Beijing Times: Tobacco Control done it yet

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Beijing Times 

  

  

 


   Individuals often lack self-control, and let the tobacco companies take the initiative to advise smokers to smoke less is tantamount to unrealistic. Therefore, a national and regional tobacco control effectiveness, in large part depends on whether the Government can resolve to develop and implement strong tobacco control measures.

    As the "Framework Convention on Tobacco Control," Parties, our commitment to January 9 this year in indoor public places and indoor workplaces to achieve 100% non-smoking. But today, still no one of national smoke-free legislation. Signing the Convention the past five years, the domestic national smoking rate is not only not declined, the victims of passive smoking also increased significantly. Thus, "China missed appointments, is a foregone conclusion."

   As a smoker, I still think that the key to depend on your quitting smoking. In this matter, the individual is not only responsible for myself, but also be responsible for others.

   No matter how the outside world public opinion, and regardless of how other people look, or even not to mention the regulations and policies, eventually snuffed cigarettes, away from the cigarettes that the person must have been. In addition, even how to persuade others, how the law provides that if a person did not want to quit smoking, he could find a reason to smoke and places.

    But that does not mean that government can leave alone, or simply on the advice from the moral precepts of cigarette smokers to put down, site as "Buddha." In addition to personal factors, corporate responsibility, government action constitutes a tobacco control is an important fulcrum of two other iron triangle. The main purpose of the tobacco companies to make money right, but it is the duty and responsibility to suggest the dangers of tobacco. For government departments, the more necessary to consider the overall situation, balancing, and gradually reduce the harm of tobacco on public health.

    The problem is that people often lack self-control, and let the tobacco companies take the initiative to advise smokers to smoke less is tantamount to unrealistic. Therefore, a national and regional tobacco control effectiveness, in large part depends on whether the Government can resolve to develop and implement strong tobacco control measures. Unfortunately, domestic abuse in this area is particularly prominent, together with related interests intertwined, eventually resulting in defeat the purpose of domestic tobacco control.

    According to the latest WHO report related to, the performance of tobacco control compliance score of only 37.3 points, the score of "Countdown." The reason is that a person lack of tobacco control legislation at national level; the two is that the tobacco industry is a pillar industry, the government is difficult to quit smoking as the benefits, such as the temptation; three; local tobacco control regulations tend to stick raised high, gently down, forming a situation of weak enforcement of legislation. Someone once said a joke: to enact a tobacco control regulations, met to discuss the implementation, the result is a circle of people discussing smoking cigarette dangling from his mouth issues.

    Can be seen, the domestic tobacco control issues in the attitude of it is ambiguous, does not move real swords and spears. If experts said, by "both a referee is players" led by the Ministry of Industry-led State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and other departments to implement the Convention, "has been seriously hampered the conduct of tobacco control efforts." Of course, this is just one aspect of the problem. Should, as foreign, as both have severe strict legislative measures, I am afraid there is some way to go national, but also to the Government can not under this determination.

    As for the specific operation, foreign countries have provided a lot of useful experience. For example: ban smoking in public places, severe restrictions on tobacco advertising; regulations on cigarette warning label must be clear; raise the price of cigarettes, and so on. As long as the implementation of these measures are effective, can play a certain extent, effective tobacco control, tobacco control and thus the formation of national consciousness. In short, shouting tobacco control, the other side gave the tobacco industry and smokers were free to leave a wide space, the result can only be "only heard, but no one down."

    Wei Yingjie newspaper Commentator