Centre to snuff out ‘toxic’ e-cigarettes
What has happened?
The Centre has informed the Delhi High Court that it is in the process of issuing guidelines to ban the manufacture, import, sale and any kind of trade in e-cigarettes, dubbing it a “new emerging threat”
New addictive emerging threat
The flavouring agent in e-cigarettes was intended towards attracting the youth to a “new nicotine delivery product”
Similar marketing techniques as cigarettes
The glamorizing marketing techniques of ENDS as a less harmful product purely mimics the marketing techniques used by the cigarette industry for slim- or low-tar cigarettes and are youth-oriented
Background
A petition filed by anti-tobacco activist Seema Sehgal, through Bhuvanesh Sehgal, seeking a ban or regulating the sale and use of e-cigarettes
No law yet
There are no specific guidelines to deal with e-cigarettes
