China failing to stamp out smoking

China has been doing a poor job of curbing smoking and protecting its people from the "silent killer", according to a latest report by an outspoken civil society committed to tobacco and smoking control.

The annual report - Tobacco Control in China from A Civil Society Perspective 2013 - was compiled by the organization ThinkTank and found that the production turnover of cigarettes on the mainland had increased by nearly 50 percent over the past decade.

The Chinese government signed the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 10 years ago, vowing to curb tobacco use, said Wu Yiqun, deputy director of ThinkTank.