At present, the health level of our people is still low, and bad living habits still exist seriously. Taking smoking as an example, it is estimated that among the annual deaths in developed countries, 6.5438+0.4 million people are caused by lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other lung diseases caused by smoking. However, in recent years, the smoking rate in these countries has been declining, and the incidence of diseases such as lung cancer has also declined. However, the number of smokers in China shows a strong upward trend. It is estimated that more than 200 million men and more than 24 million women smoke. The death toll of lung cancer has risen and surpassed other malignant tumors, ranking first, accounting for 26.2% of the death toll of 9 major cancers. At this rate, by 2005, the number of people who die of various diseases caused by smoking in China will reach more than 2 million each year. More importantly, drugs have penetrated into many areas of our country in recent years, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of illegal drug addicts. The trend of keeping dogs has become more and more popular recently. It is estimated that there are 654.38+0.2 billion dogs in China, and rabies has also started. At present, tens of thousands of people die of rabies every year. As for alcoholism and cirrhosis caused by alcoholism; Sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS epidemic caused by sexual flooding; Malnutrition and obesity caused by unreasonable eating habits; Psychosomatic diseases of cardiovascular system, digestive system and nervous system induced by mental stress and psychological imbalance are well known. These are the concrete manifestations of modern "lifestyle diseases".
Because modern "lifestyle diseases" are non-infectious, the harm to people is slowly progressing. Often not seriously concerned by people. Because the occurrence of such diseases is closely related to the progress of human civilization and living habits, some people call them "civilized diseases" or "habitual diseases". In short, the causes of these diseases mainly come from unscientific and unsanitary lifestyles, such as bad eating habits or nutritional structure, unreasonable lifestyles, or bad hobbies such as tobacco, alcohol and gambling, improper use of household appliances, etc.