The report released by the Think-tank Research Center for Health Development is titled "Tobacco Control in China from a Civil Society Perspective 2013."
Wang Ke'an, director of the center, says China still faces a lot of challenges in its anti-smoking cause.
"In 2002, the total cigarette production was 1.7 trillion annually. But in 2012, the number has jumped to 2.52 trillion. That is a 50 percent increase in the past decade."
According to data from the National Health and Family Planning Commission, China has a total of 300 million smokers.
Meanwhile some 740 million others are regularly exposed to hazardous secondhand smoke.
Wang Ke'an, director of the Think-tank Research Center for Health Development.
"The latest statistics show about 1.4 million people die from smoking-related cau
