, because there is very little social disapproval of smoking in China.
Outside of China, commentators have widely noted that it really looks like smoking predisposes one to dying of coronavirus. And inside China, they are not even releasing genders of the victims of the epidemic. The doctors who are commenting to western outlets are speculating about hormonal protections in women from coronavirus.
Yeah, right.
If women in China were not exposed to second hand smoke all the fucking time, a lot fewer of them would be dying of coronavirus. I do not even feel the slightest, tiniest need or inclination to hedge this statement. It is a duh thing.
ETA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Tobacco
This is depressing. It will be really hard for the Chinese government to say no to all that revenue.