India’s finance minister, Sitharaman, said he would ban the production, manufacture, import and export, transport, sale, storage and advertising of electronic cigarettes in India, according to the website of New Delhi Television on September 18th.
Sitharaman said that considering the impact of e-cigarettes on people’s health, especially on the health of adolescents, a comprehensive ban on e-cigarettes would be enacted. Speaking of the hazards of electronic cigarettes, Sitaraman quoted US data as saying that the use of electronic cigarettes among school students in the United States increased by 77.8%, and surprisingly, the proportion of middle school students smoking electronic cigarettes increased by 48.5%. Currently, nearly 3 million people in the United States regularly smoke e e e-cigarettes, a nine-fold increase compared with the data from 2011 to 2016. Over 100 million smokers in India, making it the world’s second largest smoking country, and the ban on e-cigarettes is also aimed at controlling the growth of potential smokers.
Respiratory diseases caused by electronic cigarettes have increased dramatically, and related deaths are also frequently reported in the media. At present, many countries are considering banning electronic cigarettes. New York State has become the first place in the United States to issue a ban on the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes.
They forgot to ban tobacco cigarettes. Ah, wait… who care))
Thanks for commenting, Igor, I agree with you.
India is a country with strange rules. And this time they haven’t considered the health of people.
The only thing the legislation in India cares is the huge profits from the tobacco group at the moment.
Besides, India is also famous for its high tariffs on other imported electronics products, as high as 100%, it’s ridiculous but it’s true.