皇冠体育app

Tobacco Control Inspectors carrying out their duties. The government is making plans to enlarge warning signs on cigarette packaging in a bid to reduce the number of smokers. Provided to 皇冠体育app Daily

THE TOBACCO MONOPOLY BUREAU in Dezhou in East 皇冠体育app's Shandong province issued a letter calling on its employees to promote the sales of expensive cigarettes. Gmw.cn commented on Sunday:

The letter is well written, and the writers have obviously done their homework. But the letter goes too far. The bureau, as a government department, is in charge of administration and supervision of the tobacco production and sales, not sales promotion. The decline of tobacco sales, which is good news for public health, cannot justify the bureau's acting beyond its authority.

The letter demonstrates the head of the bureau does not know the limits of the bureau's ill-supervised power, and the government's hard-to-relinquish inclination to intervene in the market.

Also, the tobacco bureau system in 皇冠体育app should not ignore its legal duty to control the use of tobacco, since 皇冠体育app has the largest smoker population in the world, and many people die of illnesses related to tobacco use every year.

In many places, the tobacco bureau is actually the local State-owned tobacco corporation, which monopolizes the production and sales of tobacco. This double identity means, in most cases, the bureau will take sides with tobacco producers, for profit.

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