"Tobacco Threats Environment" has become the world ’s smoke -free day theme expert calling for promoting national tobacco control legislation at the national level

Cover reporter Shao Meng Yang Feng

The relationship between tobacco and the environment has become a new focus of the industry's attention. For the first time on the World Tobacco Winning Day in 2022, the theme was set as "Tobacco Threat Environment". The report published by the WHO on May 31st "Tobacco: Poisoning our Planet" pointed out that each year, the tobacco industry makes more than 8 million people lose their lives, destroy 600 million trees, occupy 200,000 hectares of land, consume 22 billion tons of water. And 84 million tons of carbon dioxide.

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On August 31, at the Seminar of Environmental Protection Association Tobacco Control of Biological Diversity Protection and Green Development Foundation (referred to as "China Green Fair"), from the National Health and Health Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Disease Control Department, and Experts from the tobacco control associations, universities, and law firms have discussed the impact of tobacco on the environment and the improvement of tobacco control legislation and the improvement of judicial systems, calling for the introduction of cigarettes of state tobacco control legislation.

"Tobacco control not only smoke, or the problem of first -hand smoke, second -hand tobacco, and three -handed smoke, the tobacco industry has a significant impact on the entire ecological environment." Zhou Jinfeng, vice chairman and secretary -general of China Green Fair, believes that promoting tobacco control work from an environmental perspective The full chain of the tobacco industry to focus on its impact on the ecological environment is an important part of environmental protection.

As the largest tobacco producer and consumer country, China has been working hard to strengthen the performance of tobacco control. Xiao Lin, deputy director of the tobacco control office of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that it was mainly promoted tobacco control from the perspective of health, but from the perspective of local tobacco control practice, some cities have used environmental concepts.

Nan Yi, an associate researcher at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that second -hand smoke hazards are closely related to the environment. Taking smoking as an example, not just personal behavior, tobacco pollution can cause damage to the environment. Second -hand smoke is not safe to expose. Division of measures such as ventilation facilities, dividing smoking areas, and non -smoking areas cannot effectively protect the people from the harm of second -hand cigarettes. This is also the reason for adhering to the full smokeless indoor smoke.

In 2019, the "Tobacco Control Action", as one of the 15 special actions, was written in "Healthy China (2019-2030)", which proposed that by 2022 and 2030, the proportion of population protected by comprehensive smoke-free regulations reached 30%, respectively. Above and 80%or above. Under this goal, the central and local tobacco -control legislation has been speeding up. Many cities across the country have formulated or modified local tobacco control regulations.

At present, the proportion of comprehensive smoke -free regulations at the national level has exceeded 15%, but there is still a large gap with 30%of the target. Several participating experts said that comprehensive smoking ban in indoor public places, indoor workplace and public transportation through legislation is an effective way to protect people from hazarding to tobacco smoke, and at the same time call for the national level of smoke control as soon as possible.

Yang Jie, a researcher at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)" indicates the direction of national tobacco-control legislation. The practice of Beijing, Shanghai and other cities has made national tobacco-control legislation a good foundation. In the process of advancing the national level of tobacco control legislation, you can learn from the good experience in local exploration, and consider the problems of the harm of tobacco to the human body and the destruction of the environment.

"From treatment to prevention to health, it is actually three levels. We are now chasing health, and tobacco control is very important." Deputy Secretary -General Liu Xuanlin suggested that "health" into all policies from the perspective of legislative.

Speaking of the legislative level to promote smoke control, Hu Dan, a member of the China Green Fair Smoking Smoking Group, said that regarding the draft amendment of the Railway Law, China Green Fair suggested to join "no smoking in indoor public places such as trains and stations."

In addition to strengthening tobacco -controlled legislation, strict law enforcement is essential. Cui Xiaobo, vice chairman and secretary -general of the Beijing tobacco control association, emphasized that if there is no legislation, there will be no way to protect the health of the people. Without law enforcement, no supervision is no management, these tasks need to be supported.

"More and more people are gradually realizing that tobacco is not only endangering health, but also environmental health." China Green Fair said that he hopes that a leading state tobacco control legislation will be born in the near future.

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