Everything is More Carcinogenic in China
"Tobacco smoking is responsible for one-third of the total cancer deaths among men." See "Estimation of Cancer Incidence and Mortality Attributable to Smoking in China". Secondary smoke exposure is said to be responsible for more than 11% of all cancer deaths in women.
Do you ever get the feeling that China is just going through what the U.S. went through in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s when epidemiology and mass health panics were all the rage? If so, and if a "redistributional justice" model of tort law can be introduced in China, it may be deja vu all over again for classic mass tort litigation.
