Expert: Chinese herbal cigarettes are also carcinogenic and addictive

Adding traditional Chinese medicine is a new trick for tobacco companies Recently, some tobacco companies have come up with the idea of traditional Chinese medicine They claim that adding some or several Chinese herbal medicines to tobacco products can reduce the harm of tobacco and even play a health role In response, public health experts warned that the harm of herbal cigarettes is not less than ordinary cigarettes It is carcinogenic and addictive like ordinary cigarette "Adding traditional Chinese medicine is just a new trick for tobacco companies Although traditional Chinese medicine is good, it can't cover up the ugliness of tobacco." Wu Yiqun, deputy director of new exploration health development research center, said at the relevant seminar At present, the main methods of tobacco enterprises include: selecting several kinds of compound Chinese herbal medicines through different methods, then spraying them on the tobacco to make cigarettes; developing new natural plant extracts for cigarettes, such as Shennong extract; the original liquid containing a certain Chinese herbal compound preparation, such as Xianqi Bushen granules, etc The above practice caters to some needs of smokers, so there is a market in reality Wu Yiqun said that after being ignited and inhaled together with tobacco, the composition of Chinese herbal extracts has undergone complex physical and chemical changes, and whether it still has efficacy is very doubtful At the same time, the carcinogenicity and addiction of tobacco itself did not decrease at all According to a recent study published in the United States, tobacco and Chinese herbal blended cigarettes release no less carcinogens and nicotine than ordinary cigarettes The urine of 135 Chinese herbal cigarette smokers and 143 ordinary cigarette smokers were examined It was found that there was no difference in nicotine level or carcinogen level between Chinese herbal cigarette smokers and ordinary cigarette smokers In fact, Chinese herbal cigarette is a new version of the trick of cigarette companies Previously, tobacco companies used to use the guise of "low tar and low hazard", and also sold the concept of "light taste and softness" Earlier, filters and puffed tobacco were noisy However, with the development of scientific research, none of these methods can reduce the harm of tobacco to health The problem is that the lies of bankruptcy in Europe and the United States still prevail in China At present, some countries have legislated to require tobacco companies to accept the examination before the "harm reduction" tobacco products are put on the market, and to fully verify the basis of "harm reduction" provided In 2009, the United States legislated that "light taste", "soft" and "low degree" and similar descriptions should not be used in all tobacco advertisements, trademarks and labels to avoid misleading or unrealistic associations among consumers In the absence of legislative conditions in China, Wu said, we should bear in mind the advice of the world health organization that there is no "safe cigarette" in the world, and that all tobacco products, including low tar cigarettes, are fatal Quitting smoking is the only way to improve the health of tobacco consumers, and the sooner you quit smoking, the better.