Is the "bead filter" and "herbal atomizer" playing the edge of electronic cigarettes?

The shape and use are similar to electronic cigarettes

Is the "bead filter" and "herbal atomizer" playing the edge of electronic cigarettes?

　　On February 9 this year, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration stated that it had recently carried out the rectification of flavored e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups" and "coke cans". There were 723,800 "Coke cans" and the amount involved reached 507 million yuan.

　　A reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily recently discovered through some online channels that although the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has just rectified the chaos in the sale of flavored e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups" and "coke cans", there are still some products labeled as "herbal atomizers" and "vapor vaporizers". The products of "Hua Moisturizing Bottle" are sold through social media and other channels.

These products are very similar to electronic cigarettes in terms of appearance and usage.

On March 1, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued a notice to conduct special inspections on the e-cigarette market.

Question one

Is the "popping bead filter" to increase the taste?

　　A reporter from Beiqing Daily saw on an e-commerce platform that some so-called e-cigarette bead filter products were sold on an e-commerce platform.

According to the product introduction, this product is to put fruity popping beads in a product similar to a lid, and then put it into the mouthpiece of the electronic cigarette.

According to its introduction, doing so can change the original tobacco-flavored e-cigarette into a fruity flavor.

A reporter from the Beiqing Daily found that the sales of the above-mentioned products are not low, and the single product link of only one seller has sold more than 10,000.

　　A reporter from the Beiqing Daily noticed that a retail license is required to sell e-cigarettes, and the country has a clear law that "no citizen, legal person or other organization shall sell tobacco monopoly products through the information network", but the Beiqing Daily reporter did not see it in the store. relevant qualifications.

The seller said that they are only selling fruity popping beads and caps, not e-cigarettes or pods. The product is to increase the taste and does not violate the regulations.

The merchant did not respond positively to the Beiqing Daily reporter's inquiry about whether he had sales qualifications.

　　However, some lawyers believe that this type of cigarette holder product is used as an auxiliary device, and its performance when combined with finished cigarettes is no different from that of flavored electronic cigarettes.

The state clearly "prohibits the sale of flavored e-cigarettes other than tobacco flavors". As an auxiliary product for the overall use of finished cigarettes, filter sticks are combined with finished cigarettes to form finished cigarette products. Tobacco management measures."

　　But in fact, there is not only one way to "change the taste" of national standard e-cigarettes on the Internet. Some merchants sell tools to "manually" change the contents of e-cigarette equipment and pods through e-commerce, micro-commerce and other channels. A wide range of complementary products for cleaning and infusing fruity e-liquids.

Question two

Are "herbal atomizers" harmful to health?

　　A reporter from Beiqing Daily found that the so-called "herbal atomizers" sold on some social media platforms rely on "traditional Chinese medicine atomized plant extracts" to attract consumers.

Although the sellers of these products have repeatedly emphasized that these products are not electronic cigarettes, but "atomized throat bottles", "atomized chewing gum" and even "herbal smoking cessation sticks", etc., but because the appearance and use of the products are too similar to electronic cigarettes, Cigarettes are similar, so they are still questioned by many netizens.

The Beiqing Daily reporter noticed that most of the above-mentioned products were released on social media from November to December last year and February this year, after the implementation of the national e-cigarette standard.

　　In addition, a reporter from the Beiqing Daily also found that one of the products claimed to have "dual certificates for food and equipment", but on an e-commerce platform, the product introduction appeared as "solid beverage test" and "bacterial inhibition test" The numbers of the two reports have neither medical device numbers nor other qualification certificates, so it can be said that the goods are not right.

A reporter from Beiqing Daily noticed that although the product has been removed from the above-mentioned e-commerce platform, some people are still selling it on some social media, claiming that it is "0 nicotine and 0 harm", and it is recommended that "do not inhale more than 100 nicotine per day. mouth".

　　"Whether these are e-cigarettes or not, I hope the authoritative department can have an explanation." In some questions, some netizens said that what kind of products are these so-called "atomized throat lozenges" and "herbal smoking cessation sticks" and they are harmful to health. Is there any harm?

focus on

The Tobacco Monopoly Bureau will once again launch a special inspection on e-cigarettes

　　A reporter from Beiqing Daily learned that on March 1, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued the "Notice on Carrying out Special Inspections to Regulate the Order of the Electronic Cigarette Market" ("Notice" for short).

This is after the previous rectification of flavored e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups" and "coke cans". another remedial action.

　　The "Notice" pointed out that there are still e-cigarette manufacturers conducting transactions outside the transaction management platform, and individual retail market players use the Internet and micro-businesses to illegally sell e-cigarettes.

Therefore, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration decided to organize a special inspection to regulate the order of the e-cigarette market.

　　The "Notice" shows that from March 6 to April 25, a comprehensive inspection, clean-up and rectification will be conducted on e-cigarette-related manufacturers, e-cigarette wholesale enterprises, and e-cigarette retail market players.

Hand over clues to problems found in the inspection in a timely manner, investigate and deal with typical cases, solve outstanding problems, establish and improve the "one enterprise (household) one file" supervision account file, and do a good job in follow-up supervision and rectification.

Promote the construction of a national "one game of chess" and a "full chain" of electronic cigarette supervision work in the industry.

Cooperate with local governments, public security, city supervision and other departments to strengthen clue investigation, consultation and research, joint law enforcement, promote joint governance, and strengthen work synergy.

For this special inspection, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration pointed out that it will use comprehensive complaints and reports, market investigations, platform transactions, Internet-related e-cigarettes, e-cigarette logistics and delivery and other regulatory information to identify clues to illegal production and operation, and focus on tracing the source of illegal e-cigarette production .

And timely clean up and remove illegal products on sale.

Illegal acts suspected of constituting crimes are promptly transferred to judicial organs for criminal responsibility in accordance with the law, forming a deterrent and strengthening the quality and efficiency of e-cigarette supervision.

Comprehensively sort out the evidence clues of illegal production and sales of e-cigarettes, focus on regulating the production and operation activities of e-cigarette market players, and create a good environment for promoting the rule of law and standardized governance of the e-cigarette industry.

(Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Xin)