Manyun Zou

Sep 13, 2023 | usatoday.com | Jason McLure |Jude Chan |Manyun Zou |Christoph Giesen

This story was produced by The Examination, a new nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigating preventable health threats. It was reported with Germany’s Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media, Chinese-language Initium Media and Austria's Der Standard, and supported in part by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. Chongqing, a booming municipality of 32 million people, was set to join a short list of major Chinese cities that have banned indoor smoking in public.

Sep 13, 2023 | theexamination.org | Jason McLure |Manyun Zou

Two decades after the Chinese public health community celebrated the adoption of a landmark anti-smoking treaty, smoking rates have barely budged, even as they have dropped significantly in some of the other countries that signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO) agreement, known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So what went wrong?

Sep 13, 2023 | the-examination-website.vercel.app | Jason McLure |Manyun Zou

Two decades after the Chinese public health community celebrated the adoption of a landmark anti-smoking treaty, smoking rates have barely budged, even as they have dropped significantly in some of the other countries that signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO) agreement, known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So what went wrong?