However, the pace and patterns of change varied greatly between urban and rural areas and across different birth cohorts, with an increasing trend in smoking prevalence among rural men born in the 1990s.
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Trends in smoking prevalence in urban and rural China, 2007 to 2018: Findings from 5 consecutive nationally representative cross-sectional surveys.
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In contrasting to a decreasing trend among men born before 1980, a significant increasing trend in the prevalence of current smoking among men born after 1980 was observed ( p for trend <0.001 for 1980s and p for difference = 0.004), with a considerable increase in rural men born in the 1990s (from 40.2% [95% CI: 34.0 to 46.4] in 2010 to 52.1% [95% CI: 45.7 to 58.5] in 2018; p for trend = 0.007), especially before 2015 ( Fig 2 and Tables B and G in S3 Text ).