在英国估计烟草每年可致死10万人,而酒精估计只能致死4千人。这种估计可能不太确切。因为人的处境不同,可关系到酒精的消耗,故影响评价酒精对整个公众健康的作用。无论如何,对公众危害最大的是烟草,而决不是酒精。不仅在发达国家是这样,在发展中国家也如此。在中国,男性吸烟的情况最近已与英国相似。尽管两国大小不同,1975年英国和中国有记载的肺癌死亡者各有3万人左右。若用1975年英国的死亡率来予测中国的情 In the United Kingdom, it is estimated that tobacco can kill 100,000 people each year, while alcohol is estimated to only kill 4,000 people. This estimate may not be exact. Because people’s situation is different, it can affect the consumption of alcohol, so it has an impact on the evaluation of the role of alcohol in the public health as a whole. In any case, tobacco is the most harmful to the public and it is not alcohol. Not only in developed countries, but also in developing countries. In China, the situation of male smoking has recently been similar to that of the United Kingdom. Despite the differences in the size of the two countries, there were 30,000 reported deaths in lung cancer in Britain and China in 1975. If we use the mortality rate in Britain in 1975 to predict China’s situation