The nascent e-cigarettes industry on Tuesday called upon the Gujarat Government to reconsider implementing legislation it had passed in the ongoing state Assembly banning electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) devices, stating that this was regressive given the international trends and unilateral.
The illegal e-cigarette company, which transacted online, was unearthed during a joint raid by the Noida administration, the police and the district tobacco control cell around 1 pm, officials said.
The sale of e-cigarettes in India is currently unregulated and the government has been considering banning the devices.However, under the current law governing tobacco products, the government cannot ban cigarettes but only regulate their sale.The government had reportedly set up a panel to look into how to ban e-cigarettes.
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According to WHO, more than 10 million people die each year due to tobacco use in India and there are about 120 million smokers in the country.
Going tough on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), including e-cigarettes, the health ministry has proposed to classify such alternative smoking devices as "drugs" under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, in a bid to ban their manufacture, sale, distribution and import.
The severity of the damage, aspects of which occur even in the absence of nicotine, varies among popular flavours, the researchers said. Cinnamon and menthol were found to be particularly harmful.
In addition, people who vape are twice as likely to also smoke traditional cigarettes as are those who do not vape.
Banning E-cigarettes may deprive smokers of a substantially less harmful alternative.
Flavours play a critical role in attracting- and retaining- smokers into the vaping category, directly contributing to tobacco harm reduction.
The researchers also found that genes related to circadian rhythms (the body clock) were changed in mice exposed to e-cigarettes.
The research also showed that almost 90 percent of adult smokers smoked their first cigarette by the time they were 18
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