Don't let e-cigarettes "hunt" teenagers

The most surprising thing is that some businesses will deliberately induce teenagers to sell e-cigarettes disguised as toys and dilute their "smoke" attribute; Emphasize its "safety, environmental protection and green". E-cigarette oil is purchased online. For example, a merchant selling steam e-cigarette said in an advertisement: "this product removes tar by baking real smoke, which not only protects you from tobacco, but also prevents your family from inhaling second-hand smoke."

As we all know, tobacco smoke does great harm to teenagers' health. Teenagers' smoking will do serious harm to many systems of the body, especially the respiratory system and cardiovascular system. The younger the age of smoking tobacco, the more serious the harm to the body. Because of this, China's law requires that tobacco products shall not be sold to minors.

In addition to being easy to become potential users of tobacco products, regular use of e-cigarettes may also fall into the "trap" carefully forged by businesses. According to China smoking health hazard report 2020, it is generally believed that "flavored" is one of the important reasons to attract teenagers to try e-cigarettes. The latest survey results of teenagers in the United States in 2019 show that among teenagers who use e-cigarettes at present, it is estimated that 72.2% of high school students and 59.2% of junior high school students use flavored e-cigarettes, among which fruit, menthol or mint and candy are the most common.

The reporter searched several e-commerce shopping platforms and found that although the keyword "e-cigarette" was not displayed, searching for keywords such as "electronic inhalation", "steam candy" and "energy bar" can find store information selling e-cigarettes and related accessories. Some merchant pages on the shopping platform show that they sell accessories products, but as long as they communicate with customer service, customer service will provide purchase services through QQ, wechat and other means.

The reporter noted that the China Center for Disease Control and prevention disclosed that the number of people aged 15 and over using e-cigarettes in China is about 10 million. The people who use e-cigarettes are mainly young people. Among them, the use rate of the age group aged 15-24 is the highest. The way to obtain e-cigarettes is mainly the Internet, accounting for 45.44%.

Unsafe for long-term use

Zhu Ting's daughter has been a freshman. Not long ago, she saw a very beautiful "fragrance" in her daughter's carry on makeup bag, which can emit a very fresh orange aroma. She thought it was very interesting. She asked her daughter to buy one for her, but she was "ridiculed" by her daughter. Her daughter said, "Mom, you're too old-fashioned. This is an electronic cigarette."

The reporter noted in the interview that many teenagers have been exposed to e-cigarettes more or less. Most of these electronic cigarettes are beautiful in appearance and contain a variety of cigarette oils with fruit flavor, which are popular with teenagers. Teenagers like to give it to each other as a gift and also like to use it as a "cool" prop. Because it is not a real tobacco product, parents and teachers will not strictly stop it when they see it.

Fashionable shell, fresh fruit fragrance, small and convenient like USB flash disk. When you suck it when you are bored, the long smoke can float out like real tobacco... At present, many young people have such a "fashionable" gadget in their pockets.

Using electronic cigarettes as toys is obviously a very dangerous behavior. The report 2020 on the health hazards of smoking in China issued by the National Health Commission believes that the use of e-cigarettes may be more likely to cause people to smoke cigarettes, which is particularly obvious among teenagers. In a study of more than 90000 teenagers, it also shows that the risk of teenagers becoming cigarette users after using e-cigarettes is 2.21 times higher than those who never use e-cigarettes.

But in fact, as early as 2019, the state market supervision and administration and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued the notice on further protecting minors from e-cigarettes, urging e-commerce platforms to close e-cigarette stores in time and take e-cigarette products off the shelves in time. But after two years, the reporter noted that e-cigarettes are still on sale, and buyers do not need to provide identity information.

The reporter noted that the newly revised law of the people's Republic of China on the protection of minors has been officially implemented since June 1 this year. Paragraph 4 of Article 17 clearly stipulates that parents or other guardians of minors shall not allow or instigate minors to smoke (including electronic cigarettes), drink, gamble, wander, beg or bully others.

The reporter believes that in the near future, the e-cigarette market will be standardized and orderly. More detailed prevention and control measures will guide teenagers to refuse to smoke e-cigarettes and stay away from e-cigarettes. (reporter Han Jianhui)

Even without other additives, the nicotine content in e-cigarettes cannot be verified. Many businesses claim that the nicotine content of e-cigarettes is very small, but "old smokers" who have smoked for many years told reporters that if the nicotine content is really so small, it must be "tasteless and powerless". For e-cigarettes that feel like "real cigarettes", the content of nicotine will certainly not be small. A research result of Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of China National Tobacco Corporation also shows that the nicotine content marked on 544 e-cigarette samples is quite different from the actual content, and the deviation range is - 100% to 105%. For example, the nicotine content of an electronic cigarette of a sample is 6mg / cigarette cartridge, but the detection value is 12.3mg/cigarette cartridge.

It's nothing new for teenagers to shop online. Citizen Zhao Xia told reporters that her 9-year-old daughter will buy daily necessities such as hairpins and slippers through online shopping app. In the eyes of young parents like Zhao Xia, online shopping for children is not a special thing.

Nevertheless, teenagers are still happy to buy this "toy". "Some business posters are very cool, and some have online Red endorsements. They feel very fashionable. Many students in our class will buy them as props to take photos." Xiaoyu's classmate Nan Nan said.

Xiao Ke, 16, has such a birthday gift. Because this brand of e-cigarettes is expensive, Xiao Ke cherishes it very much. Father Lao Xue also knew that he had such "toys", but in his opinion, it didn't matter. "After all, it's not real smoke," he said.

Citizen Gao Yucheng told reporters that he had long found that his son in high school bought e-cigarettes through the online shopping platform. Some bought them to play by himself, and some gave them as gifts to small partners. The prices ranged from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan, but Gao Yucheng did not interfere. As an "old smoker" who started smoking at the age of 17, Gao Yucheng even felt that his son's electronic cigarette was much better than his real cigarette as a teenager.

Market supervision needs to be strengthened

But these "seasoning" products may not be safe. Some media reported that in the cases related to e-cigarettes treated in Guangzhou Baiyun psychological hospital, many patients thought they were smoking "regular e-cigarettes", but they found synthetic cannabinoids after sending them for examination. After long-term smoking, patients will have emotional and cognitive changes and psychotic symptoms. Among the patients admitted to the hospital, a minor once smoked electronic cigarettes for 5 years, with poor sleep and heavy suspicion. When he was excited, he committed suicide and jumped from a building, resulting in multiple fractures of the whole body. After the hospital sent the smoke oil he smoked for examination, synthetic cannabinoids were detected.

However, in sharp contrast to the huge market, the e-cigarette industry is lack of supervision and worrying about product quality. At present, e-cigarettes are neither drugs, health products nor food. The industry is expanding, but the product quality is not strictly controlled.

The sales channel is very hidden

Online shopping accounts for online shopping accounts for high school students. Every year, gift money is in Alipay. Usually, they buy some school supplies or gifts from classmates, and do not need to know their parents. "Supermarkets and express stations near the school can store on behalf of others, and many students will buy online," Xiaoyu said.

So this is an electronic cigarette? Zhu Ting doesn't know about e-cigarettes. She warned her daughter not to smoke, but her daughter told her that this kind of e-cigarette is very "healthy" and can be used by people who quit smoking. I didn't buy it to suck, just as a prop for self shooting.

Is there any inferior quality of e-cigarettes bought for tens of dollars? Xiao Yu said, of course, some plastics are very bad. When heated, they smell pungent, and some of them smell peculiar. They smell like inferior perfume, and when they suck, they smell very bad. "It's like drinking the taste of a fragrant liquid."

This kind of "little toy" called "electronic cigarette" has many other names, such as "steam fructose" and "energy bar on fingertips". Because it is not real tobacco, when minors play on campus, parents and teachers will turn a blind eye when they see it and think it's no big deal.

According to the data released by China Center for Disease Control and prevention in 2020, the proportion of junior middle school students who have heard of e-cigarettes in 2019 was 69.9%, and the utilization rate of e-cigarettes was 2.7%, an increase of 24.9 and 1.5 percentage points respectively compared with 2014.

Where can I buy electronic cigarettes

In the e-cigarette wechat business provided by Xiaoyu, a senior high school student, the reporter saw that the selling price of e-cigarette products ranged from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan, and the price was very different. Xiaoyu told reporters that students without economic income generally only buy "play" with a price of less than 100 yuan. Unless they want to give gifts, they will consider "slightly more expensive".

Of course, the most unprotected thing for teenagers on the official website of tobacco and oil is the "safety" declared by businesses. "Doesn't it mean that people who quit smoking use this? They all say that e-cigarettes are an artifact invented to save smokers. Can the tobacco oil of e-cigarettes be edible? How can it be unhealthy." Nannan doesn't believe the reporter's "theory that e-cigarettes are harmful". She showed the reporter an advertisement made by an e-cigarette shop, which said: "The derivative release is about 8% of that of traditional tobacco, and the harm to human body can be reduced by 95%."

Where do the e-cigarettes widely loved by teenagers come from? The reporter also made a survey. Xiaoyu, a 17-year-old high school student, told reporters that you can buy them in physical stores, but physical stores are very expensive, so most students buy them online.

As for the frequent use of e-cigarettes mentioned by the reporter, they may become "potential users" of traditional tobacco. Nannan and Xiaoyu scoff: "that's impossible. I won't smoke."

The reporter searched relevant data and found that in 2013, the scale of China's e-cigarette market was 550 million yuan, and by 2020, the scale of China's e-cigarette market will increase to 8.33 billion yuan, with an eight-year compound annual growth rate of 72.5%. It is expected that the market scale is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan in 2021.

Therefore, it provides convenience for all kinds of inferior e-cigarettes to flow into the society and even the campus. The control of e-cigarettes is actually a systematic long-term project, which should pay equal attention to education, guidance and law enforcement. The society should publicize the harm of e-cigarettes more widely, implement more extensive social supervision, and form a society with extensive participation, guidance of professional institutions and supervision of law enforcement departments Complete system of pipe.

Teenagers prefer electronic cigarettes

The reporter noted that with the increasing popularity of electronic cigarette products among young people, many teenagers fall in love with this cool and fashionable "little toy" and hold an electronic cigarette. They can not only smoke real tobacco, but also experience the natural and unrestrained feeling of "swallowing clouds and puffing fog". Many teenagers still on campus are easily attracted by it "Capture".

So, is e-cigarettes harmful to the body? Why can e-cigarettes "target" teenagers under multiple national bans? The reporter conducted an investigation.

Of course, more shopping channels are in wechat. Xiaoyu showed reporters several wechat business cards he collected, which can be purchased online. He can also deliver goods confidentially according to the recipient's requirements, and mark other product names on the express package.

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