in order to reduce smoking related disease and death

News - today is the twenty-seventh World No Tobacco Day, the theme of "raising tobacco taxes, reduce tobacco consumption, save lives". WHO also choose this day to Chinese advises the government, China should be raised tobacco taxes to cigarette retail price of 70%, rather than the current 40%. As the National Health Administration Chinese government, National Health Planning Commission on World No Tobacco Day, held a special meeting, in response to the proposal.

according to the National Health Planning Commission estimates, China has 300000000 smokers and up to 740000000 "secondhand smoke" victims. In the controllable risk factors of death, tobacco is one of the most preventable cause of death, but each year as a result of about 120~140 million Chinese death.

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National People's Congress Standing Committee, said Wang Longde, if Chinese tobacco consumption and use the model does not change, in 2020, China and the number of death due to tobacco will reach 2000000 people, 2030 will reach 3500000. But if the government implemented the "tax price linkage" policy, raising the tobacco tax, and improve the cigarette retail price, can reduce part of national consumption and use of tobacco, in order to reduce smoking related disease and death; at the same time, raising tobacco taxes can increase government revenue, and increasing income and medical and health services or other government priorities.

"this is a win-win, is beneficial to people's health, but also conducive to economic." The World Health Organization representative Dr schwartl nder suggestions, China government Cheap Hornets Jerseys (tax) policy makers should substantially increase the tobacco tax, and to ensure the tobacco tax can improve tobacco products retail price.

Estimation of

according to the World Health Organization, in low and middle income countries, tobacco products prices increased by 10%, 5% reduction in the use of tobacco. This effect on young people especially price sensitive: tobacco prices increase, they reduce consumption is 2-3 times that of adult.

Analysis of

USA health economics at the University of Cheap Pacers Jerseys California at Berkeley professor emeritus Hu Dewei is, in Chinese, such as a pack of cigarettes will raise the price of 1 yuan, annual consumption of tobacco can be reduced from 125000000000 bales to about 100000000000 packets, reduce about 20%; financial income can increase 84500000000 yuan.

"in Chinese, such as raising tobacco taxes can save more than 3000000 lives", Planning Commission sponsored Seminar on tobacco control in the national health Cheap Mavericks Jerseys plan, Hu Dewei said.

in fact, as early as 2003, signed by the Chinese government, and in effect Chinese in 2006, "the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control" has clearly suggests, the performance should be aimed at the local and smoking related health goals, raising the tobacco tax. A plurality of "Convention" performance in tobacco tax, has also raised to around 65%.

2009 year in May, the Ministry of finance, the State Administration of Taxation "notice" on the adjustment of the smoke caused by product consumption tax policy, announced an increase in cigarette Cheap Spurs Jerseys production processes (including imports) consumption tax ad valorem tax. After the adjustment, improve the cigarette tax rate to 56%, class B cigarette tax increase to >