Why can t China ban smoking?

China is the most populous country in the world, the country with the largest number of smokers in the world, and the world's largest tobacco consumer and producer, with Chinese smokers accounting for 1 3 of the total number of smokers in the world. Sixty percent of Chinese men over the age of 15 smoke. Nearly 5 million people die each year from smoking-related diseases worldwide, 1.2 million of whom are Chinese.

The World Health Organization** says that 100 million young people in China will die prematurely due to smoking.

Despite China's claims that the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be a "smoke-free Olympics," measures to encourage people to quit smoking have not been strong enough. China's **cigarettes** are very cheap, and the minimum ** for a pack of cigarettes is only 3 cents. Although cigarettes are banned for minors under the age of 18 in China, cigarettes are still readily available to children in China.

To make matters worse, when people want some inspiration from the medical sector to quit smoking, they find the reality that nearly 60% of male doctors in China are smokers; 90% of smokers believe that smoking does not cause harm to their body, and even says that it is beneficial.

In China, smoking is considered a social habit, not a bad habit pursued by people who have been outcast. This is very different from Western societies, where smokers are often seen as outcasts by non-smokers. Pan Zhenfeng of the University of Louisville conducted a study and concluded:

In China, smoking plays a very important social function: it helps to build social relationships. When people meet each other, it has become a social custom to worship each other, and tobacco salute is used to show mutual respect and enthusiasm.

Among acquaintances and friends, tobacco worship is not only popular but also very important, and can play a role in strengthening friendships. For those who do not smoke, they often suffer from the distress and even shame of refusing to be rejected, because Chinese culture sees accepting a cigarette as a sign of hospitality and warmth. ”

In today's China, economic development comes first, and everything else is secondary, even health," said Gene Kuttier, a surgeon in surgeon who leads Canada's tobacco and cancer prevention awareness program. Within 20 years, China is likely to be the country with the highest number of deaths due to smoking in the world. ”

Personal opinion: No amount of examples can be better than the effect of a person's willpower and determination. Smoking ban is a very difficult task, and it requires more than just coercive force, but also needs to start from the individual to achieve a real anti-smoking effect.

Chinese have the largest population and the largest consumer group, and the topic of smoking ban - health is not advocated in a day or two, smoking ban starts with you and me.

Besides, there is no national explicit ban on smoking What's more, if there are more smokers, there will be more national taxes, and China will never be able to ban smoking

Legal analysis: China's tobacco monopoly system ensures that there is a corresponding supervision and management mechanism for cigarettes from the planting of tobacco leaves to the final delivery of each box of cigarettes to the hands of consumers, so as to ensure the quality of cigarettes. Inferior products (the harm of fake cigarettes and how to report them) are always more harmful than high-quality products, and it is just because of this that only then can we say that smoking is not prohibited and we are responsible for the health of the majority of smokers.

Legal basis: Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Administration of Sanitation in Public Places Article 10 Smoking is prohibited in indoor public places. Operators of public places shall set up conspicuous warnings and signs prohibiting smoking.

Smoking areas in outdoor public places must not be located on pedestrian walkways. Cigarette vending machines are not allowed in public places. Operators of public places shall carry out publicity on the dangers of smoking to health, and appoint full-time (part-time) personnel to discourage smokers from entering and rotting.

1. Affecting taxation, the tobacco industry is a major profit and tax player. The taxes levied by the tobacco industry are notoriously high, with high taxes of 45% to 55%. The annual tax payment accounts for 8% of the state's fiscal revenue, and more than 10% in the first two years, which is almost equal to the military expenditure.

Without high revenues, our medical environment, educational resources, infrastructure, and national army will not be guaranteed.

2. The tobacco industry is opposed, and the tobacco control association has been playing with the tobacco industry for many years, but the words "smoking is harmful to health" have come from scratch, from small to large.

3. The ban on smoking will produce a large number of unemployed people, and the tobacco industry chain and related industries will employ a large number of people.

4. Other social problems will arise.

We are still a rising country, and before we are not developed enough, we should thank tobacco for the peace and contentment that tobacco has brought to our people. Smoking is harmful to health, and quitting smoking can reduce the harm to health; Literally, smoking is only physically harmful. But we can't deny all the credits spiritually and socially.

Everything has its own two sides, there are advantages and disadvantages, and we should look at the essence of things through phenomena.