Source: Global Times (cn)
Date: 2010-06-03

The days around May 31, World No Tobacco Day, are the busiest
days for the Tobacco Control Office office.

China has 350 million smokers and 540 million who experience
second hand smoke from tobacco use. With China as a member
country of WHO FCTC (World Health Organization Framework
Conven-tion on Tobacco Control) since 2006, Chinese public health
authorities are "pressed" to carry more practical policies on
tobacco control.

Thus China has promised to push enforcement to ban smoking in the
Ministry of Health, its administrative offices and its subsidiary
hospitals by the end of this year. And this is considered "an
important step and a positive example for Chinese contribution on
tobacco control," said Michael O\'Leary, WHO China Representative,
in a Tobacco Control Office 2010 China Tobacco Control Report
release press conference.