The Taiwan Medical Community Tobacco Prevention And Control Alliance is a anti-tobacco group that was formed on September 9, 2005 by seventeen medical organizations, including the Taiwan Medical Association, the Formosan Medical Association, the Taiwan Association of Family Medicine, the Taiwan Society of Adolescent Medicine, the Taiwan Society of Family Medicine Education, Taiwan Pediatric Association, and others.

　　On the day the Taiwan Medical Community Tobacco Prevention And Control Alliance was formed, it was campaigning to raise the price of cigarettes to NT$150 within three years and to cut the smoking population in half. According to Dr. Lee Meng-chih, who is the director of the Institute of Medicine of Chung Shan Medical University, based on the research of the World Health Organization (WHO), the smoking population can be reduced by 5% for every ten-dollar increase in the price of a pack of cigarettes.

　　Dr. Lee went on to say that the ratio of the cost of cigarettes to income in Taiwan is among the lowest in the world. The alliance is seeking to raise the taxes on tobacco products, so the price of a pack of cigarettes could reach NT$150, which will effectively cut Taiwan's smoking population by 50% in ten years. Of the NT$370B of annual budget for the National Health Insurance, at least NT$20B had been spent on the treatments of smoking-related diseases, such as pulmonary diseases, cardiac and arterial diseases, and cancers. It is obvious that tobacco has become a silent killer of our citizens.

　　Besides campaigning to raise the cigarette prices, Dr. Lee is also proactively persuading our government to enact smoking bans in all the public places, so we could achieve the goals of tobacco-free homes, workplaces, and school campuses. Dr. Lee has noted that many women and children are forced to inhale second-hand smoke at home. Even though it is difficult to achieve a smoke-free home environment, the alliance is nevertheless working hard to promote this idea, hoping that more and more people will finally free themselves from the unhealthiness of smoking cigarettes.