Use the misleading term The Chinese cigarette cast packs and encroaches on consumer's right of being in know

Use the misleading term The Chinese cigarette cast packs and encroaches on consumer's right of being in know
09:01 on March 16 of 2009 A few days ago, reporters received an E-mail, a person takes place to say in the mail: "Please save the adult's ignorance and the child's misfortune with ' ugly ' cigarette cast. " He to recently on the net been cause sensational by each call " The family dam strikes old opium pipe of two years old in fact in week " Video. On this section of videos, a boy two years old is in making trouble of a group of adults, have smoked a cigarette in open fight between factions of skilled place. His performance gains the excited cheer of the adults, they pass boys a candy as the reward. "Print the intersection of human skeleton and hair, bad lobe of the lung terrific warning picture at cigarette pack, which adult can bring it to tease children? When seeing the products printed with these pictures, have how many children can think, try such a thing kind proud? " Sent to a person and said in the mail: "' old opium pipe of two years old ' is shaken by me, how terribly the danger that he lets me feel tobacco brings to teenagers again is. It is already very urgent to take essential accusing of the cigarette measure. " He think cigarette pack health at it warns to be accusing of cigarette interfere the means from most economic and effective. The first of Yunnan is folk to accuse of the cigarette organization " Exceed and lose the centre " Project of accusing of on cigaretting on health officer Li YanNi point out, "what people pay close attention to are mostly topics related to respects such as the electrical home appliances, house, food,etc. on Consumers' Day of every year ' 3 15 ', but few people pay close attention to the fact the cigarette and produce, sold and fully respected consumers' consumption rights and interests in the course, there are very few lawsuit, appeal damaged about the cigarette consumption rights and interests, it indicates a lot of people have not realized at present cigarettes are actually encroaching on consumers' rights and interests too. " The cigarette is packed and has not transmitted the girl of risk Li Yan of smoking to think, the cigarette is packed and has not transmitted and smoked health risks and severity caused to the public effectively effectively, it is a kind of infringement of consumers. She says: "The cigarette, this kind of goods, has no operation instructions, has no certificate of quality of products, all information about products is concentrated on small cigarette cast, so the cigarette cast has packed and actually become the important route that consumers understand the cigarette, also the cigarette producer's main way to perform duty of telling, it is the main embodiment of consumer's right of being in know too. " " exceed and lose the centre " Age from the beginning of this year, though the health poster on the cigarette outer cover of some domestic famous brands has already been moved from packing the side to front from the beginning of this year,, " it is harmful to health to smoke, giving up smoking can reduce to healthy danger " 1/ 3 area which English of words and corresponding to last front lower side, but most smokers have no discovery to pack the change that take place. The person investigated is thought: " many a words than before of poster content, meanings are nothing different " ; " are all accustomed to these characters, the cigarette will also be bought all the same, smoke all the same " . But have picture warn cigarette cast of language, wave as them some in front of the person investigated, looking at those lax, sallow teeth, the smoker inserting all over tube on one's body, keeping breathing difficultly, gather harmful substance but unblocked blood vessel, ugly human skeleton, at the picture foetus,etc. that suffocate and die, every investigator piece reveal surprised color, some people can't help, nip, put out cigarette in the hand when being surprised. Center for Disease Prevention and Control of China accuses of cigarette office's and international tobacco controlling the policy to assess the project and cooperate, the investigation done in Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, 4 cities and 1169 adult smoker, adult non-smoker and teenagers of Yinchuan in January of this year reveals, the cigarette cast health of China warns that lacks and warns the result. The health that more than 80% of the interviewees think China new warns labels teenagers do not smoke to lack validity most to trying to persuade warning, about 73% of the adult smokers can not understand English on the back of cigarette cast and warn " Smokingisharmfultoyourhealth " (smoke and is harmful to health) ,90% of the adult smokers can not understand another sentence of English and warn " Quitsmokingearlyisgoodforyourhealth ealth " (give up smoking as soon as possible good for health) . " low tar " , " light flavor " Misleading term" at first glance, at the cigarette cast circulating on the market at present is packed, can see commodity name, trade mark, producer's name, contents such as the composition, health poster,etc. included, it seems, should have, have all. But actually the question inside is numerous, infringe consumers' right of being in know seriously. " Li YanNi says. She point out of our country cigarette mark the intersection of tar and quantity, the intersection of exhaust gas and the intersection of smoke and the intersection of alkali and quantity and the intersection of exhaust gas and the intersection of carbon monoxide and the intersection of quantity and 3 kinds of compositions only to composition included at present. But in fact, the cigarette composition is complicated, besides nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, there are chemical materials of 4000 multi-type such as inferior nitre amine, polonium,etc., including 400 multi-type noxious substances. In these 400 multi-type harmful substances, it is carcinogen to exceed 50 kinds, such as polonium being a very harmful material, publish result of study at scientific periodical, general smoker and whether smoker can go, watch, tobacco company impossible in have fatal material that endanger mark, come out these at cigarette pack. This has undoubtedly deprived consumer's right of being in know to the products composition of the cigarette. In addition, what most cigarette enterprises adopted is that standard machine measurement method measure tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide content in the cigarette smog. But this method is defective. Not merely because the tobacco trade can design and destroy the cigarette which test validity, and the machine tests that does not consider the smoker adjusts and smokes the behavioral way, for example suck more mouths or suck more deeply, or stop up the air-vent, by keeping the nicotine level. That is to say each quantity which smokers sucks is different. Some consumers see the tar of some cigarettes, content of nicotine, carbon monoxide are low, will think by mistake low tar, low nicotine or cigarette of the low carbon monoxide were low dangerous degree of cigarettes or even security cigarette. A lot of smokers think and suck " Light flavor " , " soft" , " low tar " Or " extremely light flavor " The cigarette, can reduce to healthy danger. In fact, the scientific evidence shows, this kind of cigarette is not safer than the ordinary cigarette, and any cigarette is not proved to be safe. November of 2008 is at the third contracting party meeting that " the tobacco controls the frame convention " of World Health Organization that South Africa Durban International Conference Centre holds, a plurality of criteria of free of tobacco industry, forbidding the tobacco advertisement, promoting and supporting etc. through packing labels, public health policy for the tobacco that makes the convention. Meeting demand, print picture type warn, demand, forbid, use words or warnings of person who mislead healthily by a wide margin at cigarette cast Inform, include already proving nonsensical " low tar " , " light flavor " With " soft " Wait for words. Use " uglily " Cigarette cast rescue child This year " Two Conferences " Go, National People's Congress? Portugal is rich that � rams the loose soil with a stone-roller after sowing Flatter and rinse Jiao to admire badly The scull brother composes the ancient drinking vessel �Ӧ� and has jurisdiction over �� and blocks the school �Ҫ� of ��'s blanket and consults the blanket orangutan and dislikes the peaceful plum of ��'s margin health toweringly Ether has peaceful Fu side of a ship to sprout Shun slowly to count ���� to present the rose of threshold toughly urinate otters! Come the intersection of �� and unreasonable ����, horizontal inscribed board of Jiu, cut out, wave, smell of fish beach the intersection of heir and Song receive ��, horizontal inscribed board of ����! ? The fact proves, the cigarette cast has been the thing that the tobacco company especially paid attention to all the time. The administrative executive of transnational tobacco company Philip Morris Company says: "We and smoker final to it links up tools to be cigarette cast. In case of no other marketing advertisements, packaging becomes the only conveyer of our brand marrow. In other words: When there is nothing other, it is our marketing to pack. " And Brown Willianmson tobacco company uses very attractive language in its background situation introduction of marketing: "If you smoke, then the cigarette cigarette cast is that you often use, can represent one of the few articles of your personal image. The cigarette cast is that you draw from the pocket out 20 times and the only article shown to all people every day. " However, the investigations of some countries show, when those clear health warns picture and language to be printed on the cigarette cast, cigarette pack health at it warns to be accusing of cigarette interfere the means from most economic and effective. Most smoker and whether smoker can see cigarette pack the health warning at. Calculate with a pack of 20 cigarettes, breathe in the smoker of a pack of smoke each day, see every year that it is probably here 7000 or more times to pack the warning had. To adult and smokers of teenagers, larger poster can make them improve the will of giving up smoking on the cigarette cast, reduce the volume of consumption of tobacco. In Brazil, the new picture warns after adopting, 73% of the smokers agree, 54% of the people think that has changed their view on health consequence of smoking, 67% of the people say the new warning make them want to give up smoking. These results are especially obvious in the crowd with low education degree and is badly paid. "In fact we are all the consumers of the cigarette, because not that the smoker should often stand the danger of passive smoking, so everybody should pay close attention to cigarette and consumer's rights and interests. " YanNi Li say " cigarette only kind can with to support whom people suck harmful to the goods legal deal in the world at present, as in the goods of market circulation, we have no right to require consumers not to consume, we respect consumers' right to choose of freedom, but the prerequisite of this kind of choice is in the know, then choose and use. Endanger the adult who knew nothing to tobacco in order to wake those up, in order to protect those children who knew nothing about any danger, we appeal for: Let's rescue children with the ugly cigarette cast! " convention " has already come into force in our country, please fulfill to the commitment that the people make, please protect people and the children's health, we do not hope to present second two -year-old ' old opium pipe ' again. "

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