In the eyes of many people, the most profitable industry in China should be the tobacco industry. Thousands of years ago, the country's main revenue came from food taxes, and today's tobacco industry taxes have a tendency to replace the food industry. According to the statistics of the financial department, China's annual military expenditure in recent years is only 1.35 trillion yuan, if cigarettes can be advertised, then every cigarette smoked by smokers is a "weapon fired at the enemy." The profit of tobacco also reflects the huge number of smokers in China. If you make a ranking of the number of smokers in the world, our country will not let it sit at the top of the list, and China's smoking population accounts for one-third of the world's smokers, especially the number of smokers in China's youth groups. Based on this, the state's regulation of the cigarette market may cancel low-priced cigarettes, and 350 million smokers will be worried.
Low-priced cigarettes
The average retail price of China's current cigarette market is 13 yuan per pack, and some stores in areas with relatively low economy can even find cigarettes with a price of about five yuan. The price of such cigarettes is too low for even people living in remote cities with low incomes to afford. There is a certain difference in the price of cigarettes on the market, more than ten yuan, dozens of yuan or even a hundred yuan, but most people can not tell the difference, maybe some people who understand cigarettes or old smoking guns will mention the difference between spicy and soft taste.
Cigarette audience
According to the age distribution map of China's smoking population, the hardest hit areas of smokers are between 14-26 years old, and this age group accounts for more than 80%. Most of them are students in school, and they are more likely to be tempted if they do not enter the society. Teenagers, in particular, see smoking as not a physically damaging thing, but being able to show their cool behavior. Coupled with the improvement of people's living standards now, the pocket money given to children by parents is no longer three yuan, five yuan is usually tens of yuan, and some families have children's pressure money every year. Teenagers do not have high requirements for cigarettes, and cigarettes that do not require a taste of about ten yuan are just within their scope of commitment. Even for the sake of face, buying a cigarette for dozens of yuan seems acceptable. In the long run, the number of smokers in our country will not only not decrease, but also have a growing trend with the participation of young people.
The dangers of smoking
The total number of smokers in China exceeds 300 million, and more than one million people lose their lives every year due to long-term smoking. Based on the current situation, if the number of smokers is not effectively reduced, the number of deaths will double in ten years. Experts in the field of respiratory medicine have found that smoking can lead to a variety of lung diseases, such as tuberculosis, emphysema and so on. Severe cases can also cause cancer, and the longer you smoke, the higher the frequency of smoking, the greater the chance of triggering related diseases. Even if the state now mandates that every box of cigarettes in circulation in the market must be printed with the words "smoking is harmful to health", the impact on the majority of smokers is not large, and there are still people who are addicted to smoking.
Eliminate low-cost cigarettes
Some experts suggest that since the first choice of most smokers is low-priced cigarettes, raising the price of low-priced cigarettes or canceling low-priced cigarettes will cause most smokers to give up smoking because they cannot afford the price of cigarettes. When cigarettes become a "luxury", on the one hand, tobacco taxes are greatly increased; on the other hand, the profits of the tobacco industry can also achieve effective tobacco control. This is only an idealized solution, and whether it will actually bring the desired effect needs to be explored.
However, the country will definitely intervene in the control of young smokers, and recently the relevant departments have issued a notice on the construction of smoke-free schools, vigorously controlling the minors who smoke to protect the future of the motherland, and striving to fully achieve the goal of building smoke-free schools as soon as possible.