National Health Commission: Promoting national tobacco control legislation | Policy and Law Department of CBCGDF
2021/7/21 15:35:00 本站

On July 16, 2021, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the progress and effectiveness of the Health China action in the past two years. Mao Qun'an, director of the planning, development and informatization department of the National Health Commission, said that it is a worldwide consensus that tobacco has an impact on health.


In our country, the harm of tobacco is still a problem that cannot be ignored. According to statistics, the number of Chinese smokers has exceeded 350 million in 2019, and the situation of tobacco control in China is still not optimistic. There is still no obvious progress in tobacco control in some means of transportation and public places, such as departure ports at airports, railway station platforms, the only passage for passengers, especially the smoking rooms in shopping malls and the smoking areas on green trains, which seriously affect the health of women and children and endanger the physical and mental health of juveniles.


On January 4, 2021, in order to promote the construction of "smoke-free train, smoke-free Olympics", CBCGDF has conducted investigation and evidence collection of k41 / K42 trains passing through 2022 Winter Olympic Games, and filed public interest litigation for tobacco control against relevant departments and enterprises.


The Policy and Law Department of CBCGDF hopes to effectively solve the problem of setting up smoking sets, smoking labels and smoking areas in green trains through environmental public interest litigation. We also hope that the National Railway Corporation will take the responsibilities of safeguarding public environmental rights and interests, fulfill corporate social responsibility, strengthen supervision and management, to achieve a comprehensive ban on smoking for all trains and create an environment for the majority of passengers.


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