Team:Worldshaper-XSHS/HP/Silver
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More or less, we may meet the smokers sometime, somewhere - on the street, in the restaurant, even at home . None of team members in our team like this kind of experiences, because of not only bad smell but also health concerns. Therefore, we were thinking if we could make a bio-machine to remove the smoke smell as well as harmful ingredients from the cigarette so as to protect non-smoker from the second-hand smoke, and here was the initial idea of our project.
In order to confirm the meaning of this research and specify the product design, we have done the Human Practice (HP) research after a series of brainstorming. Our HP research was consisted by three part: background investigation, survey to general public and experts interview.
Research purposes
1) Whether smoking control is a consensus for the majority of the society
2) What can we do for smoking control based on synthetic biology
Background investigation
The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a treaty adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland on May 21st 2003. The treaty came into force on February 27th 2005. It had been signed by 168 countries and is legally binding in 181 ratifying countries. [1] The FCTC is a supranational agreement that seeks "to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke" by enacting a set of universal standards stating the dangers of tobacco and limiting its use in all forms worldwide.[2]
China signed the FCTC on November 10th 2003 and officially joined FCTC on August 28th 2005. On May 1st 2010, China officially implemented a smoking ban in Beijing, which stipulates that 10 types of public places, including restaurants, Internet cafes and gymnasiums, will completely ban smoking. December 29, 2013, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has required leading cadres at all levels to abide by the smoking ban regulations in public places and to set an example with practical actions. On November 24, 2014, China first proposed to Formulate administrative regulations to comprehensively control tobacco across the country. [3] On March 2018, National Health Commission of People’s Republic of China was found, who are going to lead the tobacco control in China. [4] [5]