Cigarettes at ¢35 a pack, in 2019….
Cigarettes at ¢35 a pack, in 2019….
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2019 年，香烟价格为每包 35 欧元……。
DOI：
10.1136/jech-2019-212333
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Farquhar,WilliamB
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作者：
Patterson,Freda;Farquhar,WilliamB
糖果香烟是烟草产品如何向儿童销售的一个例子(图1)。1 2虽然包括加拿大、新西兰和巴西在内的世界上几个国家禁止销售“儿童香烟”，但在美国，世界甜点公司继续生产这些包装像真品一样的人造香烟。3几十年来，吸烟率一直在下降，但电子烟等替代尼古丁输送设备的出现正在扭转这一趋势，特别是在年轻人中。例如，2017至2018年间，高中生和中学生的电子烟使用量分别增长了78%和48%。最近年轻人吸烟行为的上升使糖果香烟再次成为聚光灯下的焦点。使用糖果香烟的儿童尝试烟草产品的可能性是父母的两倍，无论他们的父母是否吸烟。五分之一的成年吸烟者在孩提时代就经常吸食糖果烟，五分之一和十分之九的吸烟者在青少年时期就开始吸烟。在美国，吸烟和使用烟草产品仍然是可预防的死亡的主要原因，2香烟和糖果是烟草大亨所称的“替代吸烟者”的诱饵。加入其他发达国家禁止糖果香烟的时代早就该到来了。
Candy cigarettes are one example of how tobacco products are still marketed to children (figure 1). 1 2 While several countries across the world including Canada, New Zealand and Brazil ban the sale of ‘kiddie cigarettes’, in the USA, World Confections continues to manufacture these faux-cigarettes that are packaged like the real thing. 3 For decades, smoking rates have been declining, but the emergence of alternative nicotine delivery devices such as e-cigarettes is reversing this trend, particularly among youth. For example, e-cigarette use increased by 78% in high school students and 48% in middle school students between 2017 and 2018. 4 This recent upswing in smoking behaviours among youth brings candy cigarettes back under the spotlight. Children who use candy cigarettes are twice as likely to try tobacco products, regardless of whether their parents smoke or not. 1 One in five adult smokers regularly consumed candy cigarettes as children, 5 and 9 out of 10 started smoking as teenagers. 6 Smoking and use of tobacco products is still the leading cause of preventable death in the USA, 2 and candy cigarettes are bait to what big-tobacco call ‘replacement smokers’. The time to join the rest of the developed world in banning candy cigarettes is long overdue.