The ban on online e-cigarettes is coming! Can't you buy e-cigarettes?

Recently, due to the revision of relevant laws, people pay more and more attention to the healthy growth of minors. Yesterday, the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and the State Administration of market supervision and Administration jointly issued the notice on further protecting minors from e-cigarettes, which requires that e-cigarettes should not be sold through the Internet. But back to reality, is it difficult for a minor to buy an e-cigarette?

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The main reason why e-cigarettes are popular is that they are often advertised as "healthy", "harmless" and "stylish", which makes many young people feel that smoking e-cigarettes is not only harmless but also cool.

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Shopkeeper misleads 15-year-old high school students: e-cigarettes do no harm to students

It is not only various advertising terms that are easy to mislead minors. This morning, at a convenience store near Blackstar primary school, the reporter saw that there were all kinds of e-cigarettes on sale in a prominent position beside the cash register. Xiao Liu, a senior high school student, pretended to ask if he could buy e-cigarettes. The shopkeeper not only responded enthusiastically, but also took the initiative to introduce the price and type of e-cigarettes, so as to sell them to her.

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E-cigarettes are popular on the Internet, and minors can easily buy them

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For the convenience of purchase, some minors will also purchase through the Internet. According to the "Circular" issued by the two departments, all kinds of market entities are not allowed to sell e-cigarettes to minors, or sell e-cigarettes through the Internet, or publish e-cigarette advertisements through the Internet, and urge e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals to timely close e-cigarette Internet sales websites or clients, and e-commerce platforms to timely close e-cigarette shops and sell e-cigarettes The products were removed from the shelves in time, and the e-cigarette advertisements released through the Internet were withdrawn by the e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals. However, the reporter searched the e-commerce platform and found that, in addition to individual businesses taking e-cigarettes off the shelves, most e-cigarettes of e-commerce are selling well.

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E-cigarettes are not "health cigarettes"

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In the final analysis, this is because businesses are neglecting to verify the identity of buyers for their own interests. On the other hand, there are indeed many people who are not aware of the harm of e-cigarettes.

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Strengthening the supervision of e-cigarettes needs the joint efforts of the society

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In fact, on October 1 this year, the newly revised "smoking control regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone" has incorporated e-cigarettes into the scope of tobacco control. However, in the process of law enforcement, many citizens still do not understand and cooperate. Experts said that e-cigarette sales also have the characteristics of confidentiality and diversity, so in the future, there are difficulties in investigating and dealing with online sales, which requires the joint efforts of the whole society to implement the new regulations.

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Editor: Yu reviewed by: Huang Yuping