Am J Epidemiol. 2014 May 1;179(9):1071-3. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwu012. Epub 2014 Mar 27.
Smoking cessation is the only way to quickly mitigate the burden of disease and the increased risk of death faced by smokers. In this issue of the Journal, He et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(9):1060-1070) document lower relative risks of overall and cause-specific mortality among former smokers compared with continuing smokers in a cohort in China. For China, an immediate increase in the pace of smoking cessation is essential to avoid a rising burden of smoking-attributable disease in a country with the world's largest number of smokers. These new findings provide nationally relevant evidence of the benefits of cessation. Although China is a party to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the government's implementation of tobacco-control policies as obligated by the treaty has been limited. China needs to be committed to implementing effective measures to promote smoking cessation, a crucial element of both the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and comprehensive programs for tobacco control.
戒烟是减轻吸烟者疾病负担和死亡风险增加的唯一途径。在本期《美国流行病学杂志》中，He 等人（Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(9):1060-1070）记录了在中国的一个队列中，与继续吸烟者相比，曾经吸烟者的全因和特定原因死亡率的相对风险较低。对于中国来说，要避免成为世界上烟民最多的国家，吸烟相关疾病负担不断上升，就必须立即加快戒烟步伐。这些新发现为戒烟的益处提供了具有全国相关性的证据。尽管中国是世界卫生组织《烟草控制框架公约》的缔约方，但政府履行该条约规定的控烟政策的力度有限。中国需要致力于实施有效的戒烟措施，这是《烟草控制框架公约》和全面烟草控制计划的关键要素。
