The Health Minister revealed that China’s 300 million smokers face smoking ban in indoor public places. China has imposed a national ban on smoking in hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, and in many other indoor public spaces.

The biggest producer and consumer of tobacco product, China, will take a step toward smoking ban on May 1. The rules which will come in power on May 1 will also explain about the dangers of tobacco, including restriction on cigarette vending machine and on outdoor smoking that affects other people.

Although the passed rules and regulations have some loopholes such as they have not included factories, workplaces, offices or government, and no guidelines have been specified for the punishment of those who contravene it.

According to a survey by the US centres for Diseases Control and Prevention, it has been established that less than quarter of adults believed that smoking causes strokes and heart attacks, and only a quarter believes that smoking causes sickness in children.

Wu Yiqun, Deputy Director of the Think Tank Research Centre for Health Development, said that may be new ban would be tough for everybody, but still it is important to ban smoking. He said that changes will be slow in coming, but it will help us.

According to the health officials smoking kills 1.2 million people every year, which means tobacco kills 3,000 Chinese per day.