World No Tobacco day raises taxes on cigarettes to protect the next generation

Source: Internet
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Keywords World No Tobacco Day
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    May 31, 2014 is the 27th World No Tobacco Day launched by the World Health Organization, the theme of which is "raising tobacco taxes and protecting the next generation". On the morning of May 28, the theme of world No Tobacco Day was held in Beijing in 2014. Tri Li, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, deputy director of the NPC Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association Wang, who representative of the representative office in China Schhode attended the event and spoke.
    Tri Li pointed out that our Government attaches great importance to tobacco control work, especially the youth control of tobacco work. To take comprehensive measures, including raising tobacco taxes, to mobilize the whole society to further protect young people from the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, so that children grow healthily and healthy. Tri Li stressed that the legislation on tobacco control should be vigorously promoted, which is an important measure to control tobacco performance. The Health and Family Planning Department should strengthen cooperation with relevant departments to implement the comprehensive measures of the Framework Convention on Tobacco control, especially to strengthen tobacco control in public places, clear the rights, obligations and responsibilities of the organizers and managers of the premises, and continue to promote the enforcement of tobacco control. To strengthen the knowledge propaganda of tobacco hazards, we should give full play to the exemplary leading role of doctors, teachers and civil servants. Health and family planning departments at all levels to create a smoke-free health and family planning system as a breakthrough, with the relevant departments to promote smoke-free schools, smoke-free institutions, smoke-free enterprises and other key places in the creation of smoke-free environment.
    representative of the World Health Organization representative office in China, Schhode pointed out that raising tobacco tax is a double win, not only beneficial to people's health, but also conducive to economic development, suggested that China's consumption tax to increase the price of cigarette retail. Schhode awarded the 2014 who World No Tobacco Day award to President Wang and Professor Hudewei. The relevant department of the Ministry of Education is responsible for the participation of comrades in the meeting, and to strengthen the school smoke control work put forward the request.
   , the "Protect me, please smoke" video clips and "to support public places to ban smoking, for their own people" Tobacco control public ads. China's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the 2014 China Youth Tobacco Survey results. Experts from the University of California, China Foreign Economic and Trade University, Beijing Youth Legal Aid and research Center and the Capital Institute of Pediatrics have made comments and suggestions on raising the tax price of tobacco, the legal protection of teenagers, and the harm of tobacco to youngsters.
    from the Central Civilization Office, CCP Work Committee, the central State organs of the work, the direct administration, Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Industry and Information technology, General customs, industrial and commercial administration, quality supervision, Chinese Medicine Bureau, Logistics Ministry of Health and the Armed Police Force Logistics Department, etc. And a total of some 260 participants from tobacco control experts, students, the media and representatives of international organizations participated in the event. field activities by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China Health Education Center, the Chinese Medical Association, the Chinese Society for the Prevention of Medicine, China Tobacco Control associationsand China Health Promotion and Education Association and other units jointly sponsored.

 

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