E-cigarette Ban In India

A joint team of the CM flying squad and the district drug control department arrested a Delhi man here when he came to allegedly supply banned electronic cigarettes, said police.

Below we discuss various ways in which e-cigarettes can affect our health.

E-cigarettes are extremely harmful to our health. New studies suggest that they can inflict permanent damage to our respiratory health, here's how.

The Union Health Ministry has sent notices to 15 websites selling e-cigarettes, which is banned in India, directing them to stop advertisement and sale of the products, official sources said.

Aviation security regulator BCAS or Bureau of Civil Aviation Security Office has banned e-cigarettes and similar products on all airports and aircraft in India, according to an official document.

Rajya Sabha on Thursday took up a bill seeking a ban on electronic cigarettes, with Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan highlighting the urgency to bring an ordinance earlier saying some big tobacco firms had announced plans to enter India with a different name and would have taken the market by storm.

The impending launch of Juul e-cigarettes in India was a factor in the government's decision to ban the sale of vaping products, a top government lawyer said on Tuesday while defending the move in a Kolkata court. Last month, India banned the sale and import of electronic cigarettes, warning of a vaping "epidemic" among young people and dashing pla...

Urging people to stop using tobacco, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said e-cigarettes were banned to prevent people from a new way of intoxication.

The World Health Organization congratulated India on Thursday for its ban on electronic cigarettes, the latest evidence of a global backlash against a technology touted as safer than regular smoking.

The Government today issued an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such "alternative" smoking devices a cognizable offence attracting jail term and fine.

Amazon.com, Walmart-owned Flipkart and other e-commerce portals in the country scrambled on Thursday to pull listings of vaping products a day after the government imposed a nationwide ban on electronic cigarettes.

In an exchange on Twitter, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rebutted Kiran Mazumdar Shaw as she wondered why the ban on e-cigarettes, approved on Wednesday by the cabinet, had not been announced by the Health Minister.

E-Cigarettes Banned In India: The centre today banned e-cigarettes in India in a move which has raised questions over the side-effects and health hazards of vaping, the term used as a parlance for 'smoking' e-cigarettes.

E-cigarettes banned: The alternative tobacco product has become a major problem, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who banned production, manufacturing, transport, sale and distribution of e-cigarettes with immediate effect. Here are other effective ways to quit smoking.

E-cigarettes will be banned in India with immediate effect, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Wednesday. Envisioned as a tool to combat tobacco addiction, electronic cigarettes and other vaping products have become a major problem and increase the risk of children taking up smoking, she said.

A joint team of the CM flying squad and the district drug control department arrested a Delhi man here when he came to allegedly supply banned electronic cigarettes, said police.

Below we discuss various ways in which e-cigarettes can affect our health.

E-cigarettes are extremely harmful to our health. New studies suggest that they can inflict permanent damage to our respiratory health, here's how.

The Union Health Ministry has sent notices to 15 websites selling e-cigarettes, which is banned in India, directing them to stop advertisement and sale of the products, official sources said.

Aviation security regulator BCAS or Bureau of Civil Aviation Security Office has banned e-cigarettes and similar products on all airports and aircraft in India, according to an official document.

Rajya Sabha on Thursday took up a bill seeking a ban on electronic cigarettes, with Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan highlighting the urgency to bring an ordinance earlier saying some big tobacco firms had announced plans to enter India with a different name and would have taken the market by storm.

The impending launch of Juul e-cigarettes in India was a factor in the government's decision to ban the sale of vaping products, a top government lawyer said on Tuesday while defending the move in a Kolkata court. Last month, India banned the sale and import of electronic cigarettes, warning of a vaping "epidemic" among young people and dashing pla...

Urging people to stop using tobacco, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said e-cigarettes were banned to prevent people from a new way of intoxication.

The World Health Organization congratulated India on Thursday for its ban on electronic cigarettes, the latest evidence of a global backlash against a technology touted as safer than regular smoking.

The Government today issued an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such "alternative" smoking devices a cognizable offence attracting jail term and fine.

Amazon.com, Walmart-owned Flipkart and other e-commerce portals in the country scrambled on Thursday to pull listings of vaping products a day after the government imposed a nationwide ban on electronic cigarettes.

In an exchange on Twitter, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rebutted Kiran Mazumdar Shaw as she wondered why the ban on e-cigarettes, approved on Wednesday by the cabinet, had not been announced by the Health Minister.

E-Cigarettes Banned In India: The centre today banned e-cigarettes in India in a move which has raised questions over the side-effects and health hazards of vaping, the term used as a parlance for 'smoking' e-cigarettes.

E-cigarettes banned: The alternative tobacco product has become a major problem, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who banned production, manufacturing, transport, sale and distribution of e-cigarettes with immediate effect. Here are other effective ways to quit smoking.

E-cigarettes will be banned in India with immediate effect, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Wednesday. Envisioned as a tool to combat tobacco addiction, electronic cigarettes and other vaping products have become a major problem and increase the risk of children taking up smoking, she said.