Blog Tag - Smoking Ban

Beijing’s Smoking Rate Falls Under 20% For The First Time
Beijing’s attempts to snuff out smoking continue to pay dividends, with the percentage of people over the age of 15 who smoke dropping to an all-time...
Throwback Thursday: Five Years Later, Beijing Sees Mixed Success With Tobacco Control Policies
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
WeChat account joins battle against smoking in Beijing
Despite its appearance as a paradise for smokers, over the years Beijing has joined a number of Chinese cities in attempting to ban the act of ...
DP Beijing Butts Out: Smoking Ban Results in 200,000 Fewer Smokers
While Beijing residents accustomed to smoky restaurants, bars, and other hazy interiors doubted that the city's latest ban on lighting up would have...
World Health Organization Calls for National Smoke-Free Law Ahead of World No Tobacco Day
As the first anniversary of Beijing's indoor tobacco ban, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for the success of the Beijing program to be...
WHO: Tobacco Tax Increase Has Resulted in Decreased Consumption
In the year since China's Ministry of Finance announced an increase in tobacco taxes, tobacco prices throughout the country are up and consumption is...
Throwback Thursday: Beijing Bans Smoking (Once Again)
As the Beijinger moves through its 15th year covering Beijing, it's time again for Throwback Thursday. In this edition, it's April 2008 and Beijing...
Throwback Thursday: 2015 – A Smoke Free Beijing?
In Throwback Thursday we look back on the news of yesterday, today, from the future, with more understanding of the past, but with just as much...
Burning Issue: Over 700 Venues Cited in First Week of Smoking Ban
Over 700 Beijing venues were cited for violations during the first week of Beijing's ban on smoking, the Xinhua News Agency reported. More than 300...
Survey Indicates Nearly 20 Percent of Chinese Middle School Students Smoke
Smoking has been a hot topic since the implementation of the new smoking ban last Monday and new data shows that adults are not the only ones...
Smoking Ban Kicks Off, Beijingers Hesitant to Report Others: Survey
Today's the day: Monday is the first day for the new city-wide smoking ban to go into effect, which bans indoor smoking completely, although it...
Beijing Smoking Ban to Extend to Capital International Airport; Shangri-La Opens Qinhuangdao Hotel
Looks like nervous flyers who smoke are about to become more nervous. Beijing's June 1 smoking that essentially covers every building with a roof...
Less Than 10 Days Before Beijing's Total Indoor Smoking Ban Takes Effect
Indoor life gets a little more difficult for Beijing's estimated 4.2 million smokers in fewer than 10 days as the city enacts the nation's toughest...
China Raises Cigarette Taxes, but Will It Stub Out Smoking
China raised cigarette taxes on Sunday, from five to 11 percent, in an effort to reduce smoking and less than a month before Beijing's smoking ban...
WHO Announces ‘Smoke Free’ #RUFREE# Campaign Ahead of June 1 Smoking Ban
As we seemed a little bit skeptical about the recently announced citywide indoor smoking ban (skeptical about it working out, let us reiterate, not...