Lanzhou Cracks Down on Illegal Sales of Vaping Products to Minors
[This report] Recently, the Chengguan District Tobacco Monopoly Bureau has focused on the newly emerging "milk tea cup" and "cola can" types of e-cigarettes, which have complex components, strong concealment, and are easy to carry, posing greater harm to minors. In conjunction with the national "E-cigarette Management Measures," the special governance of e-cigarettes has been established as a key focus to protect minors from tobacco products, establishing a long-term governance mechanism. To severely crack down on illegal sales of e-cigarettes to minors, especially middle and primary school students, and effectively protect minors from the harm of e-cigarettes.
On March 10, the Chengguan District Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, in conjunction with the Chengguan District People's Procuratorate, Chengguan Public Security Bureau, and Chengguan District Education Bureau, held a meeting to establish a long-term working mechanism to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. They released the "Four-party Cooperation" document to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and provided a special explanation on the implementation of the document; the heads of the four departments jointly signed the "Four-party Cooperation, Protecting the Future" agreement to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors; responsible leaders from each unit and some representatives of primary and secondary school principals made special speeches.
The procuratorial organs carry out supervisory work in accordance with the law, fully utilizing administrative public interest litigation pre-litigation suggestions, social governance-related procuratorial suggestions, and other means to actively perform their duties, urging relevant functional departments to investigate and deal with illegal activities in accordance with the law. Strengthening supervision over the approval and issuance of tobacco monopoly licenses in the jurisdiction. The public security organs intervene in advance in cases involving minors and e-cigarettes, and strictly review and handle them according to the law, cooperating with the education department to continuously carry out anti-smoking publicity and education in schools. The tobacco monopoly administrative department, upon receiving or discovering clues about illegal sales of e-cigarettes to minors, promptly initiates investigations and imposes administrative penalties. The public security organs severely crack down on e-cigarette cases involving illegal production, illegal operation, and "head e-cigarettes." The education department organizes schools to carry out legal regulations and anti-smoking publicity, checking for instances of students purchasing and using e-cigarettes, and feeding back relevant clues to the tobacco monopoly administrative department.
Lanzhou Daily Media Reporter Zhang Shuo
