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Update news electronic cigarettes
The National Assembly’s committees on May 4 held a session on explaining state management responsibility for preventing and fighting the sale of electronic cigarettes.
New tobacco products are circulating in the domestic market despite strict control by appropriate agencies. They are being hand-carried or smuggled across border gates, causing negative consequences to society.
Many experts have proposed banning electronic cigarette sales, production and advertising in Vietnam as it contains nicotine that can cause cancer and damage people’s health.
Plans have been proposed to increase tax on tobacco, ban electronic vapes and tighten online advertising of cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes may have helped about 18,000 people in England to give up smoking last year and there is no evidence of any serious side effects associated with their use for up to two years,