Rummaging through the trash can and buying your own ...... online Some primary school students are addicted to "cigarette cards"

Recently, "cigarette cards" have become popular in primary school campuses in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hainan and other places, and some students are addicted to "cigarette cards", and some students have taken "cigarette cards" out of the game level.

From time to time, there are elementary school students with their eyes on the ground

Keep an eye on the tobacco products on the cigarette rack

"Cigarette cards" are cigarette labels cut from cigarette packs and folded into card-sized cards.

For some time, Li Fei (pseudonym), who runs a convenience store in Beihai City, Guangzhou, has discovered a strange phenomenon: Elementary school students often stare at the tobacco products on the cigarette rack in front of the cashier, constantly asking the price: "How much is this?

Li Fei felt very strange, he carefully observed and found that many elementary school students who walked together in groups after school almost each held one or even several cigarette boxes in their hands, which were filled with "cigarette cards" of different colors, "My aunt's children also asked my mother to help him collect 'cigarette cards'." Li Fei smiled bitterly.

Zhang Li, the head teacher of a village elementary school in Guangxi, found that since this semester, many children have become obsessed with the game of "cigarette cards". At the end of class and after school, at the back door of the classroom, on the playground track and even on both sides of the road, groups of children took out colorful "cigarette cards", squatted or lay on the ground, and competed to play cards. The rules of this game are very simple, one side turns over the "cigarette card" by slapping the ground or slapping the air, and the winner can take the "cigarette card".

Some children play with "cigarette cards"

to the point of "going mad".

Liu Yuan (pseudonym), a primary school teacher in a town in Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, noticed that some students were secretly folding "cigarette cards" in class, and some students were reminiscing about the "cigarette cards" game in class, trying to figure out how to have a better chance of winning. In response, Liu Yuan would confiscate their "cigarette cards" and throw them in the trash can for disrupting classroom discipline, "but they would pick them up in the trash can when I left the classroom and continue playing." ”

What worries Zhang Li is that some children play with "cigarette cards" to the extent of "going crazy". Some students will secretly take cards to "practice their skills" during class, or put the cards in stationery boxes to "appreciate" quietly, and some will have quarrels and fights with classmates when exchanging "cigarette cards".

"If this continues, it will undoubtedly affect students' learning. In mid-March, Zhang Li's village elementary school issued a ban on "cigarette cards," "Each class emphasized to students that it is forbidden to bring 'cigarette cards' to school, and if anyone is found to have violated the ban, the teacher can directly confiscate it." ”

However, many students are "fighting wits and courage" with their teachers. Liu Yuan found that there were fewer students playing with "cigarette cards" in the teaching building, but there were often students taking "cigarette cards" in the dormitory, "They felt that the probability of these places being discovered by teachers was relatively small." ”

Among some students

Shooting "cigarette cards" is being upgraded to "gambling"

The reporter's investigation found that most primary school students do not have much pocket money in their hands, and they have to spend a lot of energy in order to collect cigarette boxes. In addition to staring at the cigarette box at home, they will also ask their grandfather, grandfather or other relatives and elders for cigarette boxes. Some parents said that their children have more understanding of cigarette brands than adults who smoke because of playing "cigarette cards", and some students asked parents to buy "cigarette cards" online.

On the way to and from school, these students who can't stop wanting "cigarette cards" will pay special attention to garbage cans, collect cigarette boxes discarded by others on the roadside, and even go to garbage transfer stations to search for cigarette boxes. "Going to the trash can to pick up the 'cigarette card' is easy to get sick with bacteria. What worries Liu Yuan is that students often lie directly on the ground to take pictures of "cigarette cards", which is very unhygienic.

What is particularly alarming is that among some students, taking "cigarette cards" has been detached from the game level and is being upgraded to "gambling". Everyone bets first, and the losing student should give the corresponding amount of "cigarette card" to the winning side, or you can give cash or other items directly.

In some shops around campuses, some merchants sell "cigarette cards" to minors, which contributes to this unhealthy trend.

At the end of March, law enforcement officers of the Haikou City Market Supervision and Administration Bureau in Hainan Province launched a special inspection operation against the sales of "cigarette cards" in stationery stores and toy stores around schools in the jurisdiction. Law enforcement officers of the Meilan Branch of the Haikou Municipal Administration for Market Regulation found that some manufacturers printed and sold cigarette packs with trademarks such as "Zhonghua" and "Hetianxia" without authorization.

On the Internet, elementary school students can more easily buy "cigarette cards". The reporter saw on an e-commerce platform that 5 stores selling "cigarette cards" showed that more than 1 million products had been spelled, and 15 stores showed that more than 100,000 pieces of related goods had been spelled, and no information such as age was required, and everyone could buy them. The "cigarette cards" sold by these stores are not only domestic cigarette brands, but also foreign brands.

The reporter entered a "cigarette card" exchange group on a social platform, and the group members took photos and posted their "cigarette cards" to show off: "Do you think I am rare?" and "I will top all you have." "Who has the purple yellow crane tower? The reporter found that many of them took the "cigarette card" in the background of primary school textbooks and other books.

Some "cigarette card" lovers claim that the cigarette cards on the e-commerce platform are also superior and disadvantaged: 1-2 yuan a "cigarette card" is basically an imitation printed by the merchant, "not of high value"; some rare and genuine products, that is, the "cigarette card" directly cut from the cigarette box, the price is higher - 5 yuan for a Chinese brand, 10 yuan for Jiaozi brand, up to 20 yuan for the "He Tianxia" series, and as high as 100 yuan or 1,000 yuan, they will grade the "cigarette card" through the price of cigarettes.

What worries Liu Yuan is that some fourth- and fifth-grade students in the school have begun to smoke. "It is not a trivial matter for primary school students to become addicted to playing 'cigarette cards', and schools, parents and all parties in society should pay attention to it and quit this bad habit as soon as possible. ”

Some businesses print and sell "cigarette cards" without authorization

will bear the corresponding legal responsibility

In 2019, eight departments, including the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Education, issued a document calling for strict investigation and punishment of illegal sales of tobacco products to minors, and tobacco monopoly retailers must set up signs in prominent positions that do not sell tobacco products to minors, and must not sell tobacco products to minors.

In convenience stores, Li Fei observed that the trend of "cigarette cards" at a younger age will lead to minors being exposed to tobacco products earlier.

Zhang Li believes that "some rural children regard the 'cigarette card' as a fun and easy-to-get toy, and the children should be guided so that they can play happily and study seriously."

Law enforcement officers of the Haikou Municipal Administration for Market Regulation said that some businesses printing and selling "cigarette cards" without authorization, suspected of forging or manufacturing other people's registered trademark logos without authorization, or selling forged or unauthorized registered trademark logos, will bear corresponding legal responsibility. In addition, the behavior of merchants buying and selling "cigarette cards" is contrary to the construction of the campus environment and the spirit of protection of minors, and has a negative impact on the psychology and values of minors.

Source: China Youth Daily

Editor: Pan Pan

Intern Editor: Chen Xuan