The World Health Organization recently released the "Global Tobacco Epidemic Report 2019", stating that "Although no conclusive assessment has been made on the specific risks triggered by e-cigarettes, there is no doubt that e-cigarettes are harmful." The report reminds governments and consumers not to trust the tobacco companies' propaganda about e-cigarettes and other products. The claims that "e-cigarettes are less harmful" are just the propaganda strategies of tobacco companies, and the supervision of the e-cigarette market should be strengthened.

A week before the WHO released the above report, the National Health Commission of China held a press conference. The Office of the Healthy China Action Promotion Committee explained the situation of the "Healthy China Action" tobacco control action, revealing that the National Health Commission is working with relevant departments to carry out The research on e-cigarette supervision plans to pass legislation to supervise e-cigarettes.

Both the WHO report and the press conference of the National Health Commission revealed the "marketing skills" of e-cigarette merchants. For example, the tobacco giant Philip & Morris International, through the so-called "non-burning cigarettes" campaign, tried to establish the image of a public health partner, but it was actually promoting its electronic cigarettes and other products. Many businesses promote e-cigarettes, often claiming that e-cigarettes have less health hazards than traditional cigarettes and can assist smoking cessation, giving smokers a false perception that they can solve their addiction without harming their health and can help quit smoking. In fact, not only do e-cigarettes do not harm health as they say, but because the aerosol they produce contains many toxic and harmful substances, the health hazards of traditional cigarettes have not been reduced. At the same time, electronic cigarette appliances still have safety risks such as battery explosion, smoke penetration, high temperature burns, etc., which are more likely to cause harm to the health of smokers.

In view of the objective health hazards of e-cigarette smoking and the safety risks of e-cigarettes, many countries have adopted legislation to position e-cigarettes as tobacco products. Tobacco is strictly controlled. In contrast, due to the short birth time of e-cigarettes, my country has not had time to make legislative preparations for the supervision of e-cigarettes. Not only has it not issued relevant standards for e-cigarettes, nor has it positioned the attributes of e-cigarettes, resulting in both e-cigarettes. It is not medicines or health products, neither medical devices nor tobacco, but has become a fashionable commodity that has become popular in the market. In the context where there are more and more e-cigarette smokers, especially young people, and it has become a basic consensus that e-cigarettes harm public health, it is obviously imperative to legislate to strengthen the supervision of e-cigarettes.

Legislating to supervise e-cigarettes is a basic requirement for clarifying the positioning attributes of e-cigarettes and preventing them from "barbarous growth". Since scientific research has shown that e-cigarettes are as harmful to health as traditional cigarettes, it is reasonable to pass laws to position e-cigarettes as tobacco products. Only by positioning its attributes as tobacco products rather than ordinary commodities in accordance with the law, can the production and sales of e-cigarettes be included in the scope of tobacco control. In this way, merchants will stop stepping on the red line due to the locked-in legal "bridle" during marketing, so that the proliferation of e-cigarettes in the market can be effectively curbed with the positioning of legal attributes, which will help prevent the hazards of e-cigarettes from the source Public health, especially the health of young people.

In a modern society under the rule of law, effective supervision of everything must be based on legal authorization, and the market supervision of e-cigarettes is no exception. Due to the lack of legislation, my country's current supervision of e-cigarettes can only be treated as ordinary commodities, which objectively leads to ineffective supervision. If the regulatory and law enforcement agencies are based on the serious harm considerations of e-cigarettes, they are forcibly incorporated into the existing tobacco control regulations for supervision, then they will fall into the embarrassment of "unfounded in the law" and damage the credibility of the supervision and law enforcement. Under such circumstances, it has become an inevitable choice to make the supervision of e-cigarettes "lawful" through legislative supervision.

Facing the proliferation of e-cigarettes and endangering the rising trend, letting legislation go the first step is actually a rigid requirement for the supervision of e-cigarettes in accordance with the law. Relevant functional departments should accelerate the legislative pace of e-cigarette supervision, and formulate strict and complete laws for the supervision of e-cigarettes as soon as possible. Only in this way can we keep pace with the international community in the prevention and control of e-cigarette hazards, and truly gain the initiative to supervise e-cigarettes in accordance with the law.

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