Expert explains cigarette Heavy Metal report says smoke control policy too weak

13 Kinds of cigarette brands containing heavy metals/journalist He Ying October 7, the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC), published by the Scientific Research report, 13 Chinese-made cigarette brands detected heavy metals, the content of Canadian cigarettes compared to the highest than three times times higher. The tobacco Monopoly Department in response to media interviews said that the standard of heavy metals at home and abroad are not standard. Yesterday, the reporter contacted the Chinese experts who participated in the study, pointing out that the report is only one content of the whole research project, and aims to strengthen the tobacco control policy.　　Reporter visits Guangzhou market, smokers to this reaction insipid, smoke shop said no state request seized notice.　　Heavy metals or soil from tobacco plant in the report, the reporter saw 13 of domestic brands containing heavy metals are: white sand, big front door, Dubao, double Happiness, golden leaf, happiness (auspicious), Red River, Golden Dragon, Red Plum, Hongqi Canal, Hongtashan, Stone Forest, one pen. Canada's testing of cigarettes is very strict, and this time it is Canada's same products. The report noted that in the second sampling of 13 cigarette brands purchased in China from 2005 to 2006, the average content of chromium in the tested Chinese cigarette brands was 0.55μg/g (0.0~1.0), and the arsenic content averaged 0.78μg/g (0.3~3.3), The cadmium content averaged 3.24μg/g (2.0~5.4), and the lead content averaged 2.54μg/g (1.2~6.5).　　In addition to chromium, the other three kinds of heavy metals are significantly higher than Canadian cigarettes, reaching 2 to 3 times times.　　"We suspect that heavy metals may come from the soil where tobacco is grown, but it is not known whether it is contaminated or natural," said a Chinese expert involved in the study yesterday, saying that cigarettes themselves contain 60 kinds of carcinogens, and heavy metals are just one of them. Canada needs testing so compared with its products, "Yangzi Evening News" quoted the National Tobacco Monopoly Bureau Science and Technology Division deputy Director Wang Yusheng, said there is no standard of heavy metals at home and abroad, "although China has not yet issued a heavy metal market access standards for the whole of cigarettes, but this standard is not only China, not internationally, Canadian researchers, with their domestic smoke as a reference, have also included cigarettes that have ceased production and, from a standpoint and perspective, cannot be said to be completely objective and impartial. "Wang Yusheng that this report can only be regarded as a study of the nature of a certain reference."　　As in some other studies, the content of nitrosamines in Canadian cigarettes is generally 8~10 times of Chinese cigarettes, up to 30 times times the highest, and the specific nitrosamines are carcinogenic.　　The Chinese experts on the previous research project also pointed out that there is no international standard for heavy metals, but Canada has the requirement of heavy metal detection, and has relevant technical conditions, so selected the Canadian data comparison.　13 Brand Happiness (auspicious) and one pen has not been produced　Yesterday, the reporter visited Guangzhou market found that the major supermarkets and cigarette stores and smoke stalls are still in the sale of white sands, double happiness, Red River, Hongtashan, Lotus Wang and other brands of cigarettes, involving the 13 brands, happiness (auspicious) and a pen has long not produced. For heavy metals, sales staff have said that they do not know, and some said they heard, but temporarily did not find any impact on sales, and the price of cigarettes has not changed.　　Both the salesmen and the cigarette stall owners said they had not received any notification of the State's request for seizures.　　"I read the news, already know that smoking is harmful to health, but it is difficult to quit AH", just bought a bag of Lotus King Zhang said. Research objective: To call on the state to strengthen the control of tobacco before the Chinese experts pointed out that the ITC in October published a special issue on China's tobacco control Policy, which contains 12 articles, the study report is only 1 of the content, the remaining 11 articles on smoking behavior research. The expert noted that the aim of the study was to call on the State to strengthen its tobacco control policy. "A study we had a while ago showed that only 16% of smokers in China want to quit, even in the big cities," says one of the 20%. The Canadian figure is 80%, a big difference. "It is one reason why the tobacco control policy is too weak and cigarettes are too cheap," he said.