Chongqing plans to achieve smoke free in all indoor public places in 2020

Recently, the 20th National Symposium on Tobacco Control was held in Chongqing. At present, Chongqing has officially listed the regulations on the control of smoking in public places into the legislative preparatory project of the Municipal People's Congress in 2019, striving to submit it to the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress for deliberation and promulgatio in 2020 as soon as possible, so as to realize the comprehensive smoke free in all indoor public places in Chongqing.

According to the monitoring data in 2018, the smoking rate of adults aged 15 and above in Chongqing was 24.8%, down 0.7 percent from last year.

According to the person in charge of Chongqing Health Education Institute, in the sample survey of 3710 junior middle school students in Chongqing, the tobacco use rate (namely the use of tobacco products, including tobacco and smokeless tobacco products, in the past 30 days) was 9.9% (6.9% in China). The smoking rate of junior middle school students in Chongqing (The rate of machine cigarette smoking in the past 30 days) was 8.5% (5.9% in China).

A notice issued by the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government on Notice on Printing and Distributing "Healthy Chongqing 2030 Plan" also stipulated that the smoking rate of people over the age of 15 shall drop to less than 20 percent by 2030.

Previously, in 2017, Chongqing Health Office and Chongqing Civilization Office have launched the city's smoke-free office activities, and held training sessions to help achieve the goal of comprehensive smoke-free indoor public places by 2020.