China publishes its anti-smoking plan
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 22, 2012 21:51
China on Friday published a plan to reduce the world’s largest population of smokers as part of a 2005 treaty, without implementing recommendations such as warning labels that include photos of rotten teeth and diseased lungs.
China plans to cut the number of smokers to 25 percent of the population by 2015, according to the plan published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Friday, seven years after the country signed the treaty that recommends the graphic warning labels.
China has more than 300 million smokers, including half the adult male population, and about 740 million people are exposed to second-hand smoke risks, the ministry said. The tobacco industry accounts for 20 million jobs and contributed 6 percent of fiscal revenues in 2010, the ministry said.
Smoking, which is linked to 1 million deaths a year in China, is endangering the labor force, Health Minister Chen Zhu said in April.
China’s new tobacco plan was jointly prepared by the ministries of industry, health, finance and foreign affairs; and the general administrations of tobacco, customs, safety and industry and commerce.
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