The regulations prohibiting the use of electronic cigarettes in public are coming out.
In the previous article, I appealed to vape users not to smoke vapes in public. Although there were no relevant policies in China at that time, from the attention drawn by vape users in public smoking vapes, It is quite unsuitable to use electronic cigarettes in public.
A few days ago, I saw another news about vapes. According to news reports, a girl smoked vapes in the subway and was advised by the next uncle, but the girl argued that vapes were not smoke. Do you think that such a scene is very familiar, and the explanations of users who smoke vapes are also very uniform, that is, vapes are not smoke, so they are not controlled by laws and regulations.
Obviously, most people think that it is possible to smoke vapes in public because vapes are not cigarettes, so there is no control. It is obviously unrealistic to want everyone to voluntarily ban the use of electronic cigarettes in public, and those who use electronic cigarettes in public will feel that they are losing money. After all, it is legally impossible to find electronic use in public. Smoke regulations.
Today, Hangzhou has revised their cigarette control regulations. The latest amendment to the "Hangzhou Public Places Control Smoking Regulations" has included electronic cigarettes in the scope of tobacco control. The new tobacco control regulations will be implemented on January 1, 2019, that is, It is said that there are clear regulations that do not allow vapes to be used in public.
Moreover, the new regulations stipulate that the scope of smoking-free places is not only "the urban area of the city of Hangzhou and the county (city) government, but is extended to the "Hangzhou administrative area", that is, the entire Hangzhou area is under control.
This time, with the beginning of Hangzhou, from the trend point of view, other domestic tobacco control cities will follow up, but the Hangzhou government has also included vapes in the scope of tobacco control, and in the definition of smoking, in front of vapes Adding the word "harmful", in April, when the "Revised Draft" was published, this definition was highly controversial and has not changed in the official version.
In Article 34 of the official new regulations, “smoking refers to the inhalation, exhalation of tobacco smoke or harmful electronic smoke mist, and the holding of ignited tobacco products.”
It is not appropriate to add the word "harmful" in front of cigarettes, but to add "harmful" words in front of vapes that are healthier than cigarettes.