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Beijing, April 8 - An anti-smoking campaign, "Toward a Smoke-free China," has been launched to get people to give up the habit which could be harmful to health.
The campaign was launched in Beijing on Friday with a fund of US$125 million. The money was donated by the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The two-year campaign will be run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Peking Union Medical College and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "The joint1 scheme will refine and optimize2 tobacco control intervention3 in China," said China CDC director Wang Yu, calling for special attention to the problem of young people smoking. Covering about 20 pilot provinces, the project aims to help combat tobacco use in China by creating smoke-free environments and boosting anti-smoking education. Among China's 350 million smokers4, a staggering 100 million are under the age of 18, according to the Ministry5 of Health. To redress6 the situation, China initiated7 a nationwide tobacco-free-school campaign in 2003. Both students and teachers are strictly8 prohibited from smoking, Wang said. International experiences show that tobacco taxation9 is one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use, said Susan V. Lawrence, head of China programs of the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids, a US-based youth smoking intervention organization. Today's children are tomorrow's future and they deserve top attention and care under the tobacco-free scheme, Lawrence said. A WHO survey shows that tobacco consumption by young people drops by 14 percent when cigarette prices are put up 10 percent. Lawrence said under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, ratified10 at the end of 2005, China is currently considering introducing strong warning labels on the use of tobacco products.
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