Some (Source: suckhoedoisong.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – 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.
He noted that the emergence of new-generation cigarettes has
created more choices for both non-smokers and users of regular cigarettes.
and heated tobacco products are boosting the rate of smoking.
According to a study of student health in Hanoi conducted by
the 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% among
10th – 12th graders.
The study
also showed that the rate of e-cigarette use in 34 surveyed provinces and
cities was only about 0.2% in 2015 but surged 18-fold to some 3.6% in 2020. Up to
8% 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 survey
of e-cigarette users indicated clear links between vaping and social evils such
as using drugs and other addictive substances. Some persons have even been hospitalised
due to vaping illicit drugs as recorded at the Poison Control Centre of the
Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital.
The Deputy Minister cited the World Health Organisation (WHO)
as saying that all tobacco products are harmful and there is increasing
evidence that e-cigarettes are as harmful to community health as regular ones.
However,
as the characteristics of new-generation cigarettes are different from regular
tobacco products, the 2012 Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms has
yet to be applied to , he pointed out.
At the seminar, participants discussed the trading and use of
e-cigarettes and , other countries’ experience in
controlling new-generation cigarettes, and some legal issues needing attention./.
Source: VietnamPlus
