The reporter found out about the smoking hotels around the school and found that students can still take advantage of buying tobacco and alcohol
The sale of tobacco and alcohol to minors is banned, and related governance is tightening.
The Beijing Tobacco Control Association recently released a survey saying that during a tobacco control inspection, it was found that compared with the inspection results from June to October last year, some data have improved, but 12.41% of the cigarette sales points are still 100 meters away from the school. Within range.
The reporter's investigation found that the overall order of the smoking hotels around the Beijing school is relatively good.
However, there are also cases in which there are no warnings or "prohibited" signs for minors in the store, "rebound" in the rectified area, and vending machines selling alcohol.
Experts call for strengthening law enforcement and supervision, and some new forms should be incorporated into supervision based on actual conditions to jointly ensure the healthy growth of minors.
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Tobacco shop is less than 100 meters away from school
"Boss, bring me a pack of cigarettes." At 2:30 in the afternoon, a man in a chef's uniform walked into the Hualian Supermarket diagonally across from Beijing Yuying School. After receiving the cigarette from the salesperson, he walked to the door quickly. It ignited outside, "suffering from the clouds".
In this supermarket, cigarettes of various brands are dazzlingly placed in a glass cabinet under the cash register.
People can see it at a glance as long as they walk into the supermarket door.
Article 20 of the "Beijing Regulations on Smoking Control" stipulates that it is prohibited to sell tobacco products within 100 meters of kindergartens, primary and middle schools, and children's palaces.
According to a map navigation, this supermarket is only 63 meters away from the main entrance of Beijing Yuying School.
"Is there a distance rule for selling cigarettes? I'm not sure." When I heard about the relevant content of the tobacco control regulations, the owner of the tobacco shop first said that he did not know the content of the regulations, and then said that he remembered that a staff member from the Tobacco Bureau came to the shop some time ago Li checked it and seemed to have said that "the distance from the school is not enough to be 100 meters." The staff also took away the tobacco monopoly retail license from the store.
In other words, the store is currently selling cigarettes to the society without the relevant certificates.
Article 20 of the "Beijing Regulations on Smoking Control" also stipulates that tobacco product sellers should set up obvious signs of "smoking is harmful to health" and "not to sell tobacco products to minors" in conspicuous positions of sales places.
The reporter looked around the cash register of the supermarket and found no signs posted.
The boss said that the shop seemed to have posted signs before, and it should be on the outside of the glass cabinet for smoking cigarettes, but for some reason it is no longer there.
"Oh! It was there!" As the reporter was about to leave, the boss pointed to the top of a row of cabinets behind the cash register. It turned out that it was posted on a high place.
It's just that the stickers on the logo have been torn into pieces.
It can be barely recognized from the handwriting that has not been completely torn off. The cabinets did have slogans that read "Smoking is harmful to health" and "Do not sell cigarettes to minors."
Why was this slogan torn off?
When did you tear it?
Facing the reporter's question, the boss became "confused" again, saying that he could not remember, "Maybe it was torn when someone came to check it last time."
Return visit
The problematic cigarette shop has rebounded again
On the official website of the Beijing Tobacco Control Association, there is a "picture of illegal tobacco sales around schools."
The problem points discovered by the Beijing Tobacco Control Association in previous inspections will be clearly marked on this map.
The map shows that during an inspection carried out some time ago, two illegal cigarette sales points were found within 100 meters of the Gucheng Middle School in Shijingshan District.
The reporter recently visited the surrounding area of Gucheng Middle School and found that one of the "fresh fruits and vegetables" supermarkets that had illegally sold cigarettes opened opposite the school's main entrance.
Entering the supermarket, a glass cabinet on the left side of the door is affixed with a "Chinese Tobacco" logo. There are price tags for various cigarettes in the glass cabinet, but no cigarettes are placed.
The staff at the supermarket on the side said that the supermarket used to sell cigarettes, but they are no longer sold, but the cabinet has not been removed.
In addition to this supermarket, a Hualian supermarket near Gucheng Middle School was found to be selling cigarettes illegally.
The reporter visited and found that this supermarket has now been renamed "Jingmei Chain Supermarket".
After a few laps in the supermarket, the reporter did not find any containers selling cigarettes.
"What do you want?" Seeing someone looking around, the clerk took the initiative to ask.
After learning that he wanted to buy cigarettes, the clerk quietly removed a bag of sundries on the container at the door, and there was a box full of cigarettes hidden under the bag.
If it were not for the clerk to take the initiative to open the bag, it would be difficult for customers to notice the presence of cigarettes.
The map navigation shows that this supermarket is only 90 meters away from the main entrance of Gucheng Middle School, which does not meet the relevant distance requirements of the tobacco control regulations.
In addition, the reporter found that the tobacco monopoly retail license posted in the store had expired as early as August 2015.
At the same time, in the "Illegal Tobacco Sales Map", although there are shops showing that they are less than 100 meters away from the school, the remarks state that they have licenses to sell tobacco and are still valid.
Since shops do not meet the distance requirements of the Tobacco Control Regulations, why do they hold a permit to sell tobacco?
The reporter consulted the Tobacco Control Association and the 12313 State Tobacco Monopoly Administration's reporting hotline and learned that this may be related to the time of issuing the certificate.
The Beijing Municipal Smoking Control Regulations was officially implemented on June 1, 2015. If a permit has been issued before the regulations, even if the shop is less than 100 meters away from the school, its permit is still valid.
But the wiring staff also said that when the permit expires, the tobacco bureau will not renew the permit for such shops.
Loophole
Tobacco shop lacks warning signs, vending machines can buy beer
The investigation also found that some smoking hotels generally lack warnings or prohibit minors from purchasing signs.
Among the many tobacco hotel shops in Shijingshan, Haidian, and Xicheng visited by the reporter, only one convenience store in Pen'er Hutong posted a warning "not to sell tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to minors". Other shops No relevant signs were found.
The shops selling cigarettes are often accompanied by the sale of alcohol products, and there are also very few warning signs prohibiting the sale of alcohol to minors in some shops.
Only one convenience store on Xiaomachang Road posted a sign saying "Liquor sales to minors are prohibited".
Diagonally across from the gate of a high school in Xicheng, there is even a "Lunjin" beer store. There is no warning or prohibition sign in the whole store.
In addition to the lack of warning or prohibition signs, some vending machines close to residential areas also provide "windows" for minors to purchase alcoholic products, causing parents to worry.
At least three places in a community outside the East Fifth Ring Road in Chaoyang District have installed vending machines, and each of them contains a variety of brands of beer.
The locations of these beers are mainly on the first and second floors from the bottom of the shelf. There are both individually bottled beers and fully packaged beers.
"Although children are not good at buying alcohol, they always see beer every time they buy yogurt, fruit and snacks, and they don’t feel very good." Some residents said that they don’t know whether vending machines can sell beer. But when he brought his children to buy things before, the child asked curiously, "Is this beer good?"
The reporter found that every vending machine in the community had a business license, a food business permit, and a vending machine public notice.
In the business scope column of the food business license, the products that are written mainly include "pre-packaged food sales, including refrigerated and frozen food; special food sales, only health food..." The reporter called the vending machine customer service On the phone, the customer service staff explained that beer is the type of product that the equipment allows to operate. "It must be allowed to sell, and we will sell it."
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New forms of retail also need supervision
"The bodies of minors are growing and developing, and the harmful substances in tobacco and alcohol are likely to have bad effects on them. It should be strictly prohibited to sell to minors." said Zong Chunshan, director of the Beijing Youth Legal and Psychological Counseling Service Center, especially Nicotine, alcohol, etc., can easily stimulate the brain nervous system of minors and affect physical development.
On the other hand, minors themselves do not have economic income. When their parents will not support the purchase of tobacco and alcohol, conflicts may arise due to tobacco and alcohol expenditures, and serious cases may induce crime.
"Tobacco and alcohol are also a manifestation of subculture, and it is easy for minors to fall into another'circle'."
Zong Chunshan believes that the reason for the illegal sale of tobacco and alcohol is mainly due to insufficient enforcement and supervision.
At the same time, the new form of vending machines should also be included in the scope of law enforcement and supervision based on actual conditions.
"The Law on the Protection of Minors, as well as the relevant departments of Beijing, have issued many management regulations concerning the protection of minors' rights and interests. However, in order to maximize profits, some businesses do not hesitate to violate relevant laws and regulations. As long as the law enforcement is in place. It’s not complicated to deal with.” Zong Chunshan suggested that in addition to increasing law enforcement, government departments should strengthen the implementation and supervision of law enforcement.
As for the situation of vending machines selling alcohol in the community, he believes that this is a new phenomenon, "it shows that there are loopholes in the implementation of the policy, which needs to be improved."
Our reporter Li Songlin Mo Fan