India Puts Ban on E-Cigarette to Quell New Forms of Nicotine Addiction

New Delhi: India moved to ban e-cigarettes as these new products were undermining tobacco control efforts, and the new forms of nicotine addiction would have only raised the economic burden on the country.

The pre-emptive move was also necessary because Juul, the largest e-cigarette brand, was planning to launch its products in India by the end of December 2019.

“e-cigarettes are tools to introduce harm amongst the non-smokers. Being gateway products, they pose a huge risk of initiation of nicotine addiction among non-smokers, adolescent, youth and even children. “There is also evidence to suggest serious adverse health effects of vaping even without nicotine. The proliferation of these new products can severely undermine our tobacco control efforts,” Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, told IANS. The government took the ordinance route to ban electronic cigarettes so that their usage didn’t acquire epidemic proportions, especially among the children, adolescent, and youth. (IANS)

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