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Tuesday, 03 September 2019 | PNS

The National Health Forum, an NGO working in the field of tobacco control, has requested the Centre to support the Health Ministry’s decision to end manufacture, distribution, import and sale of e-cigarettes and ensure that such products are banned.

The NGO said that the Health Ministry’s decision against e-cigarettes and similar such products is “correct and laudable”.

“...All other Ministries must support this move of Ministry of Health and ensure that such products are banned and are not included as legal products under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act or the Drugs and Cosmetics Act,” Mandakini Sinha (Managing Trustee) of National Health Forum said in a letter dated August 27 to the Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

“There is a concerned attempt by importers of e-cigarettes to ensure that the Ministry of Health’s good work done providing a platform for prohibition of imports of these products is frustrated. To this end, it has been brought to our attention that various representations and legal challenges have been mounted by them.”

Mentioning that claims made by the manufacturers of e-cigarettes that they are “reduced harm alternatives” are not proven by any independent scientific studies, she said what the international conventional tobacco products manufacturers are doing is to use e-cigarettes as a gateway product in luring the youth.

By falsely spreading the idea that e-cigarettes are safe or reduced harm alternatives, she said a situation is being created in the minds of gullible youth of our country to swing them from being non-smokers to smokers.

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