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Chongqing News

Banning smoking in indoor public places of Chongqing to be achieved in 2020

2019-05-31 09:52:18

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- May 31st is the 32nd “World No Tobacco Day”. The theme for 2019 is “Don't Let Tobacco Take Your Breath Away”. Recently, the theme activity of the 32nd “World No Tobacco Day” and “Chongqing Health Volunteer Action” were held at Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street, Jiulongpo District.

Representatives of the 2018 “Most Beautiful Health Volunteers" and the “Municipal Non-smoking Demonstration Units" were awarded in this activity, and medical volunteer service activities were implemented at the same time, including free diagnosis, tobacco hazard display, and smoking cessation assistance services.

Chongqing takes the harm of tobacco as an important public health issue all the time, and focuses on strengthening tobacco control in public places. Since 2015, Chongqing Municipal Health Committee has been submitting to the Legal Affairs Office of Chongqing Municipal Government a legislative plan for the Regulations of Chongqing Municipality on Smoking Control in Public Places (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") for three consecutive years, which was officially included in the legislative preparatory projects of the Municipal People's Congress in 2019. Therefore, Chongqing has set up a working group of drafting the “Regulations”, which plans to conduct research on legislation in 2019 and strives to introduce it in 2020.

In 2017, the "Healthy Chongqing 2030" Plan issued by the Chongqing Municipal Government also clearly stated that "More efforts should be made to create a non-smoking environment and raise the awareness of tobacco control in the whole society. And in 2020, banning smoking in indoor public places can be achieved.

Up to now, Chongqing has set up 22 municipal non-smoking demonstration units, 398 non-smoking demonstration units of district or county level and 2 non-smoking enterprises. (Translated by Mao Qiao, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei