Tobacco Control in China

Editor Gonghuan Yang is a Professor at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. She serves as Director of Center of NCD & BRFS of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. She is an expert of Public Health and epidemiologist on chronic non-communicable diseases. She is also the editor of the Atlas of the Huai River Basin Water Environment: Digestive Cancer Mortality.

Social and economic character in China.- International tobacco industry and domestic tobacco industry.- Introduction and development of modern public health system in China.- The disease pattern in Chinese population.- The tobacco use in Chinese population.- Brief description on main events of related to people’s health .- The research finding on tobacco use to health in the international community and affect to Chinese health circle.- Development of domestic tobacco industry in China.- Prevalence of tobacco use in Chinese population.- Quickly development of social economy and epidemiological transformation of health pattern.- Development of domestic tobacco industry.- Estimation of pandemic prevalence of tobacco use in China.- Study on health risk of tobacco use.- Campaign of tobacco control.- China after Epidemic SARS.- The progress of study on health with tobacco use.- The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).- Protect peoples from second-hand smoke.- Comprehensivebanning tobacco advertisement promotion and sponsor.- Regulation of the contents of tobacco products and low tar cigarettes.- Warn about the dangers of tobacco.- Support for smokers to quit.- Increasing tobacco taxation and price.- Monitor and assessment on tobacco use and implement of prevention policy.- Trend of social economic development and future of tobacco industry in China.- Forecast on health problems related to tobacco use compared aging and increasing NCD in China.- Can be changed on Youth smoking in Future.- The significance of tobacco control campaign in China: promote the social progress.