Li Bingying further explained that because the relevant units could not find financial support, they had to use cigarette donations as one of the financial resources. Unexpectedly, the source of Taiwan's vaccine fund will gradually evolve into 60-70% from cigarette donations8 , 30 % is Direct spending by the state treasury. However, such a budget preparation has a logical contradiction in that the government wants smokers to quit smoking on the one hand, but on the other hand, it seems that smokers must
smoke more (to pay tobacco donations) in order to meet the financial needs of the vaccine fund. What's more, with the increasing number of types of photo restoration service vaccines recommended internationally, the demand for vaccination of adults and the elderly has increased; and the unit price of vaccines has become more and more high, and the funding sources of the vaccine fund in the past have been set up in an outdated way and gradually cannot be supplied. required for national vaccinations.
In addition, in recent years, the government has actively promoted tobacco harm prevention policies. With the increase in the rate of smoking cessation, the income from tobacco donations has naturally shrunk. In addition to the vaccine fund, the tobacco donation income also needs to be allocated to 5 sub-funds including the Tobacco Injury Prevention and Health Care Fund, the Medical Development Fund, the National Health Insurance Relief Fund, the Drug Injury Relief Fund, and the Vaccination Victim Relief Fund. Not only is the source unstable, but it is a drop in the bucket when all units are equally divided.