Smoking ban important

Tobacco control is still a hard nut to crack in China. That's why dozens of deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) tabled motions on it at the current plenary sessions.

Of them all, one was particularly noteworthy. A deputy proposed a complete ban on public money being spent on tobacco.

The CPPCC member was also the first to suggest that smoking should be banned in all government offices and other venues.