text: Chinese girl nearly dies from cigarette smoke. SHANGHAI 1996-12-06 
   A five-year-old girl in the east China city of Tianjin choked and almost died from cigarette smoke at her grandfather's birthday with relatives smoking for hours in a small room, the Wen Hui Bao newspaper said on Friday. The newspaper said the girl was rushed to hospital and found to be having extreme difficulty breathing. It said eight of the people at the party, including the girl's father, immediately announced they would give up smoking.
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