China is bucking global smoking trends as cigarette sales surge in the country, powered by "the biggest tobacco company most people have never heard of." The China National Tobacco Corporation, commonly known as China Tobacco, has a near monopoly on China's tobacco product sales, which has seen the state-owned company grow into the largest cigarette producer in the world despite its relative obscurity abroad
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[35] [36] A 2025 study that analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) concluded that e-cigarettes had preserved 677,000 lifeyears from 2011 to 2019
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