Why is the smoking cessation effect of vapes so questionable?
There are about 350 million smokers in China, accounting for one-third of the world's total, and an increase of about 15 million every five years. The average smoker smokes 15.2 cigarettes per day, and an additional 1 cigarette can be added every five years. The price of tobacco is also rising year by year. At present, the cigarettes on the market are basically more than 10 yuan, and it was difficult to buy cigarettes for a few yuan in the past. This shows how huge the sales volume of Chinese tobacco is.
There is no doubt that smoking is harmful to health. More than 1 million people die each year from tobacco-related diseases in China, and one person dies every 30 seconds due to smoking. Even taking safety measures won't help. From 1982 to 1988, a study covering 940,000 people in the United States found that smokers who smoked different tar-filtered cigarettes had the same risk of dying from lung cancer. Adding a filter to smoking is just a psychological effect. According to the forecast of the World Bank, if tobacco control is not strengthened, the number of lung cancer patients in China will increase to 7.4 million by 2030.
Maybe you have seen that the country encourages smoking cessation, but in fact, no one wants you to quit smoking except your family and you. Under the circumstance that China has joined the "Framework Convention on Tobacco Control", various cigarette brand advertisements are still active: from "Liqun"'s "forever benefiting the masses", "letting the mind travel", "Hongtashan"'s "high mountains and man-made peaks"" Trends come and go, only classics last forever", to "Furong King"'s "transmitting value, achieving you and me", and even the crazy vape advertisements "Women can enjoy the joy of smoking", enticing people to smoke.
What a beautiful and fresh advertising slogan, I can't believe this is an advertisement for cigarettes, the culprit of lung cancer. In 2017, our tobacco industry achieved a total tax profit of 1,114.51 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.932 billion yuan, an increase of 3.24%, and a gross profit margin of 71.3%. Tax profits exceeded 1 trillion yuan, and the national fiscal revenue this year was only 17 trillion yuan. In Yunnan, an important tobacco town, the tobacco industry contributes more than 45% to the province's finances.
You may be treated differently in different countries in the face of interests. In 2008, the Cynthia family in the United States sued Reynolds Tobacco, the second largest tobacco company. The reason is that the latter deliberately concealed the health hazards of cigarettes. Six years later, the court awarded Reynolds $23.6 billion in damages. At the same time that Cynthia received the verdict, a smoker in a certain country also received a verdict. He previously believed that a tobacco company's promotion of "low tar, low harm" was suspected of fraud, and the company appealed and claimed 250 yuan. Unfortunately, he was a little unlucky and was sentenced to lose the case. At the same time, Reynolds Tobacco, which has lost the case in the United States, is shouting injustice: "The damages are seriously excessive, which is not allowed by the law." It can be seen from the above that even if the smoking cessation effect of vapes is very good, there may be cases of resistance. , it is clear that someone is defending the interests of tobacco.
In addition, there were many problems with vapes at the beginning, such as safety. When vapes were in the blank area of supervision, the quality and parameters were uneven, and there were no industry standards. There was a mechanical rod type vape. The vape uses the 18650 lithium battery to directly supply power to the heating wire without the control circuit. Because there is no safe discharge control, the performance of the heating wire may be uneven, and this vape will have the danger of explosion. Due to the large capacity of the 18650 lithium battery The explosion power is not small. The explosion cases of this kind of vape that can be seen on the Internet all show that the damage to the user is huge, so the vape has been criticized for its own shortcomings.
The original intention of vapes at the beginning was indeed to quit smoking. By slowly reducing the nicotine content in the vape liquid, the effect of getting rid of nicotine was achieved. However, which smoker has such a high level of consciousness that he can actively reduce the nicotine content? Coupled with some criticisms of vapes, it is obvious that the road to popularization of the smoking cessation effect of vapes will be difficult and tortuous.
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