A "smoking card" wind is spreading on campus.
Eight-year-old Liang Liang got a new cigarette card. He sniffed the residual smoke on the card excitedly and added it to his collection with satisfaction, ready to compete with his friends. Recently, a game called "take a cigarette card" has quickly become popular in primary schools. The key of this game is to use rectangular cards made from cigarette boxes. Children win trophies by hitting the ground and turning each other’s cards over. Among them, cigarette cards from expensive cigarette brands are particularly precious.
Liang Liang’s father revealed that since this year, Liang Liang’s obsession with collecting cigarette cards has increased, and he has accumulated dozens of them, but this is not much in school. Parents found that children not only increased their collections by exchanging with each other, but also asked adults who smoked for empty cigarette cases and even searched in trash cans to meet the demand of making cigarette cards.
On the e-commerce platform, the sales of "cigarette cards" are extremely hot, with a wide range of prices ranging from a few yuan to a few cents. Some sellers claim that the cigarette cards they sell are made of real cigarette cases, which guarantees "fidelity" and emphasizes disinfection, but they are vague about the specific source. Although some shops advertise as "all by picking up", they have millions of sales records, and the source is a mystery. Many parents showed photos of their children playing cigarette cards in the evaluation, which reflected the universality of this game.
It is worth noting that children are very picky about the authenticity of cigarette cards and are not interested in the production of non-real cigarette cases. This kind of game inadvertently makes children very familiar with various cigarette brands. In this regard, many regulatory authorities and educational institutions began to take action. Haikou, Tianshui and other places conducted special inspections and issued initiatives to prohibit students from participating in the "cigarette card" game. The Changsha education department also requested to investigate and stop the sales of cigarette cards around the campus.
Legal experts pointed out that selling cigarette cards to minors violates the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Advertising Law, which not only harms their physical and mental health, but also may touch the legal boundary of illegally selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks. Experts stressed that the society should make joint efforts to eliminate tobacco factors affecting teenagers, promote healthy entertainment and protect children from the temptation of smoking. There are voices calling for the development of card games suitable for teenagers as a healthy substitute for cigarette cards. A "smoking card" wind is spreading on campus.