www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

Chinadaily.com.cn
 
Go Adv Search

Health warnings enlarged on cigarette packs, cartons

Updated: 2012-04-02 07:02

By Cheng Yingqi (China Daily)

  Comments() Print Mail Large Medium  Small 分享按鈕 0

Health warnings enlarged on cigarette packs, cartons

A?tobacco dealer?shows the new cigarette package (right) with larger health warnings compared with the old package (left)?in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, April 1, 2012. [Photo / CFP]

Cigarette packages will now be displaying larger health warnings, part of government efforts to discourage smoking.

A casual visit by China Daily reporters to two tobacco stores in Beijing discovered both new and old packs on sale.

"Some tobacco producers changed to packs with larger warning marks, others were still supplying the old packs last month," said a tobacco dealer who refused to be named.

The new packaging standard replaced English warnings with Chinese ones, and requires the Chinese characters to be no smaller than 4 millimeters on cigarette cases and no smaller than 6.5 mm on cigarette cartons.

However, tobacco control activist Wu Yiqun did not find the new rule having any positive effects on tobacco control.

"Using the current warning, it won't work even if you enlarge the words 100 times," Wu said.

The warning reads: "Smoking is harmful to your health. Quit smoking reduces health risk".

"The warning does not include any information indicating to which degree smoking damages people's health. It should be 'smoking causes lung cancer', or 'smoking causes congenital deformity', as such information makes people think," Wu said.

Wu also urged adding pictures of diseased tissue to cigarette cases, which she called "the most economic and effective way of tobacco control".

Sun Shixing, a smoker, said he doesn't look at the warnings at all.

"I know smoking harms my health, but so many people smoke while remaining healthy. On the other hand, since we are consuming so much poisonous stuff, like excessive pesticides, quitting smoking won't evidently change the condition of my health," Sun said.

Forty-two countries worldwide stipulate that pictures should be printed on cigarette cases. Meanwhile, more than 75 percent of Chinese people have no idea about the top three diseases caused by smoking - lung cancer, coronary heart disease and respiratory sickness, according to an earlier report.

"Adding scary pictures would certainly hit the market for expensive tobacco, which has been regarded as a luxury gift, for you cannot give a carton of cigarettes with a cankered lung on it," Wu said.

In 2011, China's tobacco industry paid more than 752 billion yuan ($119 billion) in taxes and handed over more than 600 billion yuan to State coffers.

"That is why it is so difficult to promote picture warnings," Wu said. "Our government should reduce its dependence on tobacco taxes, and count the increasing medical burden brought about by smokers."

China has some 350 million smokers, more than one-third of the world's total. Every year about 1.2 million Chinese die from tobacco-related diseases, Deputy Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said last month.

At a chronic disease seminar held in Shanghai on Saturday, Health Minister Chen Zhu revealed that the ministry is planning to include smoking cessation counseling into the basic service system, and will provide coverage to drugs that reduce dependence on smoking.

chengyingqi@chinadaily.com.cn

主站蜘蛛池模板: 日本免费一区二区三区三州 | 久久精品国产精品青草不卡 | 免费看孕妇毛片全部播放 | 久久精品国产亚洲7777 | 日韩欧美一区二区在线 | 色老汉丁香网 | 久色网址 | 亚洲天堂小视频 | 狠狠色综合色综合网站久久 | 日本亚州视频在线八a | 中文字幕在线免费观看视频 | 免费区欧美一级毛片精品 | 日本毛片在线看 | 成人怡红院视频在线观看 | 午夜手机视频 | 欧美毛片一级的免费的 | 亚洲自拍成人 | 日本亚洲成高清一区二区三区 | 高清国产在线播放成人 | 中文字幕在线观看国产 | 国产欧美久久久另类精品 | 国产成人aa在线观看视频 | a级成人毛片免费视频高清 a级高清观看视频在线看 | 国产99网站 | 国内偷拍免费视频 | 97视频在线观看免费播放 | 日本欧美一级二级三级不卡 | 午夜国产精品不卡在线观看 | 色偷偷亚洲女人天堂观看欧 | 高清性做爰免费网站 | 免费人成黄页网站在线观看 | 在线成人播放毛片 | 国产国产成人人免费影院 | 亚欧精品一区二区三区 | 日韩欧美一中字暮 | 日本免费在线视频 | 精品视频一区二区三区四区 | 亚洲精品天堂一区在线观看 | 日本三级香港三级乳网址 | 99视频免费播放 | 国产自线一二三四2021 |