Action needed to stop kids being lured into smoking

ACCORDING TO a recently released report, most primary and secondary schools have a tobacco sales shop within 100 meters of their gates. Gmw.cn comments on Monday:

According to a survey freshly released by a research center on tobacco control, about 90 percent of primary and secondary schools have tobacco sales shops within 100 meters of them, of which about one-fourth feature tobacco advertisements.

Besides, the survey on 1,281 tobacco shops in seven cities also finds that about half of them do not have any signs forbidding tobacco sales to minors. Some of them even allow their customers to buy individual cigars, not by the box, which makes it easier for youngsters to buy cigars.