No Joke: China Bans Smoking It would seem difficult to enforce a ban on 300 million smokers. Host Liane Hansen talks to NPR's Rob Gifford in China, where businesses are putting up no-smoking signs ...

Under that treaty, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, China pledged to enact a national indoor smoking ban, a measure that researchers say both protects people ...

BEIJING-- China's capital began imposing the country's toughest ban on smoking in public places Monday in hopes of stemming a looming health crisis in a society where smoking remains a nearly ...

China’s Ministry of Health (MOH) recently announced that China will impose a Bloomberg-style ban on smoking in indoor public areas starting May 1, this year (just over a month from now).

BEIJING — China’s capital began imposing the country’s toughest ban on smoking in public places Monday in hopes of stemming a looming health crisis in a society where smoking remains a ...

"Public awareness of the health risks of smoking has risen significantly, with 23.8 percent of respondents recognizing that ...

China's latest push to ban smoking in indoor public venues came into effect Sunday, but the vaguely defined expanded rules were not expected to dramatically reduce the country's heavy tobacco ...

A summary of current health news includes topics such as the Trump administration's inaccurate health report, China's ban on ...

SHANGHAI—China expects to issue a nationwide regulation banning smoking in public places before the end of the year, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The ...

China has more than 300 million smokers Existing smoking bans are poorly enforced Smoking is linked to 1.4 million deaths a year in China BEIJING (AP) — China, which has the world's largest ...