The government opens to allow the sale of nicotine e-cigarettes in Norway – but will prohibit the use in non-smoking areas.
NORWAY: 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.
About 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.
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 by passive tobacco smoking, particularly for people with cardiovascular disease, children and pregnant women.
In addition, pointing the health authorities that some e-cigarettes are very similar to cigarettes, and that it may be difficult to tell the difference between smoke and steam in 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 know too little about the health consequences in the long term, said Deputy Secretary General of the Cancer Society, Ole Alexander Opdalshei, to TV 2.
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.”
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