Activists Wants Tobacco Firms Banned from Donating to Charities

(Beijing) – Anti-smoking activists say lawmakers who are set to deliberate on a draft charity law should consider banning tobacco firms from making donations so they do not use charity efforts to promote cigarette use.

Members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the body that runs the legislature between its full meetings, will meet in the capital from October 30 to November 4 for a first reading of a proposed Charity Law.