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Keeping teens away from tobacco can't ignore e-cigarettes

Keeping teens away from tobacco can't ignore e-cigarettes

2022-06-16

On May 31, the 35th World No Tobacco Day, the Shanghai Municipal Health Promotion Committee Office released the core data of the 2021 Adult and Youth Tobacco Epidemic Survey in this city. The latest data show that: the adult smoking rate in this city has been stable with some decline. It has been on a downward trend for 11 consecutive years since the tobacco control legislation in 2010. In 2021, the adult smoking rate is 19.4%; the use rate of e-cigarettes continues to rise, especially among young people. highlight.

E-cigarettes are also cigarettes, and vaping is also harmful to health. However, under the marketing words such as "smoking cessation", "health" and "trend", not everyone can understand the harm of electronic cigarettes, especially for young people, it is more confusing. E-cigarettes also have a "entry effect" that may make non-smokers addicted to nicotine and then try traditional tobacco.


The data shows that the proportion of middle school students in this city smoking cigarettes is 1.0% (1.4% in 2019), and the proportion of university students in this city is 4.5%; the current e-cigarette usage rate of middle school students is 1.7% (1.2% in 2019) , the proportion who have ever used e-cigarettes is 6.3% (4.9% in 2019); the current e-cigarette use rate of college students is 2.6%, and the proportion who have ever used e-cigarettes is 8.6%. It can be seen that among the middle school students in this city, the use rate of electronic cigarettes has "come from behind", surpassing cigarettes. I am afraid that the "first puff" of many teenagers is no longer cigarettes, but electronic cigarettes.


To keep young people away from tobacco, we cannot ignore the "come from behind" of e-cigarettes. At present, the situation that electronic cigarettes are free from supervision is changing. The "Administrative Measures for Electronic Cigarettes" will be implemented on May 1, 2022, and the national standards for "Electronic Cigarettes" will be implemented on October 1. For example, the national standard clearly stipulates: "Electronic cigarettes should not be inductive to minors, and should not make the product characteristic flavors other than tobacco." And the 2021 Chinese middle school and college students' tobacco epidemic monitoring released by the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention The results show that among middle school students who use e-cigarettes, the most commonly used flavor is fruit flavor (63.8%). The "breaking sweet" of electronic cigarettes can be said to hit the "crucial point".


Management measures and national standards for electronic cigarettes have been introduced, and the key lies in their implementation. The above-mentioned monitoring results released by China CDC show that the relevant policy of not selling cigarettes and electronic cigarettes to minors has not been effectively implemented. Tobacco control publicity and law enforcement still need to continue to intensify efforts to protect the healthy growth of young people.


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