experts in china are calling for the control of electronic cigarettes, as the public lacks 1 of the potential health effects of vaping, reports thepaper.cn.
中国的专家们呼吁对电子烟进行控制，因为公众对电子烟潜在的健康威胁缺乏认知。
invented by a chinese pharmacist in 2003, e-cigarettes are commonly believed to be safer than tobacco cigarettes and may help
2 quit. but some experts are warning that e-cigarettes are not harmless, and have called into question their usefulness in
3 people to stop smoking.
e-cigarettes usually contains
4, which makes
5 smoke from e-cigarettes harmful, according to zhang jianshu, president of the beijing tobacco control association.
and professor cui xiaobo from capital medical university said that e-cigarettes can be an ineffective smoking cessation aid. this is because breaking the addition to smoking involves breaking the
6 to nicotine, which is found in both regular cigarettes and e-cigarettes. professor cui also said that research shows young people start using e-cigarettes because they are fashionable, but then often start smoking regular cigarettes.
there are currently no regulations on e-cigarettes in china when it comes to tobacco control, health care, or production management. and the use of e-cigarettes is not prohibited in public places, because it is not categorized as a tobacco product.
the general public has started to pay more attention to the use of e-cigarettes after several recent incidents. last month, an air china co-pilot sent a plane into an emergency descent after he turned off the plane's air supply so he could use an e-cigarette. and earlier this week, a passenger used an e-cigarette in a beijing subway carriage, sparking complaints.
"we are currently calling for the relevant departments to introduce a regulation to
7 and control e-cigarettes, and make it prohibited like tobacco is in public place," said zhang jianshu.
some individual cities have taken steps to regulate e-cigarettes. in one example, authorities in hangzhou have included
8 or
9 harmful
10 under the definition of smoking.
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