I’m going to think about an inconsistency
about the system of tobacco in Japan. In Japan, at first, electronic-cigarette
are banned by law because it contains nicotine. On the contrast, other
non-smoking treatment goods are controlled by a pharmacist, and we cannot use
without their allowance, so it’s not banned completely so far. Apart from this,
the most surprising point is the mass production of normal tobacco are not
banned and it’s protected by tobacco industrial law in spite of they contain so
many amount of nicotine more than e-cigarette. This is the inconsistency of the
tobacco system as I wrote on the top.
So
why such contradiction has happened? If this situation went on, more and more
smoking people would suffer from various diseases in the future.
I
guess this situation is involved by a tax increasing. In Japan, when we buy the
tobacco, we have to pay a lot of tax, especially since April in this year.
Then, it brings non-smoking boom among many people because we don’t want to pay
high tax, of course. At the same time, a demand of non-smoking treatment medicine
and other instrument is getting larger. In general, these devices are taxed as
well as tobacco, and the government can exploit it from this.
To
sum up, tobacco makes a contribution to tax revenues from other thing from
tobacco itself. I guess this is why Japanese government doesn’t prohibit the
introduction of e-cigarette.
