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126 Domestic and international research reveals that the successful rate of quitting smoking after one year relying on merely one’s own will is approximately 3-5%; for those with the use of smoking cessation services for quitting smoke, the success rate of quitting smoke after one year is approximately 25%. The result shows that the successful rate associated with the professional assistance and the use of smoking cessation medication for quitting smoke is 5 times higher than the success rate of quitting smoke relying on one’s own will. Accordingly, the Administration will continue to promote the second generation smoking cessation services, smokers’ helpline, diverse smoking cessation services of smoking cessation classes held by county and city health bureaus etc., in order to create smoke-free environments, to promote amendment of law to increase smoking cessation, to increase area of pictorial warning on tobacco packages and to prohibit the display of tobacco products in light of protecting the health of all people. E-cigarettes Monitoring and Management Electronic cigarettes are novel products, which uses an electric power driven atomizer and a heated smoke liquid(container) containing vaporizing liquid, the smoke is mixed with nicotine, propylene glycol and other fragrances etc. as a new device provided for smoking by users. Since nicotine is of the properties of "addictive substance" and "ingredient of smoking cessation adjuvant drug" and since "electronic cigarettes" most contain the ingredient nicotine, electronic cigarettes have been listed under the drug management since March 2009 in Taiwan. Electronic cigarette is a new issue of health hazards in the world, and particularly, during the era of convenient internet shopping, it is extremely hard for countries to control such product. The WHO urges all nations to adopt strict controls on electronic cigarettes in order to protect the youth from the hazards of electronic cigarettes and tobacco. Currently, electronic cigarettes are targeted at teenagers, and teenagers are more likely to be influenced by adults. Electronic cigarettes can also become a new entry to drugs for teenagers; therefore, prevention of teenagers in accessing electronic cigarettes and leading to illegal drugs shall be made in order to prevent further crimes of teenagers. The number of e-cigarette users worldwide is rapidly increasing and e-cigarette use is difficult to control in this age of convenient online shopping. To protect the people and to control the electronic cigarettes, the government has launched cross-department preventions on June 22, 2015, March 3, 2016, April 26, 2017 and April 10, 2018 to invite units of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Finance, Coast Guard Administration of Executive Yuan, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Transpiration and Communications, Ministry of Education and the Ministry to convene the "Cross-Department Meeting for Electronic Cigarette Control" to enhance the work allocations of all departments, including the works of border seizure and inspection, source tracking, channel inspection, monitoring and management, education broadcasting and cessation guidance etc., in order to completely prevent the Hazards of electronic cigarettes. ◎ Work Together to Fight Against E-Cigarettes!