This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health issues in China. It pulls together the prevalence pattern of tobacco use in different population and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases. The book pays more attention to review the successes and failures of tobacco control policies in China, including the protect peoples from second-hand smoke, comprehensive banning tobacco advertisement promotion and sponsor, regulation of the contents of tobacco products and low tar cigarettes, warn about the dangers of tobacco, support for smokers to quit, and increasing tobacco taxation and price, as well as monitor and assessment on tobacco use and implement of prevention policy under the international background of tobacco control.

The book analyse and explain the influence factors, especially interference from tobacco industry with public management theory frame for promoting tobacco control policies and looks at lessons learnt to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco-related diseases. It is a helpful reference for experts in public health and epidemiologists in tobacco control, advocators and policy maker.

Autorentext

Editor Gonghuan Yang is a Professor at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. She serves as Director of Center of NCD & BRFS of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. She is an expert of Public Health and epidemiologist on chronic non-communicable diseases. She is also the editor of the Atlas of the Huai River Basin Water Environment: Digestive Cancer Mortality.

Inhalt

Social and economic character in China.- International tobacco industry and domestic tobacco industry.- Introduction and development of modern public health system in China.- The disease pattern in Chinese population.- The tobacco use in Chinese population.- Brief description on main events of related to people's health .- The research finding on tobacco use to health in the international community and affect to Chinese health circle.- Development of domestic tobacco industry in China.- Prevalence of tobacco use in Chinese population.- Quickly development of social economy and epidemiological transformation of health pattern.- Development of domestic tobacco industry.- Estimation of pandemic prevalence of tobacco use in China.- Study on health risk of tobacco use.- Campaign of tobacco control.- China after Epidemic SARS.- The progress of study on health with tobacco use.- The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).- Protect peoples from second-hand smoke.- Comprehensive banning tobacco advertisement promotion and sponsor.- Regulation of the contents of tobacco products and low tar cigarettes.- Warn about the dangers of tobacco.- Support for smokers to quit.- Increasing tobacco taxation and price.- Monitor and assessment on tobacco use and implement of prevention policy.- Trend of social economic development and future of tobacco industry in China.- Forecast on health problems related to tobacco use compared aging and increasing NCD in China.- Can be changed on Youth smoking in Future.- The significance of tobacco control campaign in China: promote the social progress.