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Together We Strive for a Tobacco-free Hong Kong” Advocacy Campaign

I / We support the following tobacco control measures with an aim to further reduce the smoking prevalence in Hong Kong:

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Strategy 1: Regulate Supply, Suppress Demand
  • Raise tobacco tax next year to the 75% target recommended by the World Health Organization and annually above the inflation rate
  • Continuously raise the legal age of tobacco purchase and ban the sale and provision of tobacco products to those under the legal age
  • Require labelling on cigarette packs and cigarettes for distinguishing duty-paid and illicit tobacco
  • Raise the penalty for handling, possessing, selling or purchasing illicit tobacco
  • Set up a designated enforcement team to combat “dim sum sheet” illicit tobacco promotion and sale
  • Ban the possession of alternative smoking products for any purposes and increase the penalty for the import, promotion, manufacture, sale and possession
Strategy 2: Ban Promotion, Reduce Attractiveness
  • Ban all tobacco products with flavours, additives and additive accessory products
  • Limit and standardize the nicotine content in tobacco products
  • Implement plain packaging
  • Standardize the design of cigarettes and require health warnings on each cigarette
  • Introduce more than 1 set of pictorial health warnings for rotation and delegate Health Bureau to amend the types of warnings
  • Require smoking cessation information card insert in cigarette packs
  • Require tobacco products to be stored out of sight and reach by customers and impose mandatory sale guidelines for retailers
Strategy 3: Expand NSAs, Mitigate Harm
  • Expand statutory no smoking areas (NSAs) to more places, such as footbridges, waiting areas of public transport and pedestrian crossing, premise entrances, etc.
  • Expand NSAs to most of the public areas
  • Ban “smoking while walking”
  • Impose legal liability on venue managers who condone illegal smoking in smoke-free premises
  • Increase the level of fixed penalty for smoking in NSAs to at least $5,000
Strategy 4: Enhance Education, Support Cessation
  • Enhance smoking cessation services in the primary healthcare system
  • Strengthen smoking cessation training for primary healthcare practitioners
  • Support smoking cessation through mobile applications
  • Strengthen tobacco prevention education in regular curriculums for students

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