Ban smoking in public places not "heart too soft"

Jun-ping wang

May 10, 2016

Source: People's Daily - the People's Daily

Ban smoking in public places need timely feedback, by law, by the feedback of hard rules

Recently, there have been two news attention of smoking in public places.

A there is a net friend weibo revealed that a university teacher of jinan while smoking and giving lectures. College officials say, has been reported on the criticism, and temporarily stopped her giving lectures, supervise and urge its reflection. Another is actors in Beijing chaoyang district a hot-pot restaurant smoking room video was posted, length is close to half a minute, on line after the criticism, the article said: "accept criticism and discipline!"

This exposed the plight of our country current smoking in public places, many "smoke-free places". The current smoking is now more than 300 million people, about 738 million non-smokers passive inhalation "secondhand smoke". Cigarettes are still many local public gatherings of "standard". In concept, many people didn't put the public smoking really seriously. Celebrities and teachers in colleges and universities openly smoking, just stand out the problems.

Why smoke to ban? Might as well get banned drunken driving as a reference. Why don't drink and drive, gradually accepted by the public? Some say, is the difference between the result feedback. Drunk driving cause traffic accident, the consequences are serious, feedback to compare directly; And the harm of smoking is a bit like boiled frog, although there are a lot of people die each year from tobacco hazard, but not smoking ill tomorrow today, even among delayed decades, harm of hysteresis, let people ignore or even forget the face of the grim magic smoke.

Say there is some truth, however, fine trial, drunk driving and traffic accident, also not so directly. Have fluky psychology, did not consider himself to drink a glass of wine will be in a car accident. However, he was afraid, afraid of the traffic police to come up with a instrument, said to him, please blow it. This feedback, more directly than crash, "one of the probability is much higher. Once check, the traffic regulations in black and white, how many points the buckle, how fine, clear, and even can give off in! Gao previously was sentenced to prison for drunk driving, free for propaganda "drunk driving into the punishment", than how to brush slogans all worked in the street.

Public smoking bans, also need such a timely feedback, by law, by the feedback of hard rules. Since 2006, "the framework convention on tobacco control took effect in China, but have not yet been introduced a ban on smoking in indoor public places and work places of national laws and regulations. Is anticipated, the "regulations on control of smoking in public places (SongShenGao)" has been on the road. "Seriously" face punishment, this kind of hard feedback to form consciousness in people's mind, so don't smoke in public places and driving don't drink, becoming a social habits.

The People's Daily (May 10, 2016, 13)