New-generation cigarette use on the rise: official
The trading of new-generation tobacco products is popular around the world in recent years, leading to an increase in the rate of new-generation cigarette use, especially among the young, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan told a seminar in Hanoi on April 27.
Some new-generation tobacco products (Source: suckhoedoisong.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – The trading of new-generation tobaccoproducts is popular around the world in recent years, leading toan increase in the rate of new-generation cigarette use, especially among theyoung, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan told a seminar in Hanoi onApril 27.
He noted that the emergence of new-generation cigarettes hascreated more choices for both non-smokers and users of regular cigarettes.E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are boosting the rate of smoking.
According to a study of student health in Hanoi conducted bythe ministry’s Health Strategy and Policy Institute in 2020, 8.35% of 8th - 12th graders used e-cigarettes, and the rate stood at 12.6% among10th - 12th graders.
The studyalso showed that the rate of e-cigarette use in 34 surveyed provinces andcities was only about 0.2% in 2015 but surged 18-fold to some 3.6% in 2020. Up to8% of women and girls vaped while only 1.2% of them used regular cigarettes,Thuan went on.
The seminar in Hanoi on April 27 (Source: suckhoedoisong.vn)
A surveyof e-cigarette users indicated clear links between vaping and social evils suchas using drugs and other addictive substances. Some persons have even been hospitaliseddue to vaping illicit drugs as recorded at the Poison Control Centre of theHanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital.
The Deputy Minister cited the World Health Organisation (WHO)as saying that all tobacco products are harmful and there is increasingevidence that e-cigarettes are as harmful to community health as regular ones.
However,as the characteristics of new-generation cigarettes are different from regulartobacco products, the 2012 Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms hasyet to be applied to new-generation cigarettes, he pointed out.
At the seminar, participants discussed the trading and use ofe-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, other countries’ experience incontrolling new-generation cigarettes, and some legal issues needing attention./.
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Some new-generation tobacco products (Source: suckhoedoisong.vn) 
The seminar in Hanoi on April 27 (Source: suckhoedoisong.vn) 
