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The author:(作者)qqpublished in(发表于) 2014/6/1 10:40:06 Who recommends China increase tobacco taxes in order to reduce the number of smokers
The Beijing News (reporter Wei Mingyan) yesterday was the 27th world no tobacco day theme is "raising tobacco taxes, to reduce tobacco consumption, saving lives." World Health Organization recommendations to the Chinese Government, China should raise the tobacco tax to 70% in the retail price of cigarettes in order to reduce the number of smokers.
State family planning Commission, Cui Li, Deputy Director of health recently said publicly at the Conference, the Chinese Government should adopt comprehensive measures, including raising tobacco taxes, protect adolescents from tobacco smoke.
According to the National Commission of health calculates that China has 300 million smokers and up to 740 million of "passive smoking" victims. Controllable risk factors for death, tobacco is one of the most avoidable cause of death, caused the deaths of about 1.2 million to 1.4 million people per year.
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"Support"
Experience has shown that tobacco taxes are the most effective and most cost-effective tobacco control measures. Current smokers in China did not suffer from economic pressures, the cigarette price increase will effectively regulate people's behaviour.
--Peking Union Medical University, the Institute of medicine, Professor Yang Gonghuan
"No"
Raising tobacco taxes, may induce the tobacco smuggling, will also increase the burden on low-income groups, increase their choice of lower-grade tobacco products, quality even worse, harm more counterfeit tobacco products.
--The tobacco Institute for economic policy research office director Li Baojiang
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Reform is often a conflict of interest, and gaming. To the tobacco tax as an example, experts now propose to increase the specific consumption tax, enabling linkage tax, raise cigarette prices to reduce tobacco consumption. However, consumption taxes is the central taxes, contribution to local finance does not, instead by the tobacco sales were down, causing losses to local taxes. Big tobacco like Yunnan province, naturally not supported. Therefore, study of increasing tobacco duty should be more pragmatic in tobacco tax reform more maneuverability. --President of the Chinese Association of tobacco control, former Vice Minister of health Huang jiefu
Central Government could raise cigarette excise taxes, but that they should be part of the higher cigarette taxes through transfer payments, subsidies, and to reduce revenue losses for local governments, as well as for transferring subsidies tobacco growers, subsidies from tobacco industry transferred to the retraining of workers. --China CDC tobacco control Office
(Original title: who recommends China increase tobacco taxes)
新京报讯 (记者魏铭言) 昨天是第27个世界无烟日，主题是“提高烟草税，减少烟草消费，挽救生命”。世界卫生组织向中国政府提出建议，中国应将烟草税提高至卷烟零售价格的70%，以减少吸烟人数。
国家卫生计生委副主任崔丽日前在会议上公开表示，中国政府要采取包括提高烟草税在内的综合性措施，保护青少年免遭烟草烟雾危害。
根据国家卫生计生委的测算，我国有3亿烟民和高达7.4亿的“二手烟”受害者。在各种死亡的可控危险因素中，烟草是最可避免的死因之一，却每年造成大约120万至140万中国人死亡。
■ 声音
【支持】
经验证明，对烟草加税是最有效、最符合成本收益的控烟措施。目前中国烟民没有受到来自经济上的压力，烟价提高将有效地调节人们的消费行为。
——中国协和医科大学基础医学研究院教授杨功焕
【反对】
若提高烟草税，可能诱发烟草走私，还会增加低收入群体的负担，促使他们更多地选择档次更低的烟草产品，甚至质量更差、危害更高的假冒伪劣烟草制品。
——烟草经济研究所政策研究室主任李保江
建议
改革往往是利益冲突和博弈。以烟草税的改革为例，现在专家提议要增加从量消费税，从而实现税价联动，提高卷烟价格，以减少烟草消费使用。但是，消费税是中央税收，对于地方财政并无贡献，反而会因烟草销量下降，给地方税收造成损失。像云南这样的烟草大省，自然不会持支持态度。因此，提高烟草税的研究应该更务实，让烟草税制改革更有可操作性。——中国控烟协会会长，原卫生部副部长黄洁夫
中央政府可以提高卷烟从量消费税，但应将一部分增加的卷烟税收通过转移支付，补贴地方，以减少地方政府的财政收入损失，以及用于补助烟农转产，补助从卷烟工业转岗职工的再培训。——中国疾控中心控烟办
(原标题：世卫组织建议中国提高烟草税)
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