Ten cities such as Hangzhou Dalian of China signed and accused of cigarettes to promise

Ten cities such as Hangzhou Dalian of China signed and accused of cigarettes to promise
Cable of January 11 of Hangzhou of China News Service (reporter Li FeiYun) "City smokelessly - -The foundation China of Melinda and Gates accuses of the cigarette second project " The 11th is started in Hangzhou of Zhejiang, ten cities such as Hangzhou, Dalian, Suzhou, Nanning, Nanjing, Changchun, Kelamayi are selected, ten selected city government officials contract and accuse of cigarettes to promise live. The intersection of project and person in charge, former director, Ai MoRui the intersection of university and global chief of health research institute Jeffrey, Center for Disease Prevention and Control of U.S.A., this test the intersection of Pulan and Dr., say at the meeting, " city smokelessly " Lasting not accusing of by cigarette ability of city,be reduced because the tobacco uses causing by hygiene, societying, environmenting and economic burdenning. Jeffrey does in the test in Pulan and says, because the factor such as being different of economic condition and urban living standard and level of education that citizens receive which each city lives in, project and different which each city selected launches. Choose to reduce the second hand smoke of pregnant woman and expose the health education project in the general hospital, maternity child care center, choose to launch the project of the school smokelessly in the school, or take action etc. in the government bodies smokelessly, the project applied to get permission to launch in Hangzhou is " Take action smokelessly in the hotels " . At the meeting, Chen Xiaoping and second, Vice Mayor of Hangzhou, select other nine city of city in charge of officer, sign the letter of commitment on behalf of the urban government where one stays smokelessly, seriously promise to coordinate every relevant department of the government and do the society well to mobilize, and offer essential policy, manpower and financial support for project activity. Gates' China accuses of the Chinese cooperator of the cigarette project " Explore the research and development centre of the health newly " Project officer Yang ZhongMin last reporter, be popularized by citied smokelessly at China, the involvement of the government department will play very great impetus to the project, will especially probably take action on the legislation to some extent in the future, it was this project that popularized the guarantee. Accuse of the intersection of cigarette and data that project offer reveal tobacco use occupy human the intersection of cause of the death and second according to the intersection of Melinda and the intersection of Gates and China, accounts for 1/10 of adult's mortality, (lead to the fact every year about 5 million people in the world die) ,China smoke number exceed 300 million, account for the whole world, smoke 1/3 of the total number of person; The number of people endangered by the tobacco smog in the whole world is up to 540 million, among them the children under the age of 15 are 180 million. Due to being already been up to 1,200,000 people in death that the tobacco was used in the Chinese crowd in 2005; The tobacco was estimated by because the death it accounts for 25% that died in the crowd over 40 in 2003, over 3 million people. It is reported, 17 cities participate in " city smokelessly " in China at present Take action. (End)

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