World No Tobacco Day, Yunnan launched a one-month publicity campaign

Reporter Zhangxiaoli reported yesterday, in the upcoming World No Tobacco Day, the Yunnan Super Anecdotes Health Counseling Center held a media roundtable meeting, the Tobacco control experts on this year's World No Tobacco Day, the theme of "tax increase", and announced the one-month Yunnan Tobacco Day promotional Month series activities officially launched.

It is understood that this year is the 27th world No Tobacco Day, the theme of the "Increase in tobacco tax" is the hope that governments will increase tobacco tax to be able to reduce tobacco consumption levels, and appealed to individuals and civil society organizations should also encourage their governments to raise tobacco taxes.

"Many countries have been lack of national public places to ban smoking laws, many people of the harm caused by smoking, smoking in public places and other uncivilized behavior, such as not in place, there are more and more tobacco control problems." To increase the tax on tobacco, there will be some restrictions on the behavior of the citizens who are not governed by the administration. "Li Xiaoliang, director of Yunnan Super-anecdote Health counseling Center, said.

Based on China's current consumption level forecast, Sichuan University School of Economics and a United States university did an experiment, according to reasonable data speculated that cigarette tax increase of 1 yuan, the number of smokers will be reduced by 13.7 million people, can effectively save life 3.4 million people, May save the medical expenses 2.68 billion yuan, the tobacco tax income may raise 64.9 billion yuan Yuan.

"Raising the tobacco tax also increases the price of tobacco products, thereby reducing the number of cigarettes consumed by smokers," he said. In addition, tax increases also increase government revenue, which can be used in health care and security. Rome Juan, a professor at the School of Economics at Yunnan University, added.