China's New Road for Tobacco Control: Tobacco Crop Substitution

Since China ratified the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2005, it has been the world's leading nation in both tobacco production and consumption (http://bit.ly/2NrqDuS). In 2014, the industry's contribution accounted for nearly 7% of the st...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2018-10, Vol.108 (10), p.1316-1317
Main Authors: Li, Virginia C, Tang, Songyuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural economics
Agricultural land
Agriculture
AJPH s
Cash crops
Charitable foundations
China
Collaboration
Consumption
Cooperatives
Costs
Councils
Crops
Economics
Farmers
Food security
Global economy
Health care policy
Health Policy
Humans
Leadership
Livestock
Minors
National security
Nicotiana
Other Tobacco
Pesticides
Political parties
Public Health
Smoking
Tobacco
Tobacco Control
Tobacco industry
Tobacco Industry - organization & administration
Tobacco Use Disorder - prevention & control
World Health Organization
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Summary:Since China ratified the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2005, it has been the world's leading nation in both tobacco production and consumption (http://bit.ly/2NrqDuS). In 2014, the industry's contribution accounted for nearly 7% of the state's total revenues.3 China's top leadership recognizes the problem ofthe nation's food security; therefore, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued the Farmland Redline Policy on the reduction of tobacco acreage nationwide.4 NEW ENERGY FOR THE FCTC STRATEGY As China transitions to a developed country and world economic power, new and greater efforts for tobacco control have gained momentum. In 2010, the annual income of the participating farmers in the pilot sites was 21% to 110% greater than for farmers who cultivated tobacco.1 Researchers from Chengdu and Shanghai also suggested that, compared with other cash crops such as fruit, sugar, oilseeds, and livestock, tobacco has the lowest economic return. Since 2015, successful examples of tobacco crop substitution have been reported from tobacco-producing provinces such as Shandong and Sichuan.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304620