Recently, because friends often asked Vietnam's electronic cigarette consumer market and import relevant regulations, the author began to pay attention to the management and consumption of Vietnam in this category.

I saw a data today. Although it is not entirely the content of electronic cigarettes, it is also shocked and deliberately sorted out the main content and shared it with you.

This data was disclosed by the Ministry of Information and Communication of Vietnam. On the morning of November 23, they organized a seminar to study information about the current status, challenges and solutions about the current situation of tobacco hazards prevention.

The meeting said that the rate of smoking of Vietnamese ranked 15th in the world. Vietnamese smokers are expected to spend 49 trillion Vietnamese shields to buy cigarettes per year. Based on the current RMB and Vietnamese shield exchange rate 3400, about 14.4 billion yuan.

Hu Honghai, deputy director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam, said that Vietnam is not a developed country, but the proportion of smokers is ranked 15th in the world, which is about 15.6 million smokers.

According to Ruan Qiuxiang of the Tobacco Harm of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, using tobacco is one of the main causes of diseases and premature deaths. Tobacco contains 7,000 chemicals, including 69 carcinogens, which are the main causes of 25 diseases (such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory and reproductive diseases).

At the same time, 5 of the 25 diseases caused by tobacco (lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, upper respiratory tract cancer, chronic obstructive lung cancer, myocardial infarction, stroke) treatment costs account for 1%of Vietnam's GDP. This ratio is also high globally, between 1-2%.

Recently, the Division of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam solicited opinions from all parties, and plans to adjust the medical service charging standards of grass -roots hospitals from 2023. Among them, the daily examination and hospitalization expenses of each bed and first -level public hospitals can be charged up to 3 million Yuenan Shield (880 yuan)/day, which does not include medical expenses and medical technology services -this move causes controversy, no, no, no Shao Vietnam netizens bombarded the standard too high.

Vietnam dies every year more than 40,000 people die from tobacco. If Vietnam does not effectively prevent tobacco hazards, this number will increase to 70,000 cases per year by 2030. Vietnam's deaths every year due to tobacco are almost 4 times the number of deaths of road traffic accidents.

In addition, it is important to pay attention to the decline in the proportion of smoking in Vietnamese, but the proportion of women's smoking has signs signs of growth.

In addition, the proportion of new smokers in Vietnam is also a very disturbing number. Although it is not high, it has increased rapidly among young people. The new smoking rate in 2020 increased 18 times over 2015, from 0.2%to 3.6%, of which men increased 14 times and women increased by 10 times.

The WHO's representative of Vietnam on behalf of Angela Prate said that the price of tobacco in Vietnam was incredible.

"With the current Vietnamese tobacco price, it is difficult to become a obstacle to young people to develop smoking habits." The Vietnamese representative of the WHO believes that increasing tobacco tax will be the fastest and most economical way to restrict the current smoking speed.

Economic losses caused by Tobacco in Vietnam are estimated to exceed 24 trillion yuan each year (7 billion yuan). These losses include the cost of disease treatment, the loss caused by the loss of labor, and the loss caused by Vietnam's premature death.

According to the current law of Vietnam, the consumption tax of tobacco is equivalent to 70%of the factory price. However, when the taxes of retail prices are calculated according to international standards, Vietnam's proportion (including VAT) accounts for only about 35.6%. This ratio is far lower than 56%of the world average, lower than most ASEAN countries.

According to the estimates of the WHO, if the price of tobacco rises by 10%, the average tobacco consumption of high -income countries will decrease by 4%, and low -income countries will decrease by 5%.

In particular, increasing tobacco taxes are particularly effective for reducing smoking of minors. It is expected that when the tobacco tax is increased and the price increases by 10%, the consumption decrease rate of this group is also 10%or higher.

Another important thing is to increase the tobacco duty and increase the national fiscal revenue. According to WHO estimates, if the price of each package of cigarettes increases by an average of $ 0.8, governments around the world can levy $ 141 billion from tobacco taxes.

From the contribution of consumption tax to the national fiscal budget, it can be seen that tobacco products accounted for relatively large, and about 18.56%from 2012-2020.

Vietnamese tobacco consumption tax income increased from 11.93 trillion in 2012 to the 1.426 trillion Vietnam Shield in 2020. At the same time, in 2020, the tobacco industry enterprises paid taxes of 18.5 trillion yuan, and this figure exceeded 200 trillion in 2021.

Therefore, many experts in Vietnam have suggested that tobacco taxes need to be increased.

In addition, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam proposes to ban all new types of tobacco.

In addition to traditional tobacco, experts also believe that the new generation of tobacco is sought after by young people and should be prohibited. In addition, Chen Shizhuang, deputy director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Health, said that new cigarettes, including electronic cigarettes and low -temperature cigarettes (heating non -burning cigarettes), mainly entered Vietnam through smuggling and entry carrying.

These new types of tobacco products are quite popular on social networks, and Vietnamese consumers can easily purchase illegally on the Internet (e -commerce platform) and social networking sites.

"However, the current Vietnamese" Tobacco Harm Prevention Law "does not make clear regulations on electronic cigarettes and low -temperature cigarettes. Only the" Tobacco National Technical Specification "issued by the Ministry of Health of Vietnam. Electronic cigarettes and low -temperature cigarettes, Chen Shizhuang said.

Regarding electronic cigarettes, Vietnam has not yet officially approved its business operations, but electronic cigarettes are selling and large -scale marketing on e -commerce and social media, and Vietnam's "Tobacco Harm Prevention Law" does not work.

In front of a large -scale office building in Lizhu Street, Ho Chi Minh City, I saw the front hall of a group of people gathered together and chatted while smoking. Two of them were sucking electronic cigarettes. cigarette. After the inquiry, they learned that they had smoked for more than 5 years and recently started to turn to electronic cigarettes and low -temperature cigarettes.

Each cigarette is harmful, but these electronic cigarettes that claim to use new technologies are considered different from the usual burning cigarettes, and they are considered to be lower than traditional cigarettes. Said, this is why he turned to the use of electronic cigarettes.

However, it was previously purchased by acquaintances from Europe, and occasionally invited friends to help overseas buying, but many electronic cigarettes that have been sold online recently have flooded disasters, and they are unknown. He feels uneasy about the quality of electronic cigarettes on the current black market.

Recently, a survey by a Vietnamese media on more than 2,000 people showed that the proportion of Vietnamese people who knew or used electronic cigarettes was as high as 97%. Earlier, in August 2022, a survey by another Vietnamese media showed that 70%of the 2,000 18 -year -old traditional cigarette smokers said that if they are beneficial to themselves and the community, they are willing to transition to alternative products, such as electronic cigarettes to reduce the damage to smoking cigarettes.

At present, many platforms in Vietnam can buy electronic cigarettes, and express cigarettes have not included electronic cigarettes on the embargo list, but perhaps in the near future, new regulations for this sector will be introduced.