This 2015 article published in Lancet says 2/3 of Chinese men smoke and 3% of women. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00340-2/

This 2015 article published in Lancet says 2/3 of Chinese men smoke and 3% of women. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00340-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Here are two excerpts I am basing my summary on: Two-thirds of the men smoked; there was little dependence of male smoking prevalence on age, but many smokers had not smoked cigarettes throughout adult life. Comparing men born before and since 1950, in the older generation, the age at which smoking had started was later and, particularly in rural areas, lifelong exclusive cigarette use was less common than in the younger generation. Women were included only in the second study. Of 302 669 women enrolled in 2004–08, only 3·2% were ever regular smokers, including 0·5% who stopped by choice. Smoking uptake decreased steeply across successive generations of women.