Guidelines to Shake China’s Tobacco Sector
12-08 10:48 Caijing
Compiled by Caijing
staff
From
Caijing Online
Among the signatories to the guidelines, the Chinese
government is the most closely connected to the tobacco industry.
And with more than 350 million smokers – one-third of the
world’s total –
The guidelines are designed to reduce public health
dangers of tobacco and strengthen the implementation of the treaty. Signatories
agreed not to let the tobacco industry intervene in public health policies,
require strong warnings on all tobacco product packages, and prohibit commercial
advertising, promotions and sponsorships by tobacco
companies.
The guidelines ban government partnerships with tobacco
companies as well as official policies that benefit the
industry.
But
Chinese officials have not said how they might separate
the government from the tobacco industry, nor have they released timetables for
all the treaty guidelines.
However, new tobacco packaging rules are supposed to take
effect across
Until now, industry interference in health policies has
been seen as the main obstacle to full implementation of the treaty known as the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. First proposed by the WHO in 1996, the
treaty took effect in the first batch of 40 countries in 2005 and now has 160
signatories.
But
Cui Xiaobo, a professor at the
Cui said concrete progress for tobacco control could be
made if
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