Campaign to Protect Minors from Tobacco Harm in Ji'an City

In order to further protect minors from the harm of smoking, maintain their physical health and legal rights, the tobacco monopoly bureau in Ji'an City, along with the city's supervision bureau and education bureau, jointly conducted promotion and remediation activities targeting the sale of cigarettes without a license within their jurisdiction and surrounding shops near primary and secondary schools at the beginning of the autumn semester.

Smoke-free Environment Protects Campus

In order to protect minors' healthy growth, the tobacco monopoly bureau in Ji'an City has established clear regulations and measurement standards for the distance around schools. These standards take into account local consumption demands while also strictly enforcing measures to keep minors away from the harms of tobacco.

The tobacco monopoly bureau in Ji'an city has conducted a comprehensive investigation of retail license holders around school campuses and established a working ledger. They have carried out counseling and clearing actions on cigarette retailers within the limited distance around primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and implemented a "list-based management" approach for other retailers outside the distance limit. The bureau actively encouraged licensed retailers around the campuses to voluntarily withdraw and relaxed the certification requirements for those who moved their businesses. The licenses of those who continue to operate at the original location will not be renewed upon expiration. The bureau will also implement dynamic supervision for these retail operations.

Publicize and guide joint protection.

During retail inspections, inspectors from the Jigang Tobacco Monopoly Bureau in Ji'an City often remind shop owners, "Your store is not far from the school, so please do not sell cigarettes to minors." Since the beginning of this year, the Bureau has conducted extensive public education activities in stores, communities, and schools, using various methods to promote the "Law on the Protection of Minors," the "Tobacco Monopoly Law," and electronic cigarette regulations. The Bureau has also organized personnel to post warning signs such as "Sales of cigarettes and e-cigarettes to minors are prohibited" in prominent locations within cigarette retailers’ stores. Additionally, retailers who have missing or damaged signs are required to repost them in prominent locations. The objective is to firmly establish awareness of protecting minors and to improve retailers’ awareness of complying with the law, ensuring that they do not sell cigarettes to minors, and creating a healthy environment for minors to grow up in.

Strong regulatory enforcement focus" or "Crackdown with stringent regulations

Hu Zhiping, head of the electronic cigarette supervision office in Ji'an City Bureau, stated that "nowadays, electronic cigarettes are becoming increasingly tempting to young people. We are closely monitoring and adhering to a 'zero tolerance' policy towards the sale of cigarettes to minors, building a comprehensive online and offline regulatory 'protective wall'." To further strengthen regulation, the Ji'an City Tobacco Monopoly Bureau actively organized a special law enforcement action to protect minors. They comprehensively used methods such as "double random, one open" supervision and key supervision, and made school surroundings a key supervision area. They worked with market supervision, public security and other law enforcement departments to carry out a special action for comprehensive rectification of the market around schools. With the use of spot checks, cross checks, and surprise checks, they dealt with illicit and illegal activities related to tobacco, with a focus on cracking down on the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. They widely publicized the "12313" reporting and supervision telephone line and mobilized all sectors of society to jointly monitor the purchase of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes by minors.

The head of the tobacco monopoly office in Ji'an City, Luo Taiyong, has announced that following the joint crackdown prior to the start of the school year, they will establish a long-term mechanism for regulating both online and offline monitoring. This mechanism will have increased supervision of whether operators around schools are involved in illegal sales of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and related products. In addition, they will continue to investigate whether unlicensed vendors near primary and secondary schools are selling cigarettes and will strictly investigate any illegal sales of e-cigarettes to minors in order to protect them and promote a smoke-free environment for minors.

This article excerpts or reproduces content from third-party sources, whose copyrights belong to the original media and authors. If there is any infringement, please contact us for deletion. Any unit or individual that needs to reprint should contact the author instead of directly reproducing the content.