Hong Kong to impose full ban on e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products
The move will be announced in Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s policy address on Wednesday, in an unexpected U-turn after the government previously proposed to only restrict the sale of new tobacco products to minors
Hong Kong is set to impose a complete ban on e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products in an unexpected U-turn by the government, which had previously proposed only to restrict their sale to minors.
Sources told the Post the ban would cover electronic cigarettes as well as other new tobacco alternatives such as heat-not-burn products and herbal cigarettes.
Until now, the government had committed only to regulating e-cigarettes in the same way as conventional tobacco products, but health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee had left the door open for “more stringent measures” depending on what medical evidence had to say about health effects.
