This house would ban smoking in China

Definition:
Status of quo: The survey results showed that the smoking rate among people aged 15 and above
in China dropped from 33.9 percent in 1984 to 26.6 percent in 2018. Among them, the smoking
rate fell from 61% to 50.5% among men and from 7% to 2.1% among women. Based on this
calculation, the number of current smokers (those who were smoking at the time of the survey) in
China aged 15 and older was 308 million, of which 296 million were men and 11.8 million were
women.
Opening Government
1. Ensure healthy living environment-protect second-smoking smoking victims
2. Reduce medical burden on public healthcare system. It will not only reduce the burden on the
health care system. Because smoking can cause a lot of diseases, including lung disease,
fertility problems and so on. So smoking ban is of great benefit to the national health level.
Reduce medicine expense
3. Reduce the risk of fire
4. Avoid teenagers to get into the bad habit (impact on next generation)
5. A clear message to public, to advocate correct values and healthy lifestyle.
Opening Opposition:
1. Free choice of lifestyle
2. Economic impact
Loss of revenue (tobacco industry)
Personal economic loss (workers related tobacco industries)
More serious employment
3. Social stability: For example, Prohibition was introduced in the United States in 1920. After
the implementation of prohibition, it failed to eliminate these crimes as expected. On the
contrary, there was a huge profit margin for smuggling alcohol, which led to the emergence of
many gangsters. Similarly, if China bans smoking, the strong demand for cigarettes among
many smokers may lead to smuggling and other problems that undermine social stability.
4. Public Backlash: The resistance of smokers to the government