The worry, says Burke Fishburn of the World Health Organisation (WHO), is that Asia will follow the Western trend, with more women taking up smoking as men quit.
世界卫生组织官员布尔克?菲施布恩说，亚洲将步欧洲之后尘，抽烟的女人会越来越多，而男人会越来越少。
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But, says Mr Fishburn, a bigger worry is the ambitious plan by China's huge state tobacco monopoly to become a big exporter of cut-price smokes to the rest of the region.