Yugan County, Jiangxi strengthens vaping market regulation with full-coverage inspections and crackd

As the regulation of e-cigarettes continues to strengthen, new types of e-cigarette products with novel appearances, such as "milk tea cups" and "cola cans," have entered the market, attempting to exploit loopholes for illegal profits. These e-cigarette products vary in quality, pose significant safety risks, and have highly deceptive appearances, making them easy to entice minors to use, which poses a serious threat to their physical and mental health.

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To effectively rectify the order of the e-cigarette market and protect the healthy growth of minors, the Yugan County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau in Jiangxi has strengthened the regulation of the e-cigarette market. They have collaborated with market regulatory departments to conduct comprehensive inspections of the e-cigarette retail market in their jurisdiction, thoroughly clearing illegal e-cigarette products. They have also promoted laws and regulations such as the "Minor Protection Law" and the "E-cigarette Management Measures" to various e-cigarette operators, guiding and educating them to strictly implement identity verification requirements and proactively refuse requests from minors to purchase e-cigarettes.

Furthermore, they have posted warning signs stating "Prohibition of sales of cigarettes and e-cigarettes to minors," along with the document "Notice on Further Protecting Minors from E-cigarette Harm" and relevant reporting phone numbers, to educate the public about the illegality of e-cigarettes and their dangers to minors, actively creating a good social atmosphere for protecting the legitimate rights and interests of minors.

They are actively collaborating with public security and market regulation departments, jointly dispatching law enforcement personnel to conduct surprise inspections of all e-cigarette operators in the county, focusing on areas where minors, such as primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, are concentrated. They are cracking down on illegal activities such as selling e-cigarettes to minors and using vending machines and other new sales channels to sell e-cigarettes, with a focus on strengthening supervision around areas that have previously sold e-cigarettes and near schools, maintaining a high-pressure control over e-cigarettes.

In the next step, the Yugan County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau will continue to promote the in-depth development of e-cigarette regulation, diligently focusing on the cleanup of key areas, key fields, and key links, and establishing a long-term mechanism for e-cigarette regulation to better protect minors from e-cigarette harm.