According to foreign news reports, health care and anti-tobacco experts said on Friday that the surge in New Zealand’s young people’s interest in e-cigarettes may undermine the government’s suppression of the tobacco industry and its goal of getting people to quit smoking.

New Zealand’s plan to ban young people from buying cigarettes during their lifetime is one of the world’s severest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, on the grounds that other efforts to eliminate smoking have taken too long.

However, the new regulations do not include e-cigarettes, which say that e-cigarettes are much less harmful than smoking and can help some people quit smoking.

Letitia Harding, CEO of the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation (ARFNZ), said: It is great to have a smoke-free generation, but there are some concerns about the use of e-cigarettes to quit smoking information, and e-cigarettes are more harmful. Small or harmless.

E-cigarettes involve heating a nicotine-containing liquid called e-cigarettes and turning it into vapor that the user inhales. Its long-term health effects are largely unknown.

A national survey of 19,000 middle school students last month showed that more than a quarter of students regularly smoke e-cigarettes, while about 15% reported smoking ordinary combustible cigarettes.

The survey results show that in the past two years, there has been a significant increase in e-cigarettes.

An investigation by ARFNZ and the Association of New Zealand Secondary School Principals, an independent organization representing principals, found that young people smoked high-nicotine e-cigarettes when they had never smoked cigarettes, and quickly became addicted to nicotine.

"We definitely have the problem of e-cigarettes. In 15 years, we will work hard to keep these young people away from e-cigarettes." Harding said.

New Zealand's regulation of e-cigarettes is late, but it is still relatively loose. Compared with the EU's upper limit of 20 mg, a maximum of 60 mg of nicotine per millimeter of liquid is allowed.

Australia said in October that people will no longer be able to buy nicotine e-cigarette products without a prescription.

"Ultimately, tobacco is one of the deadliest substances that people can smoke, and e-cigarettes have no harm associated with it. That's why we take these options commensurate with the risks." Deputy Health Minister Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday. .

Among New Zealanders over 15 years old, only about 11.6% smoke, but the decline in smoking rate is closely related to the increase in e-cigarette rates, and about 600 approved e-cigarette retailers can meet the demand.

The World Health Organization said in July that fashion marketing in the tobacco industry is attracting young people to use e-cigarettes, which may lead to tobacco addiction.

Large tobacco companies quickly switched to offering electronic cigarettes in different flavors and created designs for the new generation of users.

Marlboro cigarette maker Philip Morris now sells igos, a device that heats but does not burn ground tobacco packaging to make nicotine aerosols similar to those produced by e-cigarettes.

British American Tobacco sells e-cigarettes under the Vuse brand, while the Empire brand sells bu e-cigarettes.

Collin Tukuitonga, an associate professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, said that e-cigarettes are effective for adults who want to quit smoking, but they are aimed at young people.

"People will inevitably smoke e-cigarettes because exposure to tobacco becomes very difficult. Therefore, a planned and thoughtful social media campaign is needed to address the dangers of e-cigarettes." He said.

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