While many countries in the world try to make their citizens stop smoking and carry out advertisements to achieve it, or prevent the promotion of tobacco brands at sporting events, for example, cigarettes are still a very serious problem in China.
The smoking population in China is 300 million people. To this not inconsiderable number are added some 740 million passive smokers. The Chinese smoke, a lot. Thus, per year the death of more than a million Chinese is registered due to diseases associated with smoking.
It's not that China hasn't taken any steps to curb tobacco use, but it still lags behind other nations. And tobacco brands are much more comfortable in China today than in countries where they were once leaders.
The truth is that China is the largest country in the world in terms of tobacco production and consumption and is the one that faces the most medical problems related to that.