{"id":9118,"date":"2011-05-29T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-29T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:05:24","slug":"Smoking-Ban-Clears-Air-at-Beijing-Kindergartens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9118","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Ban Clears Air at Beijing Kindergartens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kindergarteners and other students in Beijing are no longer getting a daily dose of tobacco smoke, whether first- or second-hand, according to a new report from the state-owned China Daily. China\u2019s national ban on indoor smoking, which launched May 1, has been an uphill battle in many of the country\u2019s restaurants and hotels, but in Beijing\u2019s primary and secondary schools, the big breather appears to be working, the newspaper said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Beijing schools implemented the ban earlier in May, following a separate poll that showed 25% of the city\u2019s high school students have smoked, and 9% of students claimed to be addicted to cigarettes, the report said. Prior to the ban, teachers also commonly smoked on school campuses, but now most Beijing campuses are smoke-free, China Daily said, without indicating how many schools it surveyed for the story. \u201cTeachers with the smoking habit used to light up in the school\u2019s public restrooms,\u201d the newspaper quoted Yang Jie, a high school teacher, as saying. \u201cBut now they have to go off campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

China has the world\u2019s largest number of smokers, with nearly a quarter of the country\u2019s 1.34 billion people lighting up. Deaths related to tobacco illnesses amount to around 1 million each year, according \u201cTobacco Control and China\u2019s Future,\u201d a report issued in January by a group of 60 Chinese public-health experts.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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