Tobacco-control legislation under preparation: report
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BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- A senior legislator said China's top legislature is actively 1 preparing to introduce more tobacco-control legislation, after a smoking ban in indoor public places seems ineffective, the People's Daily reported Friday.
China lacks specialized 2 laws on tobacco control which makes it hard to enforce the bans on smoking in public places, Han Qide, vice 3 chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing 4 Committee, said Thursday at a forum 5 on smoking control, according to the report.
Special research teams have been sent to some developed countries to conduct surveys and acquire knowledge, Han said.
The Ministry 6 of Health (MOH) issued regulations last year banning smoking in all enclosed public locations including hotels, restaurants and theaters.
But Han noted 7 that the warning pictures on cigarette packs were not printed, or printed but not in an eye-catching way.
"Inadequate 8 publicity 9 leads to people's unawareness 10 of smoking-related harm to health so that there is not a high public support to the smoking cessation measures," Han was quoted as saying.
The central government had promised a smoke-free public spaces by including a public smoking ban in its 12th Five-year Plan (2011-2015) last March.
Some believe the whopping taxes and profits created by China's tobacco industry also pose challenges for public smoking prohibition 11.
China is the largest tobacco-producing and -consuming country in the world, with more than 300 million smokers 12 and another 740 million people exposed to second-hand 13 smoke, according to an MOH report released in May.
adv.积极地，勤奋地
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adj.专门的，专业化的
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