How many years are you sentenced to underage smoking?

Minors will not be sentenced for smoking, but it is illegal to sell cigarettes (including e-cigarettes) to minors.

Specific measures taken by the state in this regard include:

1. Publicity and education are in place. Strengthen the legal publicity of outlets selling cigarettes (including e-cigarettes), and urge the comprehensive setting of warning signs.

2. Prevention and protection are in place. Classify and improve the distance standards around primary and secondary schools and kindergartens (hereinafter referred to as the campus periphery), implement the investigation and registration of cigarette outlets, and speed up the clean-up of illegal outlets.

3. Investigate and deal with supervision in place. Severely investigate and deal with illegal acts of selling cigarettes to minors, continue to strengthen network monitoring, and intensify the crackdown on illegal acts.

Legal basis:

According to the main task of "Special Action Plan for Protecting Minors from Tobacco", we can know that:

(1) Seriously implement the requirement that no sales outlets should be set around the campus.

1. Clearly standardize the distance standards and measurement standards around the campus. Local tobacco monopoly administrative departments should set the distance standard scientifically and reasonably according to the actual situation, taking into account the local normal consumption demand and protecting minors from tobacco harm. The measurement standard should be reasonable, in line with the cognition of ordinary people, and the measurement method should be simple and easy to verify.

2. Clean up cigarette butts around the campus. Before June 25th, 20021year, the local tobacco monopoly administrative departments should comprehensively investigate the retail license holders around the campus, establish work ledgers, and regularly report the progress of the clean-up. We should actively persuade the licensed households around the campus to take the initiative to quit; For the operation of changing address, the licensing conditions may be appropriately relaxed according to law; The license will not be renewed after the expiration of the original operation. Market supervision departments should intensify their efforts to investigate and deal with unlicensed business practices, investigate and deal with unlicensed business households around the campus according to law, and create a standardized and orderly market environment.

(two) strictly investigate and deal with illegal acts of selling cigarettes to minors.

1. Implement the regulations on setting warning signs and verifying identity documents. Local tobacco monopoly administrative departments should speed up the organization to post warning slogans or special publicity signs prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in prominent positions in tobacco monopoly points. Urge operators to take the initiative to refuse minors' requests for cigarettes. For those who are difficult to determine whether they are minors, they should strictly implement the identity documents and explore the application of new technical means to improve the effectiveness of the inspection.

2. Strengthen the daily supervision of the tobacco market. Local tobacco monopoly administrative departments should improve the operation mechanism of 123 13 tobacco market supervision service hotline, smooth the channels for reporting and complaining, and respond to the demands of the masses in a timely manner. Comprehensive use of "double random, one open" supervision and key supervision and other means, the campus periphery will be included in the key supervision area, to ensure the effective implementation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Law on the Protection of Minors.

3. Investigate and deal with illegal acts of selling cigarettes to minors according to law. Local tobacco monopoly administrative departments should co-ordinate and guide the application of the Law on the Protection of Minors in People's Republic of China (PRC), effectively standardize the administrative penalty discretion benchmark in this area, and strengthen the fixation of evidence. Adhere to the case interpretation, case warning, form a shock, guide the law-abiding operation of cigarette shops, and educate law enforcement personnel to strictly regulate civilized law enforcement.

(3) Continue to strengthen the supervision of e-cigarette market.

1. Comprehensively and strictly supervise the business behavior of e-cigarettes. All localities should implement the requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the legalization of e-cigarette supervision, gradually establish and improve the e-cigarette supervision system, improve the supervision efficiency, standardize the production and business activities of e-cigarettes, and prevent the chaos in the e-cigarette market from "resurgence".

2. Continue to strengthen the control of Internet channels. Implement the Notice on Prohibiting the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes to Minors jointly issued by the State Administration of Markets and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (No.26 of the State Administration of Markets 20 18) and the Notice on Further Protecting Minors from the Harm of Electronic Cigarettes jointly issued by the State Administration of Markets (No.20 1 9 of the State Administration of Markets).

3. Guide the legal and standardized operation of e-cigarette physical stores. Local tobacco monopoly administrative departments should comprehensively investigate e-cigarette sales outlets and register them for the record. Clean up and rectify illegal sales outlets and automatic sales equipment around the campus, investigate and deal with illegal sales of e-cigarettes to minors according to law, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors.

In short, minors will not be sentenced for smoking, but smoking is harmful to health, and cigarettes (including e-cigarettes) may not be sold to minors.