On May 26, 2021, the Policy and Law Department of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) noted that the National Health Commission and the WHO representative in China jointly released the " China Report on the Health Hazards of Smoking 2020". The report shows that the number of smokers in China exceeds 300 million, and the smoking rate among people aged 15 and above is 26.6%, among which the male smoking rate is as high as 50.5%. Tobacco kills more than one million people a year in our country, and without effective action, this is expected to rise to two million a year by 2030 and three million a year by 2050.
In 2019, the Policy and Law Department of CBCGDF filed China's first environmental public interest lawsuit on tobacco control in indoor public places to Baoding Intermediate People's Court. In 2021, it filed the first environmental public interest lawsuit on the smoke-free train and smoke-free Olympic Games to Beijing Fourth Intermediate People's Court (B.F.I.P.C.) after the official implementation of the Civil Code.
The Policy and Law Department hopes to promote the indoor environment into the scope of environmental protection law by filing and judging the first environmental public interest lawsuit on tobacco control in indoor public places.
At current indoor environment has not yet been clearly written in the environmental protection law. It is suggested that the state should include the indoor environment as one of the "environment" elements in the revision of environmental laws so that the indoor environment, especially the pollution of public places, including smoking, will be relieved and regulated by the relevant systems of environmental laws.
Similarly, in the case of smoke-free train and smoke-free Olympic Games, the Green Society Political Research Office hopes to raise the issue of smoking control on green trains again through public participation and effectively solve the problems of setting up smoke sets and smoking signs on green trains through environmental public interest litigation.
Translator/Syying
Original chinese article:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yJqfH1u9NnJJDoqFTjkzzw
Contribution
https://www.paypal.me/CBCGDFChina
http://www.cbcgdf.org/English/ConfirmDonaTion/0.html