Is it appropriate to increase the minimum age for smoking to 20 years old?

In 2018, when you open a website that specializes in selling vape or e-liquid products, when you first log in, you will find that the website pops up a young OK button. If you choose a button under the age of 18, then you will exit directly The site, and after choosing more than 18, you can officially visit the site.

But after 2019, you will find that when you open some nets that specialize in selling vape or e-liquid products, you will find that the pop-up dialog box has mentioned 18 years old and 20 years old. Obviously, some regions have already Started to mention the age of buying and smoking to 20 years old.

In fact, it is not appropriate to set the smoking age to 18 years old. I believe that the local governments have set the smoking age to 18 years old. That is because the 18-year-old is already an adult, and adults have the ability to judge things, and the body has already Basically mature, so 18 years old is set as a smoking age makes sense.

However, the actual situation is very unreasonable, why? That's because 18-year-old minors are basically in high school. The age of high school is roughly between 16-20 years old. If you let 18-year-old students smoke, it is easy to drive other students under 18 years to smoke, not to mention now. Many high schools and junior high schools are in the same school, so that 18-year-old students smoking will also promote the smoking situation of these minors between 13-16 years old.

In the student days I experienced, cigarettes are very easy to obtain. Students can buy cigarettes in any shop, and they can also buy one by one. At that time, the smoking of senior students led to the smoking of lower grade students. The situation is very serious, and many students think that smoking is cool, and even think that smoking is a fashionable behavior.

It is this combination of inadequate control and the fact that schools are very easy to drive smoking, making the situation of smoking in China's young age increasingly serious. The intensity of smoking control varies from region to region, but raising the smoking age should eliminate student smoking to a minimum.

Is it reasonable to set the smoking age at 20? I think it's reasonable that 20-year-old is more mature than 18-year-old, and this age is already at the age of college. You can get married at college, not to mention smoking, right!

Let us look at the situation in Singapore. From January 2020, the minimum age for Singapore to legally purchase, own or use tobacco products will be increased from 19 to 20 years old. This is not the first time Singapore has raised the minimum age for smoking. In fact, it has already been raised in 2019.

Bans alone are not enough. Strict control and punishment measures are required, and they are very strict in Singapore. such as:

For businesses that violate the smoking ban, first-time offenders will be fined up to 5,000 yuan and their licenses will be suspended, while recidivists will be fined up to 10,000 yuan and their licenses revoked.

If the public gives any younger than the minimum legal age cigarettes, once convicted, first offenders will be fined up to 500 yuan, repeat offenders will be fined up to 1,000 yuan. The notice also pointed out that if you help young people buy cigarettes, first offenders will be fined up to 2,500 yuan, and recidivists will be fined up to 5,000 yuan.

Anyone under the age of 20 who purchases, owns or uses tobacco products before January 1, 2020, is in violation of the smoking ban, and may be fined up to 300 yuan.

At present, there is no punishment for helping minors purchase cigarettes or handing cigarettes to minors in our country. This shows that our tobacco control is not strict enough. I hope that the country can come up with specific measures as soon as possible to improve the smoking status of minors.

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