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Takeout businesses sell cigarettes to minors in secret language, and takeout means of selling cigare

Takeout businesses sell cigarettes to minors in secret language, and takeout means of selling cigarettes emerge one after another

'for customers who need to swallow incense, please add Wei letter', 'order notes for incense reason', 'no extra charge for delivery to Yan's door' & hellip& hellip; Recently, businesses on several takeout platforms have launched similar promotional messages, and 'Xiangyan' and 'Yan' all imply 'cigarettes'.

The state stipulates that it is not allowed to sell cigarettes on the Internet, and it is not allowed to sell tobacco products to minors. However, the 'Xinhua viewpoint' reporter found that on some takeout platforms, bad businesses do not seriously verify the identity of consumers in order to expand sales, and even connive at minors to buy cigarettes in various hidden ways.

Some minors buy cigarettes through takeout by using secret codes to conceal transactions

Recently, Xiaoxin, a 12-year-old junior high school student in Hunan, opened a business called "Gaosheng supermarket" on the meituan takeout platform and found that the notice on its home page marked "if you need Xiangyan, please note". The merchant told Xiaoxin, 'when purchasing, place an order for other goods, write down the brand and quantity of cigarettes required in the remarks, and the cost will be paid by the rider in advance, and then paid to the rider when picking up the goods.'

According to the merchant's tips, Xiaoxin bought three bottles of beer and noted that he needed a box of cigarettes of a certain brand. About 30 minutes later, the goods arrived. The rider didn't ask any questions. He only asked Xiaoxin to pay 10 yuan for cigarettes. Xiaoxin told reporters, 'many of our students buy cigarettes through the takeout platform. No one has ever asked their age. It's very convenient to buy cigarettes.'

The reporter learned that takeout platforms such as meituan prohibit merchants from selling cigarettes and other goods on the platform. However, some merchants still illegally sell cigarettes by constantly changing 'keywords'. The reporter inputs the words "cigarette" on takeout platforms such as meituan and hungry. The search results show that "sorry, no relevant goods and users have been found". However, if you enter words such as "tobacco and alcohol", the words "tobacco and alcohol supermarket" and "so and so convenience store" will pop up.

The reporter recently entered 'tobacco and alcohol' on the meituan takeout platform, and there were search results such as' Meiyijia 'and' Jingdong convenience store '. Click to open a 'Jingdong convenience store', and the notice on the top bar of its page says' if you need Xiangyan customers, please call the store or add Wei letter '.

On many takeout platforms such as meituan and hungry, it is common to use similar words, Pinyin, homophony and pictures to replace the sensitive word 'smoke', which is generally hidden in the merchant's bulletin board, such as' Xiangyan ',' Xiangyan ',' Xiangyan ', etc.

The reporter added the micro signal provided by the 'Jingdong convenience store' on meituan, saying he wanted to buy cigarettes. The clerk said, 'you need to place an order in meituan to buy other things in the store. Let the rider deliver the cigarettes, and the money for cigarettes can be transferred directly through wechat.' The clerk also said that on average, there are more than ten takeout orders for cigarettes a day. "It's difficult to identify who made the order."

Within the 3km distribution range positioned by the takeout software, the reporter saw that almost every convenience store left its store phone number, and many stores released all kinds of "secret codes" for selling cigarettes, including some well-known chain stores with leading sales.

There is a large demand for takeout errands to buy cigarettes, and neither merchants nor riders verify the identity of consumers

At present, there are more and more types of businesses entering the takeout platform. In addition to the familiar catering, various convenience stores and supermarkets have also entered the takeout platform, some of which are qualified to sell cigarettes. Can these businesses sell cigarettes online?

According to the notice on severely cracking down on the illegal operation of tobacco monopoly products through Internet and other information networks jointly issued by the state tobacco monopoly administration, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of public security and other departments in 2009, in addition to the online trading platform designated by the tobacco monopoly administration department, Other Internet information service providers shall not provide Internet information services for the operation of tobacco monopoly commodities. This means that it is illegal for retailers to sell tobacco through takeout platforms.

Although the law has banned it, some businesses still go their own way. The reporter asked the clerk of a convenience store "do you know you can't sell cigarettes on the Internet". The clerk said, "there is a great demand for takeout to buy cigarettes on errands. Cigarettes and other words are not allowed in advertisements on the platform. We have to use homophony and pinyin to avoid the sensitive word cigarette." For whether the buyer will be verified as a minor, the clerk said, "after we receive the order, we generally default that the order is an adult."

The takeout riders who directly face consumers will not take the initiative to verify the identity of the buyer. Xiao Wang, a rider in Guangzhou, told reporters that the platform's assessment of riders is based on the amount of orders, as long as the goods are delivered safely. " It's the merchant's business to pack something. I can't open the packaged goods. Even if you buy cigarettes on behalf of others, you won't take care of it when you see that the recipient is a child. " Xiao Wang said.

The Interim Regulations on express delivery clearly stipulates that the name, nature and quantity of articles to be delivered shall be provided truthfully. However, with the development of new businesses such as errands, these basic requirements are difficult to be implemented.

The market supervision department should strengthen law enforcement, and the platform said it would strengthen manual audit

"Selling cigarettes without a threshold increases minors' exposure to cigarettes." Zhuang Runsen, executive vice president of Shenzhen Tobacco Control Association, believes that the platform should further strengthen the supervision of businesses to avoid minors being infringed by tobacco.

The reporter's investigation found that it is difficult to obtain evidence and punish because some businesses do not sell cigarettes directly on the takeout platform, but through private contact.

Liu Junhai, a professor at the Law School of Renmin University of China, believes that the takeout platform should timely update the supervision and review mode, strengthen the education and standardization of riders, eliminate the purchase and delivery of cigarette products, and severely punish violators.

It is understood that at present, meituan takeout has handled more than 14000 sensitive words related to cigarettes, more than 15000 offline merchants in recent two years, handled more than 1.33 million illegal commodities, and recently the system automatically identified and deleted more than 270000 cigarette commodities. The US delegation said it would "continue to strengthen manual audit".

The relevant person in charge of the market supervision department of Guangdong Province said that a mechanism for the discovery, supervision and disposal of illegal online tobacco related transactions and information release should be established and improved, and the network supervision department should investigate, deal with and delete relevant illegal information in a timely manner in accordance with the measures for the administration of Internet information services, E-commerce websites and trading platforms shall cooperate with relevant departments to clean up the merchants selling cigarettes online in time according to law. For those who fail to correct after repeated education, the punishment shall be increased from platform punishment to administrative punishment. If the circumstances are serious, those suspected of the crime of illegal operation may face punishment.

Ou Weian, a lawyer of Beijing Tianping (Guangzhou) law firm, suggested that the market supervision department should strengthen the supervision of daily convenience store Internet cigarette sales, especially if illegal sales are found, strictly enforce the law and investigate the legal responsibility of illegal sales businesses.