煙草在線據VietNamNet Bridge報道編譯　　越南衛生部提議政府提高消費者吸煙的成本，以應對越南吸煙者和被動吸煙者人數增多的問題。

　　衛生部的提案呼吁提高所有煙草產品的稅率，并對免稅店中出售的卷煙最低價格給予更嚴格的規范。

　　越南衛生部已經設定了從現在開始到2020年的一些限制煙草有害影響的目標。它打算將男性吸煙者的比例從47.4%降到39%，使青年吸煙者（15至24歲之間的青年）的比例從26%降至18%。他們還希望使女性吸煙者的比例保持在1.4%以下。

　　越南衛生部還希望將在衛生保健中心接觸到卷煙煙霧影響的人的比例從24%大幅削減至14%，將在教育機構接觸到卷煙煙霧影響的人的比例從22%降低至12%。

　　目前，在工作場所被動吸煙者的比例為56%。越南衛生部希望將這個比例降至26%。

　　同樣，在飯店被動吸煙者的比例將從80%降至50%，公共交通工具上被動吸煙者的比例將從34%降至16%。

　　越南衛生部的統計數字將越南男性吸煙率評定為世界第15高。

　　在2010年進行的一項調查顯示，越南有1530萬吸煙者，另外大約有800萬人在工作場所接觸到卷煙煙霧，還有4700萬人在家被動吸煙。

　　越南衛生部還報告，每年越南有4萬死亡病例是與吸煙有關。與此同時，如果不采用有效的措施減少吸煙者的話，世界衛生組織估計，這個數字到2030年時將提高到7萬。

Vietnam: Tobacco Products to Face Higher Taxes

　　The Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed that the Government increases the cost of tobacco for consumers in a bid to tackle the high number of smokers and passive smokers in Viet Nam.

　　The proposal calls for a higher level of tax on all tobacco products and for the minimum price for cigarettes sold in duty free shops to be more tightly regulated.

　　The MoH has set a number of targets to limit the harmful effects of tobacco from now up to 2020. It aims to lower the rate of male smokers from 47.4 per cent to 39 per cent, and the number of young smokers (between the age of 15-24 years old) from 26 per cent to 18 per cent. They also hope to keep the ratio of women smokers under 1.4 per cent.

　　The ministry also wants to slash the rate of people exposed to cigarettes smoke at healthcare centres from 24 to 14 per cent, and at educational institutions from 22 to 12 per cent.

　　Currently the rate of passive smokers at work is 56 per cent, which the MoH hopes to reduce to 26 per cent.

　　Similarly, the ratio at restaurants will be pulled down to 50 per cent from 80 per cent and on public transportation to 16 from 34 per cent.

　　MoH statistics rate Vietnamese males as the fifteenth highest smokers in the world.

　　A survey in 2010 revealed that there were 15.3 million smokers in the country and about 8 million others are exposed to cigarettes smoke at work, with a staggering 47 million passive smokers at home.

　　The health ministry also reports 40,000 fatal cases relating to smoking in Viet Nam each year. Meanwhile the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated the figure will increase to 70,000 by 2030 if effective measures to reduce smokers are not applied. Enditem