Smoking status and interventions among children and adolescents in China

Abstract. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death globally. China is the Worlds large tobacco-producing and consuming country, and the burden of death and disease caused by tobacco use will continue to increase .The "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline proposes to reduce the smoking rate of the population over the age of 15 to 20% by 2030. Taxation and price measures are recognized as the single most effective tobacco control policy measures. A variety of interventions are needed for adolescents, including China can carry out tobacco control according to the comprehensive tobacco control policy of WHO MPOWER (monitor,protect,offer,warm,enforce,raise),smoking ban in public places, cigarette sales to minors, prohibiting advertising promotion, raising the tobacco tax, adding health warnings to the cigarette packaging, use new media to expand coverage.