Alexei Kurinny, the Deputy Chairman of the Health Protection Committee in the State Duma, has stated that measures to restrict the use and sale of electronic cigarettes should be seen as reasonable rather than impossible. In an interview with Lenta.ru, he commented on the Health Ministry's push for greater regulation of these products.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health advocated for a ban on electronic cigarettes. Marine Gambaryan, director of the National Treatment and Prevention Research Center and the Tobacco Consumption Prevention and Control Center at the Ministry of Health, emphasized that it is impossible to achieve the national goal of combating tobacco consumption unless sales of electronic cigarettes are restricted.
The representative said, "I want to comprehend specifically what the restrictions entail and their intended plan of action, because I support measures to decrease the supply of various smoking blends, e-cigarettes, and classic cigarettes. However, the issue is that these measures should be reasonable.
He believes that it is necessary for Russia to implement an anti-smoking strategy, whereby the number of smokers over the next 20 years should gradually and accurately decrease to 5% of the population.
Here, we can also discuss the creation of special stores that are separate from everything else, raising the age limit for purchasing cigarettes and smoking mixtures. Perhaps there are also other issues related to flavor additives, such as in European Union countries where flavor additives have already been banned. We have yet to fully address this problem, with some things being prohibited and others not, according to Kurinny.
Earlier, Vladislav Zaslavsky, the Deputy Director of the Digital Tagging System and Product Legalization Department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, publicly opposed the ban on electronic cigarettes. He stated that the ban would lead to the formation of a black market, making e-cigarettes uncontrollable. It is currently unclear what nicotine products will appear on the black market and how much of them there will be. Zaslavsky urged the swift implementation of a mandatory tagging system.
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