{"id":253042,"date":"2023-07-22T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=253042"},"modified":"2023-07-22T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T14:29:06","slug":"portal-launched-to-report-violation-of-ban-on-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/portal-launched-to-report-violation-of-ban-on-e-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal launched to report violation of ban on e-cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cPortal launched to report violation of ban on e-cigarettes\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 22nd July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union government has asked the state governments to effectively implement the Centre\u2019s ban on e-cigarettes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are e-cigarettes?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-explain-the-mechanism-behind-electronic-nicotine-delivery-system-ends-discuss-various-health-risks-associated-with-it\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>About the ban on e-cigarettes:<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, Parliament passed the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/electronic-cigarettes-act2019-centre-seeks-stricter-implementation-of-ban-on-e-cigarettes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage, and Advertisement) Act (PECA)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to curb the use and sale of e-cigarettes in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite this ban, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e-cigarettes continue to be sold on e-commerce sites even to children below 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is happening because of the weak implementation of PECA Act leading to easy availability of e-cigarettes through online, retail, convenient stores, stationery shops and near educational institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now to curb this, the Health Ministry has launched an online portal <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.violation-reporting.in\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.violation-reporting.in<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to facilitate reporting of violations under PECA Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The portal will allow faster action against any reported violations of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ban on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e-cigarettes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPortal launched to report violation of ban on e-cigarettes\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 22nd July 2023. What is the News? The Union government has asked the state governments to effectively implement the Centre\u2019s ban on e-cigarettes. What are e-cigarettes? Click Here to read About the ban&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/portal-launched-to-report-violation-of-ban-on-e-cigarettes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portal launched to report violation of ban on e-cigarettes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-253042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}