1. Chinese Tobacco Control Policies and Its effectiveness
Jiang Yuan
Tobacco Control Office
China CDC
March 20,2011

2. Main Contents Smoking epidemic in China
Chinese Tobacco Control Policies and activities
Policies effectiveness
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Source: GATS

5. Tobacco control Policies
Protect people from tobacco smoke
China has no national smoke-free law. Local laws include many exceptions and enforcement is inadequate.
Health bureaucracy and medical facilities nationwide should be completely smoke-free by the end of 2011.
The government has included the smoking ban in all indoor public places in its 12th Five-Year Plan ( ).
The Ministry of Health issued a set of rules in March 2011 on implementation of the Regulations on Hygienic Management in Public Places that had been issued by the State Council. The rules state that smoking is banned in indoor public places.
Smoking shall be banned at schools, including primary and secondary schools, vocational schools and child care agencies. Outdoor smoking area can be assigned at regular institutes of higher educations (Guidelines issued jointly by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education
Smoking free Olympics 2008
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6. Tobacco control Policies
Tobacco taxation and prices
Government increased tobacco taxes in May 2009 but the tobacco industry absorb the increases, so prices have not risen and the tax increase has not produced public health benefits.
Health warnings on tobacco packaging
Health warnings do not effectively warn smokers about the dangers of smoking. They are text only on a background that is the same color as the rest of the pack, use small type, and communicate just two, nearly identical, rotating messages, which do not spell out specific health consequences of smoking.
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8. Survey Contents Participants’ general information,
Tobacco use (smoking and smokeless),
Cessation,
Secondhand smoke (SHS),
Tobacco economic
Media
Knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions on tobacco use and SHS
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9. China’s warning labels changed in Oct 2008
OLD warning:
Side of pack
Only one message
Front/back of packTwo messages 9

10. Design of the Experimental Study
Canada Singapore Hong Kong EU
Lung Cancer Mouth Gangrene Clogged Arteries
China 2 6 3 10 5
Only
text 9 8 1 4 7
Text +
Picture 10

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12. ITC China Survey: Label change had trivial impact12 12

13. ITC China Survey: Label change had trivial impact
Mauritius introduced larger graphic warnings
China introduced larger text-only warnings 13 13

18. Chinese Government adjust cigarette tax in 2009
Retail price of 21 brand cigarette in 6 cities
2009 tax adjuest
Average price (yuan)
Nominal price
Real price (2007)

19. Average self-reported cost of 18 top brands of cigarettes (Yuan/pack)
Average Price (yuan)
2009 Tax adjust
Nominal Price
Real Price (2007)

20. Affordability of cigarettes continues to increase
Percentage of smoker who think price is a reason to quit by country
Percentage of smoking who said they thought about the financial cost of smoking in the last month 20 20 20

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23. ITC China Project Supplement in Tobacco Control
Released October 6, 2010
11 articles from the ITC China Project team
Variety of research methods
– ITC China Survey
– Air quality monitoring
– Analysis of design features of    Chinese cigarettes and assays    of heavy metals
– Experimental study of the    perceived effectiveness of the    new (Oct 2008) Chinese warnings 23 23 23 23 23 23

24. Chinese Language version of ITC China Supplement
Released April 8, 2011
All 11 articles translated to Chinese by the ITC China team.
BMJ Press allowed us to upload this Chinese-language version of our supplement to the website of Tobacco Control. 24 24