Large scale clinical research is needed to reduce the harm of cigarette and Chinese herbal medicine

In February this year, Xu Rigan, vice president of the Chinese Academy of engineering, said in an interview that according to the survey results of Xie Jianping, his main work and achievements are basic research, and the materials and awards have not been forged Qin Boyi, an academician of the Academy of engineering, pointed out that academician Zhang Boli, a member of the investigation team, is the chairman of the appraisal committee of Xie Jianping's main research achievements and should be avoided Yesterday (March 12), the reporter interviewed Zhang Boli, deputy to the National People's Congress, President of Tianjin University of traditional Chinese medicine and President of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine, "I don't answer your question, this question is too sensitive, and this kind of question will not be answered" Zhang Boli was reluctant to answer the questions related to "academician of tobacco" The project of "establishment and application of cigarette hazard evaluation and control system" won the second prize of 2010 National Science and technology progress award is one of the main achievements of Xie Jianping Its predecessor, the research on cigarette hazard index system, was taken as the leading subject of China's tobacco industry harm reduction and coke reduction project In 2007, the National Tobacco Monopoly Bureau organized the project appraisal, and Zhang Boli served as the chairman of the Committee and announced the appraisal opinions As early as 2005, Zhang Boli visited Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute and had academic exchanges He also said on several occasions that the combination of Chinese cigarettes and Chinese herbal medicines is a new idea to reduce the harm of cigarettes, which can develop low harm cigarettes with Chinese characteristics and improve the market competitiveness of Chinese cigarette products Xie Jianping introduced Chinese herbal medicine "Shennong extract" into cigarettes, which has been used in "wuyeshen" and other cigarettes "Is there any research proving that adding Chinese herbal medicine or other measures to cigarettes can reduce the harm?" The reporter asked again Zhang Boli said that large-scale clinical research is still needed to determine whether coke reduction can reduce the harm, and there is no large-scale evaluation of cigarette harm reduction at home and abroad "It is certain that smoking is harmful to health No matter how much money the tobacco industry earns, it is not a good phenomenon that there are so many people smoking now in China." Zhang Boli said that the harm reduction of cigarettes should "prohibit smoking, restrict the development of the whole tobacco industry, and let more people not smoke" But he said, "now there are 350 million smokers After all, smoking is not a crime You can't lock all these 350 million people up It can only be education." "I don't smoke myself, I'm against smoking, I'll say that," Zhang said at the end.