Market and legal data for the vapour sector in Cambodia

23rd March 2023: Cambodia: During a seminar yesterday on e-cigarettes and related products, education minister Kim Sethany told school managers to ramp up enforcement of the ban on e-cigs and heated tobacco, which she said were widely known by Cambodian teenagers through advertising on social media, press reports. At the same forum, Mom Kong, director of the Cambodian Movement for Health, said e-cigarettes contained nicotine and other chemicals which enter users’ brains and “can lead to chronic lung disease, stroke and heart attack”.
28th June 2022: Cambodia: The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports issued guidelines on the prevention of the use of e-cigarettes in public and private schools, local media reports. Even though such products are banned, the minister is concerned about the rising use of e-cigarettes among youth, and therefore, he asks professors and parents to inform students about the negative effects and report to local authorities the trade of such products.

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