The widespread tobacco epidemic has become a global problem with serious consequences for public health. On this occasion, wen hui yang, among others, submitted to the general assembly a bill “on the development of a regulation on the control of smoking in public places in yunnan province”. The bill refers to yunnan as one of the main tobacco-producing sites in the country, not only as a pre-eminence of tobacco production and sales, but also as a very large number of smokers and a growing number of smoking among adolescents。
According to the 2012 yunnan disease monitoring point report, the three leading causes of death (circle system diseases, respiratory diseases, malignant neoplasms) were associated with smoking or inhalation of second-hand smoke. In the next 20 years, the proportion of diseases and deaths attributable to tobacco will reach 33 per cent, and the direct costs of medical care associated with tobacco will exceed the tax revenues generated by the tobacco industry。
The bill proposes that in recent years, research data from different professional bodies in my province on the exposure of different groups to second-hand smoke show that 60 to 80 per cent of respondents have inhaled second-hand smoke in public places and workplaces. Among them, women and children are the largest group of second-hand smoke victims。
According to yang wen hui and others, the signing of the world health organization framework convention on tobacco control in november 2003 and its entry into force in our country in 2006 as a joint response to tobacco hazards demonstrates the recognition by my government of the serious health hazards posed by tobacco use and its commitment to participating in the international community's joint smoke control. Since 2006, there has been active involvement from the central to the local level, from official to social organizations, in the smoke control process. In 2013, the nco issued a circular on leading cadres taking the lead in smoking-related matters in public places, which gave a strong impetus to the smoke-control compliance process in the country, with local smoke-control legislation becoming more “well blow-outs” and 16 cities in shanghai, hangzhou, guangzhou, harbin, shenzhen, among others, having amended the original smoking-free regulations in public places or introduced new smoking regulations. The beijing municipal tobacco control regulations, which will be formally implemented on 1 june this year, provide for a 100 per cent ban on smoking in indoor public spaces and set new standards for the development of tobacco control regulations throughout the country, as well as provincial tobacco control legislation in guangdong, hubei and liaoning provinces. In order to promote the health of the people of our province, my province should also speed up the pace of legislation to enact the yunnan regulation on tobacco control as soon as possible. "the kunming daily"
