Table 3.

Smoking Control Mechanisms in China

Smoking control is required for the criterion of “national clean city”

Smoking is prohibited in public places

Knowledge that “smoking is harmful to health” is spread through media

Attend international smoking cessation contest, encourage the building of a no smoking community and no smoking unit

Smoking by teenagers is reduced through laws or local regulations and school-based prevention programs

Doctors are encouraged to give up smoking to raise society's awareness of its harmful effects

Smoking cessation clinic has been set up