Some e-cigarette dealers have adopted the strategy of "you have policies and I have countermeasures", changed the method and the regulatory authorities, did not allow sales online, and went underground, and played "hide and seek" with the regulatory authorities.
An e-cigarette product sold in a retail store. Photo by Xie Yiguan, a reporter from China News Network
Caiyun Network commentator Li Hongjun
Recently, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued the "Administrative Measures for Electronic Cigarettes", which clearly prohibits the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes other than tobacco flavors and electronic cigarettes that can add atomizations by themselves." "This also means that e-cigarettes such as fruit will be withdrawn from the market from May 1, 2022." After the promulgation of the Measures, a number of e-cigarette brands have responded, indicating that they are actively implementing regulatory requirements and announcing that they will stop producing flavored products such as fruits in the domestic market.
In recent years, with the increase in smoking bans at the national level, a new alternative to tobacco, electronic cigarettes, has emerged. E-cigarettes do not burn directly like traditional tobacco, but produce smoke by electronically burning some chemicals. Although e-cigarettes are not as harmful as tobacco, they can still cause harm to the body. In order to meet the needs of smokers, some e-cigarette manufacturers have made a variety of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, which are filled with a fruity smell after smoking, which is particularly popular among teenagers and is quite popular.
The state has clear provisions on prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. In November 2019, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and others issued the Notice on Further Protecting Minors from E-cigarettes, requiring e-commerce platforms to close e-cigarette stores in a timely manner and remove e-cigarette products from shelves in a timely manner. However, some e-cigarette dealers have adopted the strategy of "you have policies and I have countermeasures", changing the method to deal with the regulatory authorities, not allowing sales online, and going underground, and the regulatory authorities have played "hide and seek", which has become a long-term social disease, and this problem must be confirmed.
Saying "no" to "fruit-flavored e-cigarettes" demonstrates the institutional goodwill of caring for and caring for teenagers. In October 2021, the "Research Report on the Marketing of E-cigarettes and the Impact on The Health of Adolescents" released by the Institute of Health Communication of Fudan University showed that nearly half of the adolescents surveyed began to smoke e-cigarettes for the first time in the junior high school stage of 13-15 years old, and the most used taste of adolescents who had smoked e-cigarettes in the past 30 days was fruit. Teenagers are the age group that grows up and seeks knowledge, and excessive smoking of e-cigarettes can easily cause harm to the body. There have been statistics in foreign countries that show that the prevalence of lung cancer caused by the use of electronic cigarettes among adolescents has increased significantly, and it is urgent to ban the use of electronic cigarettes.
On the other hand, the use of e-cigarettes by minors can easily induce crime. As far as the author knows, the e-cigarettes sold in the current e-cigarette market are not cheap, and it is even much more expensive than tobacco cigarettes. Minors are not financially independent, have no financial ability to pay, and if they are addicted to e-cigarettes and have no money to buy, they will steal and rob, thus triggering crimes, and examples of this abound. Out of concern and love for teenagers, the prohibition of the production of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes has become a social must-answer question.
Teenagers are the future of the motherland, and the environment for growing up is crucial. If it is for the purpose of quitting smoking, it should be to maintain the taste of tobacco, and should not have a variety of fruits, flowers, plants and other flavors. Past practice has also proved that this is particularly attractive to teenagers. In this sense, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued the Measures at an appropriate time to clearly "prohibit the sale of seasoned electronic cigarettes other than tobacco flavors and electronic cigarettes that can add atomizations by themselves", which conforms to the will of the people and the people, and is of great benefit to ensuring the physical and mental health of minors. The harmful "fruit-flavored e-cigarette" should come to an end.
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