Prevalence of Smoking in China in 2010

Abstract

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 in China to take the survey. In all, 13,354 participants completed the survey.