Source: Behavioral Health Central 
Date: 2010-03-10

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which China signed in 2003
and ratified in 2005, the country will ban all types of tobacco
advertising and promotion by 2011 in accordance with the FCTC.

Further, smoking in all indoor work places and public areas, as
well as public transportation vehicles, will also be banned.

With just one year to go, and less than three months ahead of
what authorities promised would be a smoke-free Shanghai World
Expo, the Chinese government is fast tracking smoking control,
even at this year\'s annual parliamentary and advisory sessions.

Health Minister Chen Zhu said on March 3, the opening day of the
annual session of the National Committee of the Chinese People\'s
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), that legislation for
smoking control in public areas was currently being enacted in
China.