Consumers will thus avoid having to buy electronic cigarettes with nicotine on the net, if the Conservatives and the Progress Party gets what they want.
Approximately 50,000 Norwegians smoke today e-cigarettes, according to a note about the tobacco directive as Tuesday to be sent out for consultation. Many people use it as an aid for quitting with regular cigarettes.
See also: WHO to fight against e-cigarettes
Same smoking
But the government will put an end to that e-cigarette smokers can steam on their nozzles in places where smoking ban applies. Today it is up to the owner of the premises to allow or prohibit smoking of e-cigarettes.
The background is a report from the Public Health showing that the nicotine-related dangers of passive damping is the same as for passive tobacco smoking especially for people with cardiovascular disease, children and pregnant women.
In addition, health authorities point that some e-cigarettes are very similar to cigarettes, and that it can be difficult to tell the difference between smoke and vapor a local, making regulatory authority’s work more difficult.
Cancer Society is wary to allow e-cigarettes with nicotine, partly because it can create nicotine addiction.
– And we also know little about health consequences in the long term, said Deputy Secretary General of the Cancer Society, Ole Alexander Opdalshei, to TV 2.
See also: Passive smoking by e-cigarettes provide health risk
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Larger warnings
Meanwhile, stricter rules on labeling of tobacco products. Hereafter warnings cover half of the surface of packs of cigarettes, rolling tobacco and water pipe tobacco. For other tobacco products shall warning covering one third of the surface.
In addition to the usual warning that smoking kills, will all smoking tobacco hereinafter also indicated that “tobacco smoke contains over 70 carcinogen.”
See also: Belief in a tobacco world by 2040
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