Where is the ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade

Where is the ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade difficulty in the public place?
Staff reporter Li Ying

On January 9, China should fulfill a commitment: This day five years ago, Chinese National People's Congress sanctioned implementing World Health Organization " the tobacco controlled the frame convention ", this convention requires, the contracting party should realize 100% of all indoor workplaces, outdoor public place, public means of transportation ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade after honouring an agreement 5 years. After five years, have we fulfilled the commitment? Please pay close attention to - -

A.m. to pass just 8 o'clock, every large hospital welcome, go to a doctor peak. On the clinic corridor of hospital of some the first, second and third of this city, the patient waiting sits, a middle aged man lighted the cigarette in the hand. Nearby one old man wrinkle, get up brow, seal nose, side carry on the body to smoke man; A mother who brings the child, wave hands and drive away the smog simply, people do not dissuade here from.

"Often someone smokes here. " A lady says, the door of the consulting room is basically all open, the bad smell of cigarette often drifts into the room from the corridor, smoke people very much, the ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade that this lady points to on the wall indicates that asks: "Banning on opium-smoking and the opium trade in why marks into a furnishing? "

It is required and banned on opium-smoking and the opium trade in the public place in an all-round way and fulfilled that " the tobacco controls the frame convention " day the same day to fulfil World Health Organization in China, people may not be strange to this scene, people seem to be already been accustomed to this.

Then, where is the difficulty that ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade on earth in an all-round way in the public place?

The warning language on the cigarette cast keeps inside information from outsiders

The reporter finds, one kind of same cigarettes, while selling at home, are having a line of small characters that " it is harmful to health to smoke " to only pack the side ,While selling in foreign countries, his packaging is positive to draw an enormous human skeleton. It will cause impotence that the same kind of cigarette, printed in the packaging of Hong Kong unexpectedly " to smoke " Sincere advice.

World prevent consumptive disease from compare with sweet spring water of officer of disease federation of lung the intersection of Chinese and the intersection of cigarette and 9 kinds of different packaging at home and abroad, draw the conclusion: Warning that cigarette pack result weakest in China.

He points out, it is both a China brand cigarette, it causes the packaging of the lung cancer picture that the ones that sells in Canada smoke, it is strongest to warn the result, then the packaging of the seal oral cavity disease picture sold in Singapore, packaging of the picture,etc. of printing the foot and festering with selling in Hong Kong, the Chinese cigarette packaging that and the domestic smoker is accustomed to, the health warning message transmitted is weakest: There is not any warning picture in packaging, the characters although have two sentences while warning languages, not striking, and the content is identical - -" it is harmful to health to smoke, it is good for health to give up smoking as soon as possible " ,The more puzzling one is, the warning language on the back of cigarette cast is in English. "Should not transmit the most important health information to the national citizen with foreign language. " The sweet spring water does not think about 90% of the smokers in China understand that English, such a warning is totally invalid.

"Although cigarette cast is small, deemed to accuse of one of the most important positions of cigarette by the expert. " Gan Quan emphasizes, as the smoker takes a cigarette out from the cigarette cast, will get the health to warn information at the same time, one smoke person of No. 20 Branch every day, have more thanth chance see the health sincere advice at cigarette cast in the one year.

Investigation reveal over 70% people think after cigarette of our country pack, show, feel harm of smoking, someone even says that will still make a gift of the cigarette as the present. On the contrary, after they have seen the foreign cigarette cast with sick picture, more than 90% of the persons express that understand the danger of smoking, have produced the will of giving up smoking, and will not make a gift of the cigarette as the present. "The new tobacco in China is packed and has not reached and accused of the requirement that the smoke honours an agreement, still only fresh and magnificent, have not produced the result of reducing consumption of tobacco, " Jiang Yuan says, " this is not strange, because it is designed by State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau. "

" second hand smoke " Cause the great injury to the pregnant woman

In fact, the danger of the second hand smoke is easier to be ignored, therefore is more harmful to people's health. " China will control and smoke the report in 2010 " claim, our country has smoked at present the number of people has already exceeded 300 million, more than 1 million people die from and smoke relevant diseases every year, receive " second hand smoke " Over 500 million people endangering it.

Reveal, over 60% of the women are exposed to the second hand smoke at home according to monitoring the result, the situation is more serious than men. The exposed situation of second hand smoke of pregnant woman exists extensively.

Center for Disease Prevention and Control of China accuses of cigarettes and goes through director Jiang Yuan to point out, the negative effect that the second hand smoke produces to each growth health at stage of pregnant woman, foetus and child is generally acknowledged in medical circle. It causes the pregnant woman to amalgamate the important dangerous factor of disease that the second hand smoke is exposed. 90% of the second hand smoke can detect harmful substances such as the nicotine,etc. in the uterus amniotic fluid of the pregnant woman to expose, it causes pollution to the uterus internal environment that the foetus grows to explain the smog.

The foreign materials verify, the exposed mother of second hand smoke, with having no second hand smoke to expose mother to compare, low 200- 500 grams of neonatal weight grown, odd-shaped incidence is 118- 318 times higher. Live from foetus one under the exposed environment of second hand smoke continuously infancy to the baby, the accumulation that is endangered will show 4- 11 years old when acting on, except that children's early pneumonia, asthma, otitis media, suppurative meningitis morbidity are higher than not having second hand smoke to expose children, tooth disease, leukemia, lymphoma will increase too while having illness coming on dangerously, will influence children's intelligence and behavior to develop.

There is not a part of laws and regulations specially about the fact that the public place ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade

Ministry of Public Health fulfils " the tobacco controls the frame convention " the office of leading group think, the legislation is the key measure of forbidding smoking in the public place. Now, a lot of countries have forbidden the public place that smoked already from public means of transportation, cinema, exhibition hall, shopping center, bank, school, hospital,etc., expand to office premises, place of entertainment of food and beverage of Volkswagen,etc. progressively.

However, our country forbids the laws and regulations that smoke in no special regulation public places so far, relevant regulations appear in some terms and conditions of the relevant laws and regulations mostly, and the content is fuzzy, enforce the law the subject is not clear, practicality is not strong. For example stipulated in general provisions of " Law on Monopoly of Tabacoo of the People's Republic of China " that the 20th meeting of the seventh Standing Committee of the National People's Congress was passed in 1991: "Country and the society strengthen and smoke the propagation and education which endanger the health, forbid or limit smoking in the public means of transportation and public place. "

In October of 2006, Ministry of Public Health established and fulfilled " convention " leading group, and set up and fulfilled office of leading group of " convention ". Entrusted by the State Council, Ministry of Public Health is setting about revising " hygiene management rule of public place ". " regulations " after revising will strengthen the provision about forbidding smoking in the public place.

In recent years, the voice legislating is higher and higher that the public bans on opium-smoking and the opium trade to the public place. 2008 and 2009 " Two Conferences " National People's Congress? Che's camel exhausted Cai Ke of ? 8 are proposed, proposal or motion, demand to make the national public place and forbid the law of smoking, it is healthy to protect the people. The ones that are set up in Sohu net in August of 2009 " are in the legislative discussion banning on opium-smoking and the opium trade partly or all banning on opium-smoking and the opium trade, 84% of the netizens require the indoor public place to completely forbid smoking. Explain the national public place to forbid the legislation that smoked to already from a side get the extensive approval of the society.



Where is the ban on opium-smoking and the opium trade difficulty in the public place?