Beijing internet cafes difficult to smoke law enforcement agencies are accused of omission

"Caixin Net" (intern reporter Huang Renze) Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other more than 150 cities and regions have promulgated the ban on smoking in public places, but eventually it will inevitably become "dead" embarrassing situation.　　January 5, 2011, the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences affiliated Beijing Oriental Public Welfare legal Aid law firm (hereinafter referred to as Oriental) announced its Beijing Chaoyang, Dongcheng, Xicheng, Fengtai, Haidian and Tongzhou six areas of Internet cafes for four months of compliance and law enforcement status investigation report. Investigation reports show that Beijing Internet cafes smoking phenomenon is more serious, law enforcement agencies generally "soft", almost from no fines and other coercive measures; whether the public security department or the Evin will only violate the duty of smoking in the Internet bar to be punished, even if the law is again illegal or after a warning but do not comply with the requirements of the Internet Also unwilling to impose fines on administrative penalties. Xicheng District Evin also claimed that there was no precedent for imposing fines on no-smoking areas.　　The Haidian District Public Security Bureau also made clear that it would not impose a substantial fine on Internet cafes that do not perform no-smoking duties. According to the 2002 State Council "Internet Access Service Establishments Management Ordinance 32nd", the Internet Access Service premises operating units "use of open fire lighting or found that smoking is not to be stopped" should be warned by the public security organs, can be fined under 15000 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business until　　Network Culture Business license. But Huangjinrong, a lawyer in the east, told reporters: "There is almost no law enforcement", "law enforcement is too mild" and "off the air" in public places in China, smoking laws only become a mere formality.　　The law enforcement Department has not been able to handle the illegal activities, which has become one of the biggest obstacles to the realization of anti-smoking targets in public places in Beijing. Not only Beijing. It is reported that Wuhan City in 2005 issued the "Smoking ban in public places", so far five years of time has not opened a ticket; Shandong Province Jinan in 1996 promulgated the implementation of the "Jinan smoking in public places provisions," clearly stipulates that "inspectors in the scope of the unit to prohibit smoking in public places smokers, shall be stopped and punishable by a fine of 10 yuan.　　"But no one has been punished for 15 years." The investigation report suggested that law enforcement agencies must increase the enforcement of smoking ban in public places, and strengthen the supervision of law enforcement agencies, and to increase penalties, law enforcement agencies should be combined with strategic law enforcement and education to reduce law enforcement costs, and enhance public awareness of smoking in no-smoking areas; The uniform reporting call of law enforcement agencies should be published in all no-smoking areas to facilitate citizen participation in supervision; Finally, government departments should encourage citizens and tobacco-control NGOs to participate in the detection and supervision of compliance with anti-smoking laws and the state of law enforcement, where necessary, The government can even promote its involvement in tobacco enforcement by buying some of the tobacco-control NGOs.