Indulge in cigarette cards and go astray： six children stole 60 thousand yuan of high-grade cigarettes

[China Green Hair News] Cigarette cards are popular on campus at present, which makes primary school students addicted to them. Playing with cigarette cards has become a trend involving countless primary school students.

The "cigarette card" is made of discarded cigarette cases. Tear off the cigarette case cover, fold it into a rectangular card, put it on the ground, hit the ground with the empty palm, and win if it is hit by the palm wind. Whoever has a higher cigarette card level will have the show-off capital of the game. The more expensive the cigarette case, the more popular the "cigarette card".

With the popularity of cigarette card games, in order to get more materials for making cigarette cards, many students choose to buy them in nearby shops and online, or even rummage in the trash can or ask strangers for them. Under this wind, the heart of comparison is also spreading, and its disadvantages are gradually emerging.

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Therefore, parents, schools, media and children’s education experts are all worried about the popularity of cigarette card games, hoping to strengthen the guidance and supervision of the game under the appeal of many parties.

When the heart of comparison can’t be satisfied through normal channels, even more terrible things happen. The cigarette card game triggered a theft of minors.

On July 4, in a community in southern Sichuan, six minors sneaked into the home of a local merchant in order to obtain a cigarette card, stole more than 60,000 yuan of high-grade cigarettes, and discarded all the cigarettes after taking off the cigarette card.

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In addition, some media reported that "cigarette cards" have been upgraded to "gambling"-everyone bets first, and the losing students should give the corresponding number of "cigarette cards" to the winning party, or they can directly give cash or other items.

Moreover, tobacco card games can make children come into frequent contact with tobacco products. For teenagers with immature cognition, premature contact with tobacco products may induce them to be curious about tobacco and join the ranks of smoking, which will do great harm to their physical and mental health.

As a result, behind a small "cigarette card", the harm that may be caused by juvenile delinquency, gambling and premature exposure to tobacco products is coming into reality, which is enough to arouse great concern and attention from the society.

In recent months, many actions have been taken at the national and local levels in response to the harm caused by tobacco cards. In May 2024, the Office of the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau issued the "Notice on Carrying out Special Treatment to Protect Minors from Electronic Cigarettes", which requires that local tobacco monopoly bureaus should cooperate with market supervision departments to dissuade convenience stores, supermarkets, cultural and sports goods stores around the campus from selling cigarette cases, cigarette cards and other items to minors. Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shenzhen and other places should tighten the responsibility of territorial supervision, adopt administrative interviews, send supervision letters, etc., and require local Internet companies to independently clean up product information such as electronic cigarettes and cigarette cards, and shut down illegal sales shops.

Despite various measures, the craze for cigarette card games has not completely subsided, and primary school students can still buy cigarette cards through the Internet or other online trading channels. Under the rule that cigarettes are more expensive and cigarettes have more "gold content", more children are eager to get high-end cigarette cards, and they will not hesitate to steal them to achieve their goals, which is very embarrassing.

In my opinion, the smoke card game is similar to the picture we played when we were young, and there is nothing wrong with the game itself. Only with the continuous upgrading and evolution of the rules of the game, the value of cigarette cards has been given a hierarchy corresponding to the market price of cigarettes, which has increased the psychology of blind comparison among children, thus deriving a series of worrying phenomena. To prevent children from indulging in cigarette cards, it is necessary to educate both families and schools, and to combine unblocking and blocking.

First of all, all localities should focus on special rectification actions. It is forbidden to sell cigarette cases, cigarette cards and other items to minors in convenience stores, supermarkets, cultural and sports goods stores around the campus. It is forbidden to sell "cigarette cards" through online channels. Once found, severe punishment should be given. At the same time, complaint channels should be unblocked, and social supervision should be better utilized to carry out the management of cigarette cards.

Secondly, for schools and parents, we should gradually divert children’s attention to tobacco cards through alternative games with more positive functions or other activities beneficial to physical and mental health, for example, by telling the harm of tobacco card games, strengthening positive guidance and education, weakening children’s enthusiasm for tobacco cards in a step-by-step way, and finally getting rid of their obsession with tobacco cards.

The "cigarette stealing incident" has issued a warning, and it is urgent to crack down on the "cigarette card".

Reference link:

1. Red Star Survey | Crazy cigarette card game: 6 Children steal 60,000 yuan of high-end cigarettes to get a cigarette card, and experts say that blocking is better than sparse.

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