Recently, some media reported that fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, which are banned by the state, have quietly been "dressed up" as atomizers and children's toys for sale.
By chance, Mr. Zhang from Cangzhou, Hebei Province, found that there were merchants selling "herbal atomizers" on the Internet.
The product detail page is advertised as "Healthy Smokeless Oil" and is available in a variety of fruit flavors.
There is also a fruit-flavored e-cigarette that Mr. Zhang bought before, but its product name is also marked as "atomizer".
Mr. Zhang showed the reporter the atomizer he smoked, which looked like a lighter, was green, and had an air port above.
When you put it in your mouth and smoke it, it produces an aerosol, and "it feels no different from vaping".
Mr. Zhang said that he was a second-hand trading platform to brush the atomizer goods,
After placing an order or two, the store owner's private contact information was directly added and turned into an offline transaction.
According to the clues provided by Mr. Zhang, the reporter found that there are not a few merchants who sell so-called "herbal atomizers" on second-hand trading platforms and online shopping platforms.
These merchants often claim that what they sell is "an herbal atomizer, not an e-cigarette", with 0 tar and 0 nicotine, which not only will not cause harm to the body, but can also assist in the treatment of sore throat, chronic pharyngitis and other diseases. Some merchants will even deliberately indicate "legal and compliant fruit flavor".
Recently, Mr. Li, a citizen of Tianjin, was browsing a social platform when he was pushing a "person he may know".
The netizen's profile picture is a photo of a boy swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the post is to share his "results" - several long strips of shape, different colors like lighters.
The netizen also replied to others in the comment area, "These are fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, and they are not allowed to be sold on the surface, but I have channels."
Mr. Li clicked on the Home of the account to view his past dynamic findings,
This person turned out to be his nephew who had just entered high school, only 16 years old, and he didn't know where he got into the bad habit of smoking e-cigarettes.
Under his questioning, the nephew confessed that the e-cigarette was an advertisement for selling goods sent by others when he was shopping in the post bar.
Out of curiosity, the seller placed an order, and he had bought it several times from that person, "The seller said that he had a full supply of goods and many types."
Recently, Mr. Zhang, who lives in Cao County, Heze, Shandong Province, recently found that his 10-year-old son was a little weird, the child always locked himself in the room, and every time he opened the door, there was always a strong smell of mint in the house.
Mr. Zhang said that at first, the parents didn't take it seriously, but later found an e-cigarette under his pillow.
At that time, Mr. Zhang thought it was a toy, but on closer inspection, it was an e-cigarette in the shape of a toy.
Mr. Zhang smelled mint when he smelled it, so he was very angry. "I asked him where he got it, and he said he bought it."
Zhang Xian also said that the merchant deliberately made this e-cigarette like a toy, obviously to sell it to children.
In order to prevent more children from being abused, Mr. Zhang reported the matter to the Cao County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau.
After receiving the report, the Cao County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau immediately joined forces with the Cao County police to investigate the source of the sale of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes.
Wei Xingzhou, a police officer from the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Cao County Public Security Bureau, said that after verification, the police found that Mr. Zhang's son had purchased the fruit-flavored e-cigarette at a small supermarket in Cao County.
The supermarket is also selling a large number of counterfeit and substandard e-cigarettes, and most of the buyers are minors.
After grasping a large amount of evidence, the police handling the case launched an arrest of the supermarket operator.
Netizens said that this kind of behavior is too hateful and must be strictly investigated and punished.
Studies have shown that vaping may have negative effects on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
In particular, low-quality e-cigarettes may have problems such as excessive heavy metals and the use of illegal additives, which have a great impact on the human body.
Due to the sweet taste and variety of flavors of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, they will be more attractive to minors, so that there was a period of time when the use rate of e-cigarettes among teenagers increased significantly.
The mainland's "Measures for the Administration of Electronic Cigarettes" clearly stipulates that the sale of electronic cigarette products to minors is prohibited, and the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes other than tobacco flavors is prohibited.
However, there are still some unscrupulous merchants who use the excuse that the "herbal atomizer" has 0 tar content and sell it on the grounds that the "atomizer" is not an e-cigarette.
In fact, such "atomizers" are e-cigarettes, which should also be banned.
Yue Qiang, a senior partner of Beijing Hairun Tianrui Law Firm, told reporters that according to the Tobacco Monopoly Law, the "Measures for the Administration of Electronic Cigarettes" and other regulations, electronic cigarettes are "electronic transmission systems used to generate aerosols for people to smoke", and e-cigarettes that do not contain nicotine (nicotine) are also included in the definition of e-cigarettes, and clearly require that "atomized substances should contain nicotine", that is, e-cigarette products that do not contain nicotine shall not be sold on the market. Although the "herbal atomizer" sold by the above-mentioned merchants is trying to clarify the relationship between the atomizer sold and the e-cigarette from the product details to the sales language, in fact, the content of the "herbal atomizer" meets the definition of atomizer and belongs to e-cigarette.
Hui Peiqiang, deputy director of the Cao County Public Security Bureau, said that in recent years, due to the low cost and high profit of counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarettes, there have been frequent cases of production and sale of such e-cigarettes. Moreover, after identification, these fake and shoddy e-cigarettes have problems such as excessive heavy metals and the use of illegal additives, which have a great impact on the human body.
The general public is also reminded that they must not buy these fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, and once they are found to be on sale, they should immediately call 12313 to report or directly call 110 to report to the police.
(Qilu Evening News · Qilu One Point Client Editor Cui Keteng Comprehensive CCTV News, Rule of Law Daily, Sina Weibo, Netizen Comments, etc.)