Blog Tag - Smoking

Fresh Off the Press: Beijing's Smoking Stats Stay Steady
Submitted on Jan 30, 2024
The Beijing Municipal Commission of Public Health has unveiled the latest numbers on smoking in the city, and it looks like we're at a bit of a...
Beijing’s Smoking Rate Falls Under 20% For The First Time
Submitted on Jan 06, 2022
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
Submitted on Jan 14, 2021
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...
Trending in Beijing: Does Self-Medication Help Virus Treatment, Fake Entry Passes, and WeChat Dark Mode
Submitted on Mar 11, 2020
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this? Trending in Beijing is a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, ...
Beijing-Tianjin Passenger Successfully Sues Train Operator After Encountering Secondhand Smoke
Submitted on Jun 27, 2018
On Monday, Jun 25, a student who traveled between Beijing and Tianjin in June of last year won a landmark case in which she sued the train operator...
DP Beijing Butts Out: Smoking Ban Results in 200,000 Fewer Smokers
Submitted on Jan 15, 2017
While Beijing residents accustomed to smoky restaurants, bars, and other hazy interiors doubted that the city's latest ban on lighting up would have...
Twenty-Five Percent of Beijing's Tobacco Vendors Fail to Butt Out, Continue Selling Cigarettes Near Schools Illegally
Submitted on Jul 25, 2016
Beijing minors looking to light up have ample opportunity, despite prohibitive regulations. On July 23 Xinhua reported that more than 25 percent of...
This Week in Fitness: Health Week Sequel, an Artisanal Energy Bar, and Obentos' New Menu
Submitted on May 30, 2016
This is the first edition of a new feature, This Week in Fitness, looking at what's available and what's happening in various areas of fitness and...
World Health Organization Calls for National Smoke-Free Law Ahead of World No Tobacco Day
Submitted on May 30, 2016
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
Submitted on May 13, 2016
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)
Submitted on Apr 14, 2016
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?
Submitted on Dec 17, 2015
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...
No, Living in Beijing is NOT Equivalent to Smoking 40 Cigarettes a Day
Submitted on Aug 22, 2015
Ah, Berkeley, The Economist: These words ooze credibility at their very core. So when a recent article in The Economist cited a study by an...
Best of the Blog: Notable Happenings From June
Submitted on Jun 30, 2015
Every month we tally the hits from thebeijinger.com and bring you the most viewed blogs from our website. Here's what was hot in June:  1. Survey...
Burning Issue: Over 700 Venues Cited in First Week of Smoking Ban
Submitted on Jun 11, 2015
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...