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13-year-old female student smokes e-cigarettes to "swallow clouds and spit fog"

author:Chenzhuzhou

This newspaper news (Zhuzhou Evening News Rong Media reporter / Xie Jia) hangs a pendant similar to a USB stick around his neck, takes off the kit from time to time, sucks twice, and then swallows the clouds and spits out the fog... Recently, Ms. Chen, a citizen, called the evening news hotline 28829110 reflected that her 13-year-old sister at home smoked e-cigarettes, and the management of stores selling e-cigarettes for minors was very loose, and the relevant departments should further increase the crackdown on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.

Merchants sell e-cigarettes to junior high school students

"My sister is still a junior high school student, and she spent 35 yuan to buy disposable e-cigarettes." Ms. Chen said that on the eve of the Spring Festival, she found her sister smoking e-cigarettes, and when she asked, she learned that she bought them in Zhuzhou Book City. Ms. Chen found the store for the first time and photographed the products being sold. In the photo, several teenagers are watching e-cigarettes, and some are still smoking.

Ms. Chen informed the management of Shucheng of this matter, hoping to strictly control e-cigarettes. During the Spring Festival, Ms. Chen also found that there were not many cases of minors smoking e-cigarettes.

"Children should either be addicted to smoking or buying to smoke and play." Ms. Chen said that although it is stipulated that e-cigarettes cannot be sold to minors, some e-cigarettes wrapped in "brilliant coats" are still infiltrating into minors.

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Physical stores turn a blind eye to students

On February 9, the reporter found in Zhuzhou Book City, Wangfujing, downtown underground square and other places that although the sales counters of e-cigarette shops are posted with the sign of "it is strictly forbidden to sell e-cigarettes to minors", the management of minors' purchase of e-cigarettes by different stores is not consistent.

In the book city, the reporter found the shop that Ms. Chen's sister bought and found that there was no e-cigarette for sale. The shop owner also said that it was "not for sale". Walking around the book city, I didn't find any e-cigarettes.

The relevant staff of the Book City Project Management Office admitted that there were indeed two e-cigarettes sold before the Spring Festival, and they managed them after learning about the situation.

In addition to small shops selling disposable e-cigarettes, the major shopping malls in our city basically have e-cigarette brand stores. "We don't mandate age confirmation, except that we don't sell to students who are obviously very young, and we turn a blind eye." A store salesperson at a shopping mall said.

The reporter learned that some merchants will be "kind" to remind underage consumers that they can find adult friends to buy e-cigarettes on their behalf.

At the e-cigarette sales counter on the 5th floor of Wangfujing, the sales staff said that e-cigarettes are divided into cigarette sticks (electronic atomizers) and smoke bombs (liquids containing nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerol, flavors, etc.). The nicotine content of the smoke bomb is generally 3%, the first user first try the fruit flavor with low nicotine content, and the old smokers can try the classic tobacco flavor with high nicotine content, which is closer to the cigarette.

The reporter also found that e-cigarette stores provide "free trial smoking" services, most stores have online sales channels, and online transactions can be carried out by adding weChat to the store.

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E-cigarettes can also bring harm to the body

Chen Chang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Hunan Zhizhong Hospital, said that smoking e-cigarettes will also bring harm to the body, and e-cigarettes contain harmful substances such as nicotine, which will affect lung health, accelerate physical aging, stimulate gastric mucosa, accelerate brain degeneration, stimulate blood vessels, etc. Adolescents are curious and can easily develop nicotine dependence without full understanding, which can develop into long-term smokers.

Nie Wei, a lawyer at Hunan Zhuojin Law Firm, said that according to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, minors' parents or other guardians must not allow or instigate minors to smoke, including electronic cigarettes. Where it is difficult to determine whether they are minors, they shall be required to present their identity documents. "E-cigarettes have potential safety hazards for minors, and the crackdown on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors should be further intensified."

【Source: Zhuzhou Evening News】

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