Interference decried in tobacco policy
China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-01 08:12
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A student looks at a tobacco control poster at a high school in Chaohu, a city in East China's Anhui province, on Tuesday, which is World No Tobacco Day. Local anti-smoking advocates encouraged students to refrain from lighting up cigarettes and to work together to have a campus free of tobacco. Li Yuanbo / for China Daily |
BEIJING - China can use its government monopoly of the tobacco industry to prevent interference in policies meant to control tobacco use in a country where more than 1 million people die each year of illnesses related to smoking, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said.
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