In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
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Question: 3億人の喫煙者という、世界で3番目の喫煙人口を持つ中国は、世界一大きな煙草市場である。

Answer: China, with a third of the world's smoking population at 300 million smokers, is the largest cigarette market in the world.


Question: 組合は経営が、「公衆に向けて良質のサービス提供の対価でコールセンターを攻撃することにかまけている」と述べる。

Answer: The union says management is "obsessed with hitting call centre targets at the expense of providing good quality services to the public".


Question: 地球全体の地表温度は記録上もっとも温かかったが、一方海表温度は1997年から1998年のエル・ニーニョ現象の間に打ち立てられた記録より摂氏で約0.06度低く、過去128年間で2番目に温かい記録と並んだ。

Answer:
The global land-surface temperature was the warmest on record, while the ocean-surface temperature tied for second warmest in the past 128 year period, approximately 0.06 degrees C cooler than the record established during the strong El Niño episode of 1997-1998.