A team consisted of 59 legal experts has been formed in China to facilitate the country's work on tobacco control.

Yang Qing, an official from China's Ministry of Health of China, disclosed at a recent press conference that, from January 2011, smoking will be banned entirely from all indoor public places, work places, on public transportation, and other areas on the Chinese mainland.

According to China.com.cn, Beijing will pass a new law in 2010 that will completely ban smoking indoors.

With the approach of World Expo 2010, Shanghai is now adopting stricter rules for smokers.

Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Zhongnan Branch, has published two documents which state that students who smoke on campus will face deductions from their credit points.

Liu Zejun, the director of the Beijing Aiguo Weisheng Commission, has disclosed to the media that Beijing will work out measures on the revision of the No Smoking Rule in 2010, after an evaluation is made before the end of 2009 on the results of the current smoking ban in the city.

More than 30 people in Hunan have been detained for smoking in "dangerous" public places.