Cigarette smoke is exposed to the tobacco control bill

"Look, I smoked!" The elementary school boy named Xiao Jin (a pseudonym) took a piece out of the "smoke" box with the "KENT" LOGO printed in his mouth. From time to time, he made a dingy move. Cool in front of you. The Yangcheng Evening News reporter was surprised at the scene he saw on the Guangzhou subway. When he took a closer look, he learned that it was candy that the pupils “pulled”. But where does this smoke-shaped candy come from? Can this kind of candy bring primary school students nutrition and education?

From afar, the candy looks very handsome. The appearance of the candies in the hand is almost the same as that of the smoke—long strips, hexagons, the first half is white, and the latter half is pale orange. Even its packaging shells imitate the cigarette's packaging box. There are five boxes in one box. If you don't look closely at the "honey pharyngol sugar," it's easy to misunderstand that it's a pack of cigarettes.

Xiao Jin mouth to see, and the other two students also asked him two. "Looking like a cigarette at a distance, it's sugar, and it's very special to eat." Xiao Han (a pseudonym) said while imitating smoking. He told reporters that boys in the class liked the snacks and it felt like "adults" smoked.

The small shop next to the school sold 30 boxes in a small shop across the road from a primary school in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. When asked if there was any smoke-shaped candy to sell, the boss immediately took out a box of “3·5” LOGO trademarks, asking for 5 hairs. money. In this small shop, the smoke-shaped candies were placed in front of the cash register and there were various small snacks next to them. “This row of candy is selling well and the price is very cheap. They are all around $1.” The owner revealed that cigarette-shaped candies One day can sell 30 to 40 boxes, is the goods from Panyu Bridge, "a box to earn a few cents."

Around 11 am, schools near the shops were out of school, and the shops were almost “pushed” by primary school students. The reporter bought two boxes of smoke-type sugar and stood by the road. After passing through the students, they saw: “You must be buying nearby.” The reporter asked how to know, and they said with pride: Everyone knows which store in the vicinity sells. Kind of candy.

Cigarette smoke contravenes the Tobacco Control Convention

The cigarette-shaped candy packaging ingredients list says that in addition to glucose, it also contains citric acid, sunset yellow, orange flavor, temptation red, and bright blue. The reporter interviewed Yan Huawei, deputy director of the Department of Nutrition at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. He said: "In addition to glucose, these ingredients are food additives, and they are food additives. Long-term consumption is harmful to children's health."

Yuan Ailing, a professor and doctoral tutor of the South China Normal University’s Academy of Education, said that the shape of cigarettes made by merchants is not an act of social responsibility. Smoke is a negative thing that is harmful to health and requires students to stay away. Combining negative things with students’ favorite sugars will undermine students’ correct understanding of tobacco, increase their curiosity, and easily mislead students into smoking.

According to Qiu Hengyi, a lawyer of the Beijing Yingke (Guangzhou) Law Firm, which provides juvenile legal assistance for a long time, China has officially signed the "Framework Convention on Tobacco Control", which has come into effect since 2006. Among other things, the convention prohibits the production and sale of candies, snacks, toys or any other object in the form of tobacco products that are attractive to minors. In addition, the packaging of smoke-shaped candy is equal to encouraging students to smoke in contravention of legal principles.

Manufacturers certify that the packaging of the complete smoke-shaped candies is printed with a production date, the product type is a solid-type tablet candy, and the product standard number and food production license are also indicated. The reporters logged into the China QS Inquiries Network and the Engineering Standards Network, respectively, and inquired that the manufacturer was registered as Guosi Weishili Food Factory, Chaoan Town, Chaoan County, which was consistent with the manufacturers printed on the packaging box. On the 20th, the reporter called the manufacturer according to the telephone number on the packing box. The male staff who answered the phone said that all kinds of licenses were complete. This candy has been produced for a long time and there are no problems.