The World Health Organisation, WHO, has urged member nations of its global tobacco treaty to ban or regulate the use of e-cigarettes and other novel and emerging products of the tobacco industry
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The National Institutes of Health, have designated e-cigarettes as battery-powered devices that people use to heat liquid into a vapour that can be inhaled
The world health body made the call in the interest of public health on Tuesday during a virtual media briefing by the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals on the global tobacco treaty.
WHO’s global tobacco treaty is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms all people’s right to the highest standard of health.
The conference was organised ahead of the 10th Conference of Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Panama.
The Treaty Officer, Legal Affairs, at WHO FCTC, Sabina Jacazzi, said the tobacco industry’s novel and emerging products fall under the category of tobacco products
She said, “The COP has adopted decisions on novel and emerging tobacco products, including heated tobacco products, and Electronic Nicotine and Non-nicotine delivery systems.
It has clarified that HTPs are tobacco products and are subject to the WHO FCTC
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