In India E-Cigarette has been allowed thinking it as a safe method to reduce smoking of bidi and cigarette but they do not remove nicotine dependency completely. So International experts have called on the Health Ministry to change its stand on electronic cigarettes and legalise safer alternatives to tobacco products available in India. In a recent advisory, the Health Ministry had asked the states and Union territories to ban the use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS).
ENDS includes e-cigarettes, heat-not-burn devices, vape, e-sheesha, e-nicotine-flavoured hookah and other devices that enable nicotine delivery. The ministry has adopted a policy on vaping that will harm the health of millions of Indians and protect and entrench smoking, the former president of the International Harm Reduction Association, said. Countries that aim to eradicate tobacco use usually get terrible…
