Smoking is forbidden in public places, which is the wish of the people. The survey shows that the current adult smoking rate in Beijing is 23.4%, and there are about 410.9 million adult smokers, and more than10.9 million people are deeply harmed by second-hand smoke. There are more than 300 million smokers in China, accounting for nearly 30% of the total number of smokers in the world, and about 740 million non-smokers suffer from secondhand smoke. Therefore, the the State Council Legislative Affairs Office published the Regulations on Smoking Control in Public Places (Draft for Review) on 2010, which is a great progress in China's tobacco control work and an important symbol of the "best era" of tobacco control in China.
The promulgation of "Beijing Smoking Control Regulations" is, to some extent, exploring the way for the implementation of the national smoke-free regulations. In recent years, "the most forbidden order in history" is not uncommon, and local tobacco control regulations have been introduced one after another in various places, but in actual implementation, it has become only "the strictest on paper". What people care about is whether Beijing's "strictest" model can be implemented and copied to the whole country?
Whether smoking can be effectively banned in public places depends on legislation, law enforcement and law-abiding. Smoke-free legislation is a "heavy blow" to the prohibition of smoking in public places, but in the past, due to the double defects of legislation and law enforcement, the result often turned into "empty boxing": in legislation, the legal provisions are not rigid enough, the principles and propaganda contents are many, and the practical operability is insufficient; In law enforcement, the subject of law enforcement is not clear, it can not be effectively implemented, and the means of law enforcement are too soft. The final result is that "a dozen departments can't put out a cigarette." Moreover, "addicts" who smoke in public places abound, and by the time law enforcement officers arrive, they have already "vanished into smoke".
Beijing has implemented the principle of "government management, unit responsibility, individual law-abiding and social supervision" in this tobacco control. Among them, "unit responsibility" is expected to become a great weapon, from supervising mobile smokers to supervising fixed units, strengthening the main responsibility position of legal persons, and units that fail to control tobacco will be punished. On the other hand, tobacco control can not only rely on traditional "staring", "managing" and "following". The regulations propose that managers can use smoke alarm, concentration monitoring, video image acquisition and other technical means to strengthen the management of no-smoking places. The regulations have attracted the attention of all parties, which can make more people realize the harm of smoking and secondhand smoke, and it is a good opportunity to transform China's "tobacco culture".
Pull a "dharma" and move the whole body with one stroke. Tobacco control legislation is a systematic project, and a single law cannot solve all the problems. The six tobacco control measures of the World Health Organization include: monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies; Protect people from tobacco smoke; Provide smoking cessation assistance; Tobacco hazard warning; Ensure that tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship are prohibited; Raise tobacco tax. Any one of them becomes a short board, which will affect the whole tobacco control process. After so many years of efforts, the long-standing problem of tobacco control in China is slowly changing: the advertising law was revised for the first time in 20 years, prohibiting tobacco advertising; Adjust the tobacco consumption tax for the first time in six years to realize the linkage between tax and price ... However, there is still a long way to go to truly implement all tobacco control measures.
"The moment you light a cigarette, you also light the fuse of death." According to research, the average life expectancy of smokers is also shorter than that of the general population 15 years. This year's government work report put forward the concept of "healthy China" for the first time, and tobacco has become one of the biggest "killers" threatening the health of our people. Only by changing from the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer to the world's most active tobacco control country can we help build a healthy China.