The Ministry of Health (MoH) has demanded enhancing communications along with examination and settlement of the purchase, sale, and trading of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, which haven’t been licensed in Vietnam.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministryof Health (MoH) has demanded enhancing communications along with examinationand settlement of the purchase, sale, and trading of e-cigarettes and heatedtobacco products, which haven’t been licensed in Vietnam.
The MoH recently sent a documentto the provincial-level People’s Committees nationwide, the Ministry ofEducation and Training, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry ofInformation and Communications, and the Ministry of Public Security to ask forincreasing communications about the harms of electronic nicotine delivery systems (also called e-cigarettes), heated tobacco products, and shisha. It also calledfor boosting examination and settlement.
Though Vietnam hasn’tpermitted the import, trading, or circulation of those products, the acts arebecoming popular, especially on the Internet, the MoH said, pointing out thatwith diverse designs and flavours of e-cigarettes, vaping is rising fast in thecountry, particularly among students.
It cited the 2019 statisticsfrom the World Health Organisation (WHO) as showing that 2.6% of the studentsaged 15 - 17 in Vietnam vaped. A 2022 survey also revealed 3.5% of those aged13 - 15 used e-cigarettes.
Healthcare establishmentsand the media have reported many cases of students poisoned with nicotine andliquids used in those products.
Apart from the harms similarto regular cigarettes’, the use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products alsoposes the risk of causing social evils, especially the crimes related to drugs and other addictive substances, accordingto the MoH./.
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Some e-cigarette products (Photo: AFP/VNA) 
