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Electronic cigarette to be regulated by legislation! Many products have vague nicotine concentration

Original title: electronic cigarettes are subject to legislative supervision. The nicotine concentration identification of many products is vague and easy to overdose

How to regulate e-cigarettes? Mao Qun'an, director of the planning department of the National Health Commission, said that great attention should be paid to the harm of e-cigarettes.

Mao Qun'an introduced that e-cigarettes have become a popular phenomenon not only in China but also in many countries. Studies at home and abroad have found that the aerosol produced by e-cigarette contains many toxic and harmful substances, and various additives in e-cigarette also have health risks.

In addition, the nicotine concentration mark contained in many electronic cigarette products is vague, which is easy to cause users to smoke too much. At the same time, the electronic cigarette appliances also have the risks of battery explosion, smoke liquid penetration, high temperature scald and so on.

Mao Qun'an said that at present, the use of e-cigarettes in China is at a low level, but compared with 2015, the proportion of respondents who have heard of e-cigarettes, the proportion who have used e-cigarettes and the proportion who now use e-cigarettes have increased.

The main way to obtain e-cigarettes is through online purchase. Research shows that the use of e-cigarettes is easy to induce teenagers to try traditional cigarettes, which speeds up the younger trend of smokers.

Mao Qun'an said that in order to reduce the smoking rate, teenagers must be prevented from trying tobacco, but e-cigarettes are just easy to induce teenagers to contact e-cigarettes first and then traditional tobacco in a fashionable way.

In view of the insecurity of electronic cigarette sets, which will have an impact on the formation of teenagers' healthy behavior habits, strict supervision must be strengthened. At present, the National Health Commission is working with relevant departments to carry out research on the supervision of e-cigarettes, and plans to regulate e-cigarettes through legislation.

Mao Qun'an pointed out that the National Health Commission also communicated with the World Health Organization on the supervision and hazard prevention of e-cigarettes.

The World Health Organization believes that we should pay attention to the harm of e-cigarettes as soon as possible.

In the theme publicity of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 this year, the National Health Commission took the rejection of e-cigarettes as the publicity theme, hoping to arouse the public, parents and teenagers' awareness of the hazards of e-cigarettes, especially parents and schools should supervise and reduce the possibility of teenagers' exposure to e-cigarettes.

National Health Commission: working with relevant departments

Study the possibility of tobacco tax price adjustment

Recently, the State Council issued the opinions on the implementation of the "healthy China action", proposing to take comprehensive measures such as taxation and price adjustment to control tobacco.

Mao Qun'an, director of the planning department of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference this afternoon that he would further study the possibility of tax price adjustment with relevant departments.

Mao Qun'an said that in fact, in 2015, China conducted a tobacco tax price adjustment, which is also the fourth tobacco tax price adjustment in China. Through tax price adjustment, tobacco consumption has been reduced.

Mao Qun'an also revealed that recently, the National Health Commission and the World Health Organization held a symposium on reducing tobacco consumption, inviting international and domestic experts to discuss. "At present, we are discussing with international organizations and experts, including tobacco consumption and the possibility of tax price adjustment. Because this involves the adjustment of fiscal and tax policies, the National Health Commission will actively support it. We will further study the possibility of tax price adjustment with relevant departments. ".

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Research: more and more Americans believe that e-cigarettes are as harmful as ordinary cigarettes

According to a new survey, more and more American adults believe that e-cigarettes are as harmful as ordinary cigarettes, overseas Chinese News reported.

The researchers investigated data from the tobacco products and risk perception survey managed by the center for tobacco management science at Georgia State University and the national trend survey of health information managed by the National Cancer Institute; Both surveys are nationally representative surveys of American adults every year.

When the results of the two surveys are combined, the proportion of people who believe that e-cigarettes are less harmful than ordinary cigarettes decreased from 45% in 2012 to 35% in 2017.

The research results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on March 29 show that the number of people who believe that e-cigarettes are as harmful as cigarettes has increased to 45% during this period, while the proportion of people who believe that e-cigarettes are more harmful is still very low, less than 10%.

Guangming Daily: systematic supervision of e-cigarettes should be carried out sooner rather than later

This year's CCTV '3 & middot; 15 evening party ', which exposed the harm of e-cigarettes and caused widespread heated discussion. In the program, after 8 kinds of electronic cigarette liquids randomly purchased from the market were sent to the laboratory for inspection, the staff found that the nicotine content of some cigarette liquids exceeded the standard.

This' 3 & middot; In the field of "party 15", e-cigarettes are relatively new compared with the food safety problems represented by spicy strips. In recent years, e-cigarettes are becoming more and more popular in China. They are regarded as a trend by some young people and have become the outlet of the industry. Because smoke is produced by atomization rather than combustion, e-smoke has been regarded as a substitute for traditional tobacco in the past. However, according to the survey results of CCTV, e-cigarettes are not as healthy as advertised by manufacturers, and their harm can not be ignored.

The lack of effective supervision of e-cigarette industry is first reflected in misleading publicity. For example, many sellers even claim that e-cigarettes can help quit smoking under the banner of "only relieving addiction but not addiction". However, this does not change the fact that e-cigarettes are essentially cigarettes and contain addictive and harmful substances such as nicotine. Some manufacturers also regard non-smokers as potential users. Quitting smoking can be said to be just a marketing cover. Another fact is that some teenagers have been adversely affected and become e-smokers.

In fact, before that, the World Health Organization had drawn a clear conclusion that e-cigarettes were harmful to public health. However, as an emerging industry, the e-cigarette industry still lacks systematic legal norms and unified production standards. The e-cigarette market is full of chaos, such as misleading publicity, excessive content, etc. These problems are closely related to the lag of industry supervision.

The regulations of Hangzhou Municipality on smoking control in public places, which came into force in 2010, explicitly included e-cigarettes in the scope of no smoking. The regulations point out that the supervision and management of smoking control in public places shall follow the principles of strengthening guidance, limiting places, unit responsibility and strict management. The regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on smoking control (Revised Draft) in February this year expanded the concept of smoking to the use of electronic cigarettes or other tobacco products lit. Beijing, the capital, is also exploring the feasibility of banning e-cigarettes. However, for most cities, the current regulation of e-cigarettes in public places is in a blank area.

One side is the regulatory vacuum of e-cigarette, and the other side is the rapid rise of the industry. According to the data, the output of e-cigarettes in China was about 594 million in 2014, with a year-on-year growth rate of 108.42%, and it is expected to reach 3.622 billion in 2020. At the same time, all kinds of capital quickly cut in and tried to occupy this cutting-edge industry.

In the background of e-cigarettes growing like weeds, CCTV'3 & middot; The 'party 15' is undoubtedly a wake-up call. Unclear standards and lagging supervision are likely to lead to a lot of industry chaos. Therefore, how addictive and harmful e-cigarettes are, whether they should be included in the scope of smoking ban, and how to set the market access threshold and sales threshold need to be systematically studied. In short, for e-cigarettes, an emerging thing and industry, systematic supervision should be carried out sooner rather than later.