Beijing Municipal People's Congress to consider tobacco control Bill seeks to extend the outdoor smoking area | | smoking _ on tobacco control news

Xinhuanet, Beijing, July 26 (reporters Lin Miaomiao and and Ni Yuanjin)-the Beijing Municipal tobacco control regulations (draft), the 25th meeting of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's Congress for consideration. After the passage of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, health and Sports Committee (draft), the deliberations of the report, governance system designed to control smoking in public, smoking in special locations set, and so on, and make relevant recommendations.

Sun Shichao, Director of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, health and Sports Committee said the regulations (draft) identified Government and community governance, principles of management and discipline combined with the tobacco control work, set up a Government-led, aiweihui coordinated law enforcement, health and family planning sectors, Department management, grass-roots organizations play the role of management system.

For considered concern points "banned smoking places range", "views report" think, regulations (draft) followed who tobacco control framework Convention of requirements, provides in indoor public, and work places and public transport within implemented full banned smoking, but provides too general, constraint border enough clear, and specific, proposed "research in not to others caused tobacco smoke against of premise Xia, on indoor work places, for classification management" of recommends.

"Views report" in the other recommends also including: recommends will "sports" and "education" this two class places and medical health institutions in the of "maternal and child health institutions" and "children's Hospital" into outdoor full banned smoking of range; increased in outdoor queued waiting team in the banned smoking of provides; recommends "take smoke alarm, and concentration monitoring, and video image collection, technology means strengthened supervision management"; clear banned smoking places operators and managers control smoking responsibility, especially clear its units head of "first responsibility" Recommended for minors ' education and training institutions should include tobacco control in school health education content.

According to the Beijing patriotic health campaign Committee Office, one of the drafters of the Bill introduce Liu Zejun, Director, Beijing is experiencing "third orgasm for tobacco control" first and second respectively, were launched in May 1996 of the provisions prohibiting smoking in public places in Beijing, ahead of the May 2008 Olympic Beijing enacted the ban on smoking in public places regulations.

"Tobacco continues to be an important social tool, a huge smoking population smoking cessation services policy, special, such as a lack of funding, is the challenge of the tobacco control work in Beijing. "Liu Zejun said.

(Edit: SN123)
18:19 July 26, 2014 Xinhua NET