The tobacco becomes healthy first stealthy killer The expert appeals for raising the tax on tobacco by a wide margin

The tobacco becomes healthy first stealthy killer The expert appeals for raising the tax on tobacco by a wide margin
The tobacco becomes healthy first stealthy killer The expert appeals for raising the tax on tobacco by a wide margin
In order to meet for 24th World No Smoking Day, " China controlled and smoked the report in 2011 " released in Beijing on the 26th was pointed out, our country consumes the country as largest tobacco producing country and the largest tobacco in the world with 300 million smokers. In addition, 740 million is not that the smoker is endangered by the second hand smoke in our country, the public is healthy in less than valid guarantee of public field income. China's actual conditions Professor Hu Angang, director of research center in Tsing-Hua University say, our country has already exceeded the death toll of the incident greatly because of the death numbers of people of the harm of the tobacco, in 1 million above people, take national death to be population proportion above 12%, become, endanger of our country the intersection of people and healthy and public safe " the first largest stealthy killer " . "At present, accuse of generally thinking, it reduces the tobacco and uses and saves the method with effectual life to raise the tax on tobacco in cigarette circles. The local government of our country can make sure to forbid the tobacco advertisement, forbid the tobacco to support, but the decision of the tax on tobacco of improvement needs central government to make as soon as possible by a wide margin. " World prevents the sweet spring water doctor of senior project officer of disease federation of consumptive disease and lung from saying, "according to the international experience, if you want to push and accuse of the smoke and work and make obvious progress, make smoker's quantity obviously drop, the government should choose to raise the tax on tobacco and raise the retail price synchronously by a wide margin, realize the tax price is linked. " World Health Organization studies to reveal, price every growth 10% of cigarette, 7% of the quantity that 4% and teenagers who can reduce the consumption quantity of the whole cigarette smoke. However, tobacco trade overall burden of taxation and tobacco retail price of our country are far lower than the other tobacco big countries of the world. The statistics show, only 43.4% of cigarette tax rate of our country, and Germany is 70%, Brazil is 74%, Britain is 80%, even well below the average level of the cigarette tax rate 65% in the world. Meanwhile, each pack of cigarettes average price of our country is only 0.37 dollars, and India is 1.65 dollars, Japan is 3.31 dollars, U.S.A. is 4.58 dollars, are all several times even more than ten times of our country. At present, our country accuses of cigarettes to include in the public occasion banning on opium-smoking and the opium trade, knowledge skill,etc. of propagating to give up smoking, belong to " The non- price means " ,Mainly carried out by the Ministry of Health at all levels. The common means of mainly giving up smoking, pass and improve tobacco tax rate and price in the world, reduce the purchase desires of profits and smokers of the tobacco industry. Before this, the Ministry of Finance, State General Tax Bureau have released " notice on adjusting the cigarette products consumption tax policy " in May of 2009, have adjusted the production ink of cigarettes (including importing) Ad valorem duty rate of the consumption tax. After adjusting, the class-A cigarette tax rate is improved to 56%, the class-B cigarette tax rate is improved to 36%. But accuse of the intersection of cigarette and circle think the intersection of tobacco and tax rate of 2009 adjust, blow get great result reducing the intersection of smoker and quantity. American teenagers do not have affair advisor Yu XiuYan of tobacco movement law who says: "Though China raise the intersection of tobacco and tax rate 2009, calculate, account for tax on tobacco proportion of retail price, rise to 43.7% - 48.7% from 35%-40% synthetically, but with the the negative average level of the international tax on tobacco (65%-70%) Compare, the ones that have greatly withdraw the space of tax. " The intersection of China and Center for Disease Prevention and Control accuse of cigarette office Deputy Director Yuan Jiang here to from 6 2007 such as city such as our country to 2010 the intersection of cigarette and price and their the intersection of influence on smoking behaviorally and research too Reveal, it has not made the cigarette of our country retail the level of the flat fare that the tax on tobacco of 2009 is adjusted the obvious change take place, the consumption tax of the cigarette adjusts the rising not causing the retail price, the adjustment of the consumption tax has not influenced the smoker's behavior. (reporter Zhang Jian)


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