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TAPE: EF03/0469 IN_TIME: 23:31:37 DURATION: 1:30 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Beijing, 22 May 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Medium shot of men sitting on bicycles with one man smoking cigarette medium shot man smoking 2. Man riding bicycle with cigarette in hand - zooms in towards cigarette 3. Medium shot of elderly men playing Chinese chess and smoking 4. Close up of men's hands holding cigarettes 5. Close up of face of one man taking puff of cigarette 6. Close up of chess pieces on ground - pull focus to packet of cigarette with lighter on top being picked up 7. Medium shot of man lighting cigarette 8. Close up of hand holding cigarette - tilts up to face as man laughs 9. Overhead shot of man looking down at chess board 10. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mr Yang, 67 year-old retired worker and smoker "Smoking is not good for my health. A lot of people are persuading me to quit. What I'm doing now is to reduce the amount of cigarettes I smoke every day so as to get rid of them gradually." 11. Low angle shot of young man looking at newspaper billboard while smoking 12. Close up of cigarette in his hand 13. Close up of same man smoking 14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mr Mo, 27 year-old smoker "I appreciate their (authorities) concern, but I will keep on smoking, even though I shouldn't." 15. Two people walking along street with one man holding cigarette 16. Close up of cigarette being held in hand STORYLINE: China on Thursday expressed support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday, and said it would sign the treaty as soon as possible. The Convention is the first global treaty on public health and aims to reduce health hazards and the death toll from smoking-related diseases. It requires signatory countries to adopt effective measures to restrict "misleading" tobacco product names such as "mild," "ultra-light," and "low tar," in accordance with their national laws. The W-H-O says smoking-related diseases kill four-point-nine (m) million people each year. Each year, at least one (m) million Chinese die from smoking-related diseases. Sixty-three percent of the adult male population and four percent of the adult female population in China are smokers, with a total number of over 320 (m) million. While smoking rates are declining among senior aged citizens, they are increasing among the youth. China is the world's biggest tobacco producer, turning out one-point-six trillion cigarettes a year.

Source ABCNEWS VideoSource
Title: China Smokers - Reax to WHO's sweeping anti-tobacco treaty
Date: 05/22/2003
Library: APTN
Tape Number: VSAP375202
Content: TAPE: EF03/0469 IN_TIME: 23:31:37 DURATION: 1:30 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Beijing, 22 May 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Medium shot of men sitting on bicycles with one man smoking cigarette medium shot man smoking 2. Man riding bicycle with cigarette in hand - zooms in towards cigarette 3. Medium shot of elderly men playing Chinese chess and smoking 4. Close up of men's hands holding cigarettes 5. Close up of face of one man taking puff of cigarette 6. Close up of chess pieces on ground - pull focus to packet of cigarette with lighter on top being picked up 7. Medium shot of man lighting cigarette 8. Close up of hand holding cigarette - tilts up to face as man laughs 9. Overhead shot of man looking down at chess board 10. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mr Yang, 67 year-old retired worker and smoker "Smoking is not good for my health. A lot of people are persuading me to quit. What I'm doing now is to reduce the amount of cigarettes I smoke every day so as to get rid of them gradually." 11. Low angle shot of young man looking at newspaper billboard while smoking 12. Close up of cigarette in his hand 13. Close up of same man smoking 14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mr Mo, 27 year-old smoker "I appreciate their (authorities) concern, but I will keep on smoking, even though I shouldn't." 15. Two people walking along street with one man holding cigarette 16. Close up of cigarette being held in hand STORYLINE: China on Thursday expressed support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday, and said it would sign the treaty as soon as possible. The Convention is the first global treaty on public health and aims to reduce health hazards and the death toll from smoking-related diseases. It requires signatory countries to adopt effective measures to restrict "misleading" tobacco product names such as "mild," "ultra-light," and "low tar," in accordance with their national laws. The W-H-O says smoking-related diseases kill four-point-nine (m) million people each year. Each year, at least one (m) million Chinese die from smoking-related diseases. Sixty-three percent of the adult male population and four percent of the adult female population in China are smokers, with a total number of over 320 (m) million. While smoking rates are declining among senior aged citizens, they are increasing among the youth. China is the world's biggest tobacco producer, turning out one-point-six trillion cigarettes a year.
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