Maybe because half of the world's population of humans live in China?

Who are you -- Rush Limbaugh?



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> "Half of world's stomach cancer victims in China
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> BEIJING (Reuters) - China accounts for about half of the global annual
> death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and
> smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua
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> The disease kills about 300,000 people in China a year and there are
> 400,000 new cases reported annually, Xinhua said in a report seen on
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> Only lung and liver cancer kill more people in China, it quoted Jin
> Maolin, a doctor at Peking University, as saying..."
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061206/hl_nm/china_dc_1
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