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Prohibit online e-cigarette e-commerce platforms from closing products off the shelves of e-cigarett

Prohibit online e-cigarette e-commerce platforms from closing products off the shelves of e-cigarette stores

On November 1, the state tobacco monopoly administration and the State Administration of market supervision jointly issued the circular on further protecting minors from e-cigarettes, requiring all kinds of market entities not to sell e-cigarettes to minors; Urge e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals to close e-cigarette Internet sales websites or clients in time, e-commerce platforms to close e-cigarette stores in time and take e-cigarette products off the shelves in time, and e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals to withdraw e-cigarette advertisements published through the Internet.

It is prohibited to sell electronic cigarettes to minors

In August last year, the State Administration of market supervision and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration jointly issued the circular on banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, requiring that the sale of e-cigarettes to minors be prohibited.

However, in order to blindly pursue economic interests, many e-cigarette enterprises in the market place the key goal of Internet marketing on the customer group of young people, list the e-cigarette label as the representative of 'Young', 'fashion' and 'trend', and wantonly publicize, promote and sell e-cigarettes.

Most minors know, buy and start smoking e-cigarettes through the Internet, which has caused serious harm to their physical and mental health. Many parents of students also reflect that their children are attracted by the online e-cigarette publicity, and can easily buy e-cigarettes through the e-commerce platform. They require the regulatory authorities to further take strict measures to prevent minors from being infringed by e-cigarettes, and strongly appeal to all sectors of society to stop the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.

The circular reiterated the main contents of the circular on banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors jointly issued by the State Administration of market supervision and the state tobacco monopoly administration last year, prompted the safety risks and health hazards of e-cigarettes, and required all kinds of market entities not to sell e-cigarettes to minors; All organizations and individuals are required to dissuade and stop the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.

At the same time, in order to further strengthen the protection of minors' physical and mental health and prevent minors from buying and smoking e-cigarettes through the Internet--

Urge e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals to close e-cigarette Internet sales websites or clients in time

Urge the e-commerce platform to close e-cigarette stores in time and remove e-cigarette products from the shelves in time

Urge e-cigarette production and sales enterprises or individuals to withdraw e-cigarette advertisements published through the Internet

Beijing Tobacco Control Association:

Electronic cigarettes should be banned in public places

Zhang Jianshu, President of Beijing Smoking Control Association, disclosed:

At present, Beijing is revising the regulations on the promotion of civil civilized behavior, which also involves the prohibition of smoking in public places. Zhang Jianshu said, "during the period when the regulations were open to the public for comments, our association has asked to include the supervision of e-cigarettes, a new thing. At present, the Municipal People's Congress and relevant departments have received our suggestions."

Illegal production and sale of e-cigarettes will be investigated and punished according to law

According to the survey, the domestic e-cigarette market is dominated by online sales, and e-commerce platforms, social platforms, live broadcasting platforms and external sales websites of e-cigarette enterprises are the main channels of e-cigarette sales. In addition, it is common for e-cigarette retail stores to sell e-cigarettes to minors and sell fake and shoddy products.

The circular has strengthened the supervision of e-cigarettes and required the tobacco monopoly administrative departments and market supervision and administration departments at all levels to earnestly strengthen the publicity, implementation and implementation of this circular and protect minors from the infringement of e-cigarettes.

In particular, the tobacco monopoly administrative departments at all levels are required to strengthen the market supervision of e-cigarette products, strengthen the monitoring, dissuasion and suppression of the promotion and sales of e-cigarettes through the Internet, and investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal acts found or notify the relevant departments according to law.

Next, the state tobacco monopoly administration and the state market supervision and administration will further strengthen the awareness of all sectors of society to protect minors from e-cigarettes; Strengthen the coordination and cooperation with relevant departments to jointly implement this circular; We will continue to investigate and deal with the illegal production and sale of e-cigarettes in accordance with the law, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of minors and consumers.

Tobacco control expert:

Do not let the smoke control laws and regulations exist in vain

"To curb the development momentum of e-cigarettes, we must prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, especially purify the e-cigarette sales network environment. I am very supportive and welcome!"

Zhang Jianshu, President of Beijing Smoking Control Association, said frankly that the Internet is developing rapidly, and the network has become the main sales channel of e-cigarettes. About 70% to 80% of e-cigarettes are sold through the network. In particular, these e-cigarettes with fashionable packaging and strange shape are very attractive to teenagers. Because they cannot verify their age and identity, minors can easily buy e-cigarettes online.

It is reported that many e-cigarette enterprises take young people as the focus of Internet marketing and mislead consumers with propaganda contrary to objective facts, such as' helping to quit smoking 'and' healthy and harmless'.

But in fact, most e-cigarettes have strong randomness in raw material selection, additive use, process design, quality control and other aspects, and there are serious quality and safety hidden dangers such as unsafe component addition, smoke oil leakage, low-quality batteries and so on. In particular, in order to improve the attractiveness of products, some e-cigarette enterprises randomly add various additives to change the taste and oil color of e-cigarettes. The market is chaotic and the product quality is uneven.

Up to now, a large number of countries around the world have completely banned or strictly restricted the sales of e-cigarettes. There are more than 40 countries or regions with explicit legislation or formal announcement to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes, such as Brazil, Singapore, India, etc. In addition, more than 60 countries and regions, including the United States, the world's largest consumer of e-cigarettes, and the European Union, strictly control e-cigarettes as tobacco products.

At the same time, Zhang Jianshu also expressed his concerns. Last year, the State Administration of market supervision and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration jointly issued the notice on banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. However, due to the absence of penalties, he felt that he must not be able to really land. There was no 'long teeth' law, which was a bit in vain.

We call on relevant laws and regulations to have more detailed provisions on the responsible subjects, punishment standards and punishment mechanism of violations.

Zhang Jianshu said that in addition to the problem of online sales, we should also check the source of e-cigarette production quality. " In the future, corresponding specifications should be issued as soon as possible for the production quality, production specifications, content and composition standards of e-cigarettes. "

Source: official account of Beijing Evening News