The drugs identified by Türkiye are quietly poisoning Chinese children!

Some Chinese compatriots who went to Türkiye recently got into trouble.

They were arrested for carrying betel nuts. According to Turkish law, the arecoline contained in betel nuts is considered a drug because of its hallucinogenic properties. The Chinese Consulate General in Turkey urgently reminds Chinese compatriots not to bring betel nuts into the country!

In this regard, some media interviewed the Hunan Provincial Market Bureau, and the other party responded that "there is no response plan yet."

Following this news thread, I searched the Internet and found that the Hunan government's "no response plan" was understandable because the betel nut industry did not have to deal with it at all and was living a comfortable life.

Although betel nut is not considered a drug in China, it is a well-known fact that betel nut causes cancer. However, the betel nut industry in Hunan (and Hainan) has never given up and has been using various methods to whitewash its claims.

Their methods include but are not limited to: bribing the media and self-media to publish whitewashing articles; spending money to make videos to beautify betel nut from the perspectives of cultural tradition, traditional Chinese medicine, poverty alleviation, etc.; shooting various advertisements to link betel nut with fashion, passion, youth, sports, and vitality; adding ingredients such as wolfberry to create "health upgrades", etc.

These small actions eventually caused a public opinion storm because they were too blatant, so the Hunan Areca Nut Association issued a red-headed document, claiming that it would "implement the administrative guidance of the Hunan Provincial Market Bureau" and stop advertising.

At that time, I felt that the local regulatory authorities and betel nut companies had reached a tacit understanding. As long as the storm was over, the regulatory authorities would turn a blind eye and the betel nut companies would quietly make a fortune, a win-win situation (the people won twice).

Unexpectedly, these companies did not stop at all. After all, with an output value of 40-50 billion, they can do whatever they want. Advertising is bad enough, but we should be especially vigilant that Hunan betel nut has been fully implementing the "youth route" in recent years, with advertising and marketing fully targeting young people.

Among them, betel nut, the "king of oral cancer", is the most active. They are trying their best to sponsor various variety shows and e-sports that young people like to watch. According to incomplete statistics, in the past two years alone, they have sponsored street dance, Slam Dunk, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, League of Legends, etc., and recently they also bought the splash screen advertisement on Weibo.

Do you know what the consequence is?

I warned a few years ago that the peak of oral cancer is still far from coming. This is because market expansion will not be reflected immediately in oral cancer data, and there will be a lag of about 10-20 years. Some current data can already show some clues.

In 2017, oral cancer ranked 8th among male cancers in Hunan.

The 2018 Hunan Provincial Cancer Registry Annual Report shows that "the incidence rate of oral cancer in our province is significantly higher than the national average, and has been increasing year by year for 13 consecutive years, especially in urban areas where the incidence rate is significantly higher than in rural areas. The incidence and mortality rates of oral cancer have increased significantly."

In 2020, oral cancer has become the sixth most common cancer among men in Hunan.

This is definitely not the end.

You are so shameless to still be there trying to cover up and quibble!

Betel nut companies, media and self-media that are still there making money, you are so immoral!

Government departments that are still there claiming to "strengthen the supervision of the quality and safety of edible betel nuts", it's really ridiculous how you deceive yourselves!

There is a Hollywood movie called "Too Big to Fall". The betel nut industry is tied to local governments with its tens of billions of dollars in scale and the so-called "three rural issues" and "poverty alleviation", which has led to the tumor growing bigger and bigger. Some places are not ashamed of it, but proud of it. They have turned the betel nut industry into a political achievement, and the betel nut bosses have become inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. They are really national sinners.

You guys are so awesome, why don’t you just make smoking opium, foot binding, and castration of eunuchs into intangible cultural heritage!

As early as December 2014, a certain comrade said: "Without universal health, there will be no comprehensive well-off society." If we allow betel nut companies to "exploit" young people, what will the country face in the future? Protecting the oral health of young people is urgent! If you don't take action now, you will regret it in the future!

The following data is extracted from academic papers (historical data). Which do you think should be regulated more, extracurricular classes or betel nut chewing? Do our government departments dare to use the same energy to regulate extracurricular classes to deal with betel nut?

1. The rate of betel nut chewing attempts among primary and secondary school students in Xiangtan, Hunan Province is 64.1%, and 8.4% chew it every day. The chewing rate among boys is significantly higher than that among girls, and the chewing rate shows a clear upward trend as the grade increases.

2. Among the 4,019 students in six primary and secondary schools in Loudi, Hunan, 498 students chewed betel nuts, with a betel nut chewing rate of 12.4%, and the betel nut chewing rate among males was 21.1%.

3. The reporting rates of vocational high school students in Xiangxi Prefecture who have tried chewing betel nut, chewed betel nut before the age of 13, chewed betel nut now, and chewed betel nut frequently were 62.82%, 45.79%, 47.20%, and 7.99%, respectively.

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