On September 23, 2019 (October 0th of the 0th lunar year), the world blocked e-cigarettes. The People's Daily reported on September 23, 2019 that it only took a few years for e-cigarettes to go from being popular among everyone to being wanted around the world. Recently, it can be called the "Black September" of e-cigarettes. From the United States to India to China, bans have been one after another, and e-cigarettes have hit obstacles everywhere. Lies such as water vapor is harmless and healthier than traditional cigarettes have become fragile in the face of reality. More importantly, e-cigarettes, which are originally a substitute for smoking cessation, have gradually become a scourge that induces young people to smoke. Faced with the doubling number of young smokers, it may be too late if supervision does not take action. Under the global ban on wanted e-cigarettes, American supermarket chain giant Wal-Mart knows how to assess the situation. On the 20th local time, Wal-Mart announced that it would stop selling e-cigarettes in U.S. stores. This decision applies to all Wal-Mart supermarkets and Wal-Mart Sam's Club stores. According to Wal-Mart's statement, federal, state and local regulatory restrictions on e-cigarettes are becoming increasingly complex and uncertain, and Wal-Mart will stop selling e-cigarettes after selling its stock. Wal-Mart must make a choice. After all, for today's e-cigarettes, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes. In mid-month, U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said that the Trump administration was preparing to ban flavored e-cigarette products, and federal health officials also called for restrictions to combat an outbreak of a mysterious lung disease that had killed at least six people and sickened hundreds. Coincidentally, just two days before Wal-Mart's action, India had just issued a tough order on e-cigarettes. According to Indian Finance Minister Sitaraman, everything involving e-cigarette business is prohibited, from production, manufacturing, import and export transportation, sales to distribution, storage and advertising. The ban has been approved by the Indian Cabinet and will soon be officially promulgated in the form of an executive order. It is understood that those who violate the ban face up to three years in prison and a fine of approximately $7000. Another thing worth noting is that in mid-September, American e-cigarette giant Juul just launched Tmall and Jingdong. However, just a week later, Juul's flagship stores on both e-commerce platforms were closed. Although there are third-party platforms that sell Juul's related products, Juul's flagship store has disappeared. In response, Juul responded in a statement that although Juul e-cigarettes have been removed from the shelves of China e-commerce platforms, we look forward to continuing dialogue with relevant parties so that our products can be launched again. Regarding the layout of the China market and its response to regulation in the U.S. market, a reporter from the Beijing Business Daily contacted Juul, but no reply had been received as of press time. In fact, the ranks of countries that are besieging e-cigarettes have become larger and larger. It is understood that more than a dozen countries or regions around the world, including Japan, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Thailand, and Brazil, have fully or partially banned e-cigarettes. Behind the ban on deadly e-cigarettes, the "crimes" of e-cigarettes are countless. "Your lungs are almost 70 years old." When the doctor told the bad news to the 18-year-old American boy Adam Hegenred, Adam couldn't imagine that smoking e-cigarettes "would cause such great damage to my lungs." In view of this, more than a week ago, Adam filed a lawsuit against Juul, accusing the latter of falsely promoting the safety of his products and instilling the public that e-cigarettes can enhance social status. The details are shocking. "No one told me about e-cigarettes." According to Adam, he initially tried smoking e-cigarettes just to get in touch. His favorite flavor was mango. He often bought them at nearby gas stations, and sales staff would not ask him to provide age proof. Mint, mango, bubble gum, cotton candy... It is hard to imagine that cigarettes can have so many tempting flavors. It is this that has unexpectedly attracted more and more young people. Data shows that 20.8% of high school students and 4.9% of junior high school students in the United States used e-cigarettes last year, a year-on-year increase of 78% and 48%. Among teenagers who smoke e-cigarettes, 82% try e-cigarettes because they like novel flavors. In the past few years, e-cigarettes have been packaged in a healthier and even more fashionable way. E-cigarettes are a method of smoking that converts nicotine, etc. into vapor through atomization and other means and allows people to smoke them. Compared with the thousands of chemicals in cigarette smoke, for a long time, the labels attached to e-cigarettes have been safer, even "smoking cessation tools", but more and more facts have proved that these are nonsense. The World Health Organization has stated that the second-hand aerosol produced by e-cigarette heating solutions, also known as e-cigarette second-hand smoke, includes certain heavy metals and nicotine, and is not just water vapor as they advertise. As early as 2015, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth College in the United States estimated a rather ironic figure that 2070 adults in the United States quit traditional cigarettes through e-cigarettes, but 168,000 young people started smoking cigarettes because of using e-cigarettes. Zhang Jianshu, president of the Beijing City Tobacco Control Association, told reporters from the Beijing Business Daily that there is evidence to prove that for e-cigarettes, the harm of traditional cigarettes is not only there, but also atomizers, fragrances, etc. are added to traditional cigarettes. Although propylene glycol is a food additive, its chemical composition changes after heating. Overall, the harm of e-cigarettes may be greater. E-cigarettes marketed without supervision and without standardized production standards pose huge hidden dangers to human health, and supervision must be carried out as soon as possible. In sharp contrast to e-cigarette deaths, a document in late August showed that Juul, which controls approximately three-quarters of the U.S. e-cigarette retail market, had just received $800 million in financing. At the end of 2018, Juul was acquired by Altria, the parent company of Marlboro and one of the world's largest tobacco groups, which gained a 35% stake. Reuters reported that Juul's revenue exceeded US$1 billion in 2018, and the company's average year-end bonus reached a staggering US$1.3 million last year. It is undeniable that e-cigarettes have indeed been the outlet in recent years. It is understood that since the introduction of e-cigarettes in 2004, the market size has continued to expand, and sales of e-cigarettes in 2018 reached US$14.5 billion. Research firm Euromonitor International even predicts that by 2021, the global value of e-cigarettes will reach US$34 billion. The United States is the home base of e-cigarettes. Data shows that in 2018, sales of e-cigarettes in the United States reached US$5.6 billion, directly winning the title of the world's largest consumer market for e-cigarettes. Ranked second, the United Kingdom has e-cigarette sales of US$2.43 billion. Italy, Germany, France, etc. are also major e-cigarette consumers. The China market is no exception. Incomplete statistics show that in the short period of 1 year and 3 months from April 2018 to July 2019, at least 20 e-cigarette companies have obtained more than 30 financings. In the first half of 2019 alone, the total amount of financing received by the e-cigarette industry exceeded 1 billion yuan. Behind the wind outlet is the temptation of profit. Goldman Sachs mentioned in its 2013 report that by 2020, e-cigarettes may account for 10% of sales and 15% of profits in the overall tobacco industry. "The growth of e-cigarettes may come at the expense of cigarettes, which are expected to account for 63% of industry profits by 2020 from the current 82%." However, in the face of health risks, capital has to give way to supervision. Zhang Jianshu gave an example. In the 1960s, Germany invented the antiemetic drug "Thalidomide", which has good effects on pregnant women. At that time, the US FDA was particularly old-fashioned. One of the female doctors firmly opposed the listing of the drug because there was not enough evidence to prove that the drug was safe enough, but it has been widely marketed in Europe. The final result was that about 10,000 deformed "dolphin babies" appeared the following year, compared with 17 cases in the United States. Zhang Jianshu said that e-cigarettes are spreading very seriously around the world, especially in the US market. But there are also different situations in Western countries. Some states in the United States have legislated to ban the sale of e-cigarettes, but some states have not yet. Although the UK lists it as a smoking cessation product, it has included it in the scope of drug management, which is an area with strict supervision. Therefore, no matter what plan is, strict supervision will ultimately be carried out. In China, from a national perspective, at least supervision must be strengthened. Beijing should also ban e-cigarettes where smoking is prohibited. After all, both have the harm of second-hand smoke. The claim that second-hand smoke is entirely water vapor has long been proven to be a lie.