Reduce supply to reduce demand for tobacco

NDO - The viewpoint and solutions to prevent the harmful effects of tobacco are to gradually reduce supply to reduce the demand for tobacco.

According to Deputy Director of the Tobacco Harm Prevention Fund (Ministry of Health) Phan Thi Hai, to achieve the goal of reducing the rate of smokers to 36% by 2030, strong and synchronous policies are needed. These include: increasing taxes; printing health warnings with pictures on cigarette packs; strictly enforcing smoking bans; banning advertising and marketing of tobacco products; strengthening health education and propaganda, raising awareness among people about strictly implementing smoking bans in public places and in the home.

In particular, increasing tobacco tax and price is an effective measure, contributing 50-60% to the effectiveness of reducing smoking, therefore increasing tobacco tax is considered the top important solution to help countries reduce the rate of tobacco use.

Notably, the National Strategy on Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control, the Law on Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control, and the principles of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, of which Vietnam is a member, all demonstrate the consistent policy of our State to gradually reduce the supply of tobacco, in line with reducing the demand for tobacco use.

Allowing the use or expanding the supply will increase the choice of products, which will increase the rate of tobacco use. In particular, allowing the use of new tobacco products will increase the use of drugs, which is very difficult to control, affecting health and social order and safety.

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