Table 5.

Deaths attributed to tobacco/total deaths (thousands) for all China, 1990

Cause of death*	Men				Women
	<30†	30-69	⩾70		<30†	30-69	⩾70
Neoplastic:	0/45	146/629	47/250		0/32	11/334	10/174
Lung	0/2	51/98	24/51		0/1	7/37	6/28
Oesophagus	0/1	23/84	8/44		0/1	1/38	1/23
Stomach	0/1	26/142	6/66		0/2	1/65	1/43
Liver	0/7	35/174	5/34		0/3	1/55	1/24
Five minor sites	0/2	11/44	4/21		0/1	1/19	1/11
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc	0/8	66/290	140/512		0/11	19/201	48/552
Respiratory tuberculosis	0/11	13/111	13/53		0/12	2/63	2/30
Stroke	0/11	30/302	15/359		0/8	0/221	0/372
Ischaemic heart disease	0/5	24/164	6/217		0/3	5/123	5/251
Other causes†	0/822	0/745	0/448		0/817	0/568	0/473
Total	0/870	279/2154 (13%)	221/1805 (12%)		0/859	37/1390 (3%)	65/1807 (4%)

The percentages attributed to smoking in table 1 have been combined with the global burden of disease²⁸ estimates of the total numbers of deaths (taking larynx cancer as 5% of lung cancer and pulmonary heart disease as 10% of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). 

^*As in table 1. 

^†No deaths from other causes and none before age 30 are attributed to tobacco.