Why Adults Should Be Banned From Buying Vape
The return of vape to the Chinese market is a vape market dominated by fancy smoke. Vape fancy smoke is a street culture. It is new and cool, and it is very popular with minors, so minors have become very vape. large user base. In order to prevent minors from using electronic eyes, on August 28, 2018, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration jointly issued a notice "Prohibiting the sale of vape to minors", prohibiting businesses from selling vape to minors.
The first reason why vape was controlled was the ban on the use of electronic eyes by minors, mainly because the national standard for vape has not been officially promulgated in China. Process design, quality control and other aspects are highly arbitrary, the quality of vape products is uneven, and some products may have potential quality and safety hazards such as e-liquid leakage, inferior batteries, and unsafe ingredients.
The circular not only designs vape, but also emphasizes that market entities are not allowed to sell vape to minors. According to regulations, businesses are prohibited from producing and selling candy, snacks, toys or any other physical objects in the shape of tobacco products that are attractive to minors.
After the announcement, e-commerce platforms have removed related products such as vape and e-liquid one after another, and closed stores for vape that slapped the edge. , do not show vape products to minors, and do our best to block the channels for minors to buy vape.
In recent years, although "tobacco control orders" have been issued in various places, smoking is not allowed in public places such as restaurants, Internet cafes, bus stops, offices, etc., but most of them do not explicitly prohibit vape. Most regions define the goal of tobacco control regulations only to apply to cigarettes that can be lit, and vape is not within the scope of tobacco control. Such an unclear positioning also makes many minors think that vape is not a cigarette, and listening to some merchants' introduction of harmlessness, etc., makes the sales of vape more popular among minors.
The popularity of vape has caused a large number of cigarette smokers to switch to purchasing vape products, so as to achieve the purpose of smoking indoors. But this situation is also true in reverse, that is, after minors use vape, it may cause minors to start smoking cigarettes. Although the data in this regard is not yet complete, it has to be guarded against.
The degree of harm of vape to the human body has also been controversial. Most businesses also admit that vape is harmful to some extent. They believe that vape is less harmful than cigarettes, so as a substitute for cigarettes, vape is undoubtedly safer. Even so, everyone can see that the price of vape on the market is very different. Such a price difference also represents the level of quality, and the purchasing power of minors is low, and some inferior vape may eventually flow into the hands of minors.
With vape smoking on the Internet, videos of blowing smoke patterns often get a high number of hits, and vape smoking has gradually formed a street culture, which has spread among young people in recent years. The exposure of vape among minors is increasing, so the announcement to prohibit minors from purchasing vape is timely and necessary.