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  E-cigarettes: What are they and why are they harmful? TMC MP’s alleged use in LS sparks debate

  Lifestyle | December 11, 2025 13:09 IST

  BJP has accused a TMC MP of smoking an e-cigarette inside the Lok Sabha. With e-cigarettes banned in India, the incident has raised fresh questions. Here is what e-cigarettes are, their risks, and what the law says if someone is found with one.

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  Vaping can increase the risk of asthma in adolescents, finds study

  Health | September 19, 2023 17:01 IST

  E-cigarettes have fewer toxins than regular cigarettes but still contain a mixture of harmful chemicals and raise the risk of respiratory diseases.

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  Mumbai's famous Muchhad Paanwala owner arrested after e-cigarettes seized from shop

  Maharashtra | February 15, 2023 19:11 IST

  The Centre 2019 issued an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such “alternative” smoking devices a cognizable offence attracting jail terms and fines.

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  Tobacco & E-cigarettes may raise the risk of Covid in young healthy people, says study

  Health | February 11, 2023 11:22 IST

  COVID: Researchers found that plasma from healthy young people who smoke tobacco or vape had higher levels of furin, sCD163, and L-selectin than plasma from non-smokers.

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  E-cigarettes can cause cardiac arrhythmias, warns research

  Health | October 26, 2022 18:15 IST

  The researchers tested the cardiac impacts of inhaled e-cigarette aerosols solely from the main two ingredients in e-liquids (nicotine-free propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin) or from flavoured retail e-liquids containing nicotine.

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  E-cigarettes may alter organs, hinder body's ability to fight infections

  Health | April 13, 2022 23:07 IST

  The effects also vary depending on the e-cigarette flavour, and can influence how organs respond to infections, such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19.

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  FDA authorizes first e-cigarette, cites benefit for smokers

  World | October 13, 2021 12:38 IST

  While the products can now be legally sold in the U.S., the FDA stressed they are neither safe nor “FDA approved,” and that people who don’t smoke shouldn’t use them.

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  Vaping may up oral infections and inflammation risk

  Health | February 27, 2020 16:40 IST

  For the study, published in the journal iScience, the research team examined e-cigarette vapour and its influence on the oral microbiome and immune health.

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  E-cigarettes popular on Instagram despite anti-vaping content

  Lifestyle | January 23, 2020 14:56 IST

  Many teenagers continue to view e-cigarettes as healthier than conventional cigarettes, but vaping is associated with inflammation, reduced immune responses and breathing troubles, the study said.  

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  E-cigarette popular on Instagram despite anti-vaping content

  Health | January 23, 2020 12:12 IST

  According to the researchers, participants in the focus groups suggested that the anti-vaping campaign promoted scare tactics rather than offering guidance on how to quit vaping.

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  Prohibit use of e-cigarettes on campus, sensitise students of ill effects: UGC tells varsities

  India | January 15, 2020 14:16 IST

  The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed all universities and higher educational institutions to prohibit use of electronic cigarettes in their campuses and make students aware of its bad effects.

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  Vaping leaves e-cigarette user with rare lung scarring: Study

  World | December 05, 2019 15:40 IST

  Doctors diagnosed the patient with hard-metal pneumoconiosis, a rare form of lung disease that causes irreparable damage, persistent coughing and breathing issues.

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  Rajya Sabha takes up bill to ban e-cigarettes

  Politics | November 28, 2019 22:42 IST

  he Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Bill, 2019, seeks to replace the ordinance issued on September 18.  

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  Bill to replace ordinance banning production, sale of e-cigarettes introduced in LS

  India | November 23, 2019 7:47 IST

  A bill to ban the production, import and sale of electronic cigarettes and similar products were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Bill, 2019, seeks to replace an ordinance issued on September 18.

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  Smoking e-cigarettes can cause chronic 'popcorn lung' condition

  Health | November 21, 2019 16:23 IST

  In yet another serious health alert on e-cigarette use, researchers have documented first-ever case of a new form of damage from vaping products in a youth which is similar to "popcorn lung," a condition seen in workers exposed to food flavouring fumes in microwave popcorn factories.

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  Home Ministry asks states to enforce ban on e-cigarette

  India | November 20, 2019 14:51 IST

  The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Ordinance, 2019 was promulgated on September 18 for banning the production, sale and purchase of electronic cigarettes in the interest of public health. Sections 4 and 5 of the ordinance provide for the prohibition of e-cigarettes while sections 7 and 8 prescribe the punishment for contravention of the provisions.

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  California sues largest manufacturer of e-cigarettes

  World | November 19, 2019 10:41 IST

  E-cigarettes are facing increasing restrictions in the US, with prohibitions on the local and state level and the threat by President Donald Trump to prohibit marketing the products on the national level.

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  Parliament session: Tax, e-cigarette ordinances to be replaced

  Business | November 17, 2019 11:10 IST

  The government will also present a half-yearly review of the trends in receipts and expenditure in relation to the budget at the end of the first half of the Financial year 2018-2019 under sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, the list stated.

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  Haryana Police launches month-long drive against e-cigarettes

  India | November 10, 2019 16:21 IST

  The Haryana Police on Sunday launched a month-long special drive to keep a check on the availability and usage of e-cigarettes and all other forms of electronic nicotine delivery systems across the state, DGP Manoj Yadava said.  

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  E-cigarette promoters' body counters health ministry's arguments

  India | October 10, 2019 18:05 IST

  Ahead of the first meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare on Friday, an umbrella body of traders promoting electronic cigarettes and similar devices, shared with it a counter to the health ministry's key arguments to ban alternative smoking devices.