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Canada is taking the first steps toward much-desired federal regulation of e-cigarettes with the release of a parliamentary committee report making detailed recommendations on the shape of national law.
Canada’s third-largest province is poised to introduce e-cigarette rules including a public vaping ban, as provincial governments across the country move to cut across the regulatory confusion created by an uncertain federal position.
One of the main architects of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has expressed his strong support for e-cigarettes, starkly separating himself from the position adopted by the FCTC at its Moscow summit last year.
Authorities in Mexico have seized nearly 10,000 e-cigarette “devices and accessories”, according to reports.
The Chinese government could put e-cigs into its regulatory framework for tobacco, an official has said.
Canadian vapers share many demographic characteristics with their UK counterparts, a new survey suggests.
Regulation is holding the Australasian e-cigarette market far behind other regions.
The Indian state of Punjab has reiterated its ban on the manufacturing and sale of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes.
The two largest countries in the world are preparing to launch strict anti-tobacco regulation which could open up huge markets for e-cigarettes or squash them at a hardly-developed stage.
Legislators in Canada’s most populous province are considering a comprehensive e-cig bill which would prohibit vaping in public enclosed spaces, limit in-store marketing, forbid sale to minors, and make flavour bans possible.
Public pressure has led to an about-face on e-liquid flavours by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
India’s national health minister has called for an outright ban on e-cigarettes.
The final recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on e-cigarettes allow for a wide range of regulatory regimes but single out advertising as a prime candidate for controls, as expected, as well as hinting at the need for public place usage restrictions.
Queensland is set to become the first state in Australia subjecting e-cigarettes to the same laws as conventional tobacco products.
Thailand’s government is planning to clamp down harder on the import of e-cigarettes, seeking to close potential loopholes in the products’ confusing legal situation.
Leading European public health figures have this week spoken out against reports to the World Health Organization (WHO) which seem likely to push the international body toward recommending strict regulation of e-cigarettes.
India’s main tobacco cigarette supplier has launched its first e-cig in two major cities, with the promise of a national rollout to come.
India’s dominant tobacco company is encouraging the government to develop policy on e-cigarettes, and is ready to bring products to market once a regulatory framework is in place, its chairman has said.
The director of public health for Canada’s second-largest city has called for national regulation specifically covering e-cigarettes, which would clarify the country’s confusing mixture of proclaimed prohibition and actual tolerance.
An Australian e-cigarette retailer is attempting to crowd-fund an appeal after a court ruled that the e-cigarettes the company sold resembled conventional cigarettes – violating Australia’s Tobacco Products Control Act of 2006.
India should prohibit e-cigarettes because it cannot effectively enforce regulation of them and its young population is vulnerable to the industry’s enticements, according to two health officials.
Efforts to cut tobacco use in Russia could lead to an increase in vaping for the country ranked the world’s second in tobacco consumption.
Thailand is seeking to formally regulate e-cigarettes, with some calling for a complete prohibition, amid concerns that existing tobacco legislation is inadequate for the purpose and that an illegal market is flourishing.
Tightened rules on smoking in casinos in the Chinese gambling capital of Macau raise the question of whether China could consider e-cigarettes to be tobacco products, as its nationwide controls on smoking gradually gain momentum.
Authorities in Taiwan have reiterated that the sale, import and manufacture of unapproved e-cigarettes is illegal in the country, and urged citizens to report vapers so that dealers can be tracked down – even though personal possession and use is permitted.
An Indian government ministry is interpreting a ban on tobacco advertising as extending to e-cigarettes too, raising further questions over how one of the world’s biggest markets will regulate the products.
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