National Health Forum, an NGO working in the field of tobacco control, has requested the Centre to support Union Health Ministry’s decision to end manufacture, distribution, import and sale of e-cigarettes and ensure that such products are banned.
The NGO said that the Health Ministry’s decision against e-cigarettes and similar such products is “correct and laudable”.
“...All other Ministries must support this move Ministry of Health and ensure that such products are banned and are not included as legal products under the COTPA (Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act) or the Drugs and Cosmetics Act,” Mandakini Sinh (Managing Trustee) of National Health Forum said in a letter dated August 27 to the Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.