20世纪二三十年代的禁烟讨论

20世纪二三十年代鸦片泛滥,中国社会危机日益严重。社会各界围绕着禁烟问题开展热烈的讨论。在讨论中提出的各种禁烟主张反映了不同的阶层、集团和势力的利益和要求。禁烟人士通过报刊、媒体揭露外国非法向中国输入鸦片毒品的大量事实,军阀、官吏、奸商等纵容包庇贩运和制售鸦片毒品的罪恶,抨击政府当局腐败,无能政治,唤起国人对鸦片严重危害性的认识,推动了群众拒毒运动空前开展起来,制约了政府当局的禁烟态度。在讨论中一些论者宣传“渐禁主义”理论和主张也产生严重的消极影响。这场禁烟讨论结果说明,在旧中国社会制度之下烟毒泛滥的社会问题根本不可能得到真正的解决。

Discussion of the Ban on Opium in 1920s and 1930s

China was in danger because of the opium-smoking and trade in the 1920s and 1930s. Therefore, a heated discussion of ban on opium went around the whole country, in which various opinions proposed by different levels of people reflected their own interests and requirements. The banners employed the press and the media to expose how the foreigners exported opium illegally to China, and how the warlords, the placemen, and the profiteers connived and enshielded the trading and marketing opium. They attacked the incompetence of the authority and aroused the countrymen to the danger of opium. As a result, the mass rejected the opium and changed the government's attitude toward the ban on opium. In the discussion, the opinion of " to ban gradually" had a negative effect. The results of the discussion show that it is impossible for Old China to solve the social problem of opium-smoking and drug-trading completely because of its social system.