{"id":166539,"date":"2013-12-12T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=166539"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:47:10","slug":"china-eyes-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/12\/china-eyes-smoking-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"China Eyes Public Smoking Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the world&#8217;s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/12\/tobacco-production-doubled-china\/\">a twofold increase in cigarette production over the last decade<\/a>. With a looming public health crisis predicted with <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/lung-cancer-experts-call-action-tobacco\/\">more than one million lung cancer patients by 2025<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2013\/12\/11\/china-eyes-smoking-ban\/\">Chinese authorities are beginning to\u00a0look for ways to curb smoking<\/a><\/strong>. From China Real Time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Within the next year, China\u2019s legislators will accelerate efforts to enact a national regulation banning smoking in public places in China, said Yang Jie, deputy director of Tobacco Control Office for the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, at a news briefing on tobacco-related health problems in China. Mr. Yang said China\u2019s State Council, the country\u2019s cabinet, is currently planning the regulation and it is expected to be enacted next year.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0The statement follows the release of a book by China\u2019s\u00a0Central\u00a0Party School, an elite Chinese Communist Party think tank, in recent months urging officials to shake up China\u2019s tobacco monopoly, which is responsible for tobacco production and sales and has the freedom to donate to schools and sell cigarette cartons without pictures of black lungs for warnings. Its authors call for higher tobacco taxes, halting government financing to tobacco companies and encouraging them to find alternative business models.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0But changing the current system won\u2019t be easy. Beijing has said long said it is determined to tackle the country\u2019s smoking problem, but so far has had little success. Cigarettes remain cheap, with many available for less than $1 a pack. The World Health Organization recommended last year that China triple its tobacco tax to 70% to discourage young would-be smokers from buying. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2013\/12\/11\/china-eyes-smoking-ban\/\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/smoking\">smoking<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/tobacco-industry\">tobacco industry <\/a>in China, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the world&#8217;s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen a twofold increase in cigarette production over the last decade. With a looming public health crisis predicted with more than one million lung cancer patients by 2025, Chinese authorities are beginning to\u00a0look for ways to curb smoking. From China Real Time: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":166540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14744,14745,14746,6,5],"tags":[681,4618,8457,641,235,6046,1700,321],"class_list":["post-166539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-sci-tech","category-society","tag-cigarettes","tag-government-officials","tag-lung-cancer","tag-public-health","tag-smoking","tag-smoking-control","tag-tobacco","tag-tobacco-industry","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China Eyes Public Smoking Ban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/12\/china-eyes-smoking-ban\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China Eyes Public Smoking Ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As one of the world&#8217;s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen a twofold increase in cigarette production over the last decade. 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