Smoking kills 1 million Chinese every year. That's more than the entire population of Cyprus (~865,000). The World Health Organization estimates that by 2050, smoking will kill 3 million Chinese each year.
Mind-Blowing Facts About China - Business Insider
China has 300 million smokers, half of whom started before age 20. Each year, smoking kills 1 million Chinese, a number that’s expected to triple by 2050 at the current rate of smoking, according to the World Health Organization. Among the more alarming findings of the new survey is that 72.9 percent of middle-school students were exposed to tobacco smoke, and more than half of that exposure took place at school. Although China forbids selling cigarettes to adolescents, more than 80 percent of current smokers say they were never turned down by sellers because of their age, according to the survey.
China's Kids Get Exposed to Cigarette Smoke at Middle School, National Survey Finds - Businessweek